Issue55【0806G-Sunbird小组】第6次作业

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终于又开始写issue了，这个是第二篇Issue，离上一篇都不知道有多久了。。唉唉。。。

麻烦大家帮我看看吧，事例都没有找到，实在是不知道这个怎么分析。。。谢谢了。。。

继续努力中。。。。

Issue 55
Competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning at all levels of education.

Date: Nov.28, 2007     Time: 65min     Words: 468

Should competition be defined as the limitation of the quality of learning throughout the whole process?  Frankly speaking, when competition gets involved with the natural evolutions, it would more frequently be treated as a propellant rather than an obstacle. What will possibly determine the character of this competitive activity during a learning experience, as far as I consider, should the criteria be chose for the evaluation system.

If the evaluation system of learning process was more inclined to a judgment of points and scores, then competition for high grades would undoubtedly follow the way of comparing the abilities of reciting or imitating a series of accomplished theories and technologies.  This is acceptable when it is put forward to the lower level of education system, as to the education regulations taken by the primary schools or middle schools. Easy to say, this time, competition is the impulse for transferring founded theories and technologies.  Since the main purpose of the pre-university education is much more tended to the learning phases to prepare for basic skills and background knowledge, it is quite necessary to undertake an effective judgment of learning efficacies, under which circumstances the score-standard system could be probably the most suitable method to give out a fair result.   Thus, the principle of "better scores could indicate a better qualified background for a further study in a more profound area" is effective when it is put into practice.

However, things change when they are taken with other prerequisite.  Comparing with the former learning process in middle schools or primary schools, students are being trained to be more innovative and explorative when facing to a new problem.  At this time, when judgment once again encounter the learning process, competitions are carried out not among the groups of discovered knowledge but the unknown area, which call for the spirit of discovering and innovating rather than imitating.  Therefore, competition with a score-determined system would be invalidated, while the principle will most probably switch to the judgment of capabilities.

Accordingly, whether competition should be defined as a propellant or an obstacle throughout a learning process would be more or less determined by the prerequisite that will be taken. Using an unpairewised judgment system to evaluate the function of competition should never be accepted.  As it is always the truth that, competition could not only inspire the potentials, but also the interests of searching for unknown world, both of which are taken as the basis of social development.

In conclusion, it is not to say that competition for high grades inhibits the quality of learning at all levels, but rather to indicate that competition should be the active element that propel the progress of education, or even scientific research, when a pairwised criteria corresponds to a certain learning process is properly adopted.