Chapter 422: The Dispute over Evaluation Criteria
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That night, Xiao Fei got the list of winners of the preliminary round of this New Concept Essay Competition.
said that it was the preliminary round, but in fact, the awards had almost been evaluated, and the first and second prizes had been listed on the list.
Sure enough, he saw the name "Han Han" in the list of winners of the first prize in Group B.
Although the competition was held a year in advance, Han Han still participated in this first competition, and it seems that the development of history is really supported by a kind of inertia.
Xiao Fei sighed.
The new concept is divided into three categories: A, B and C.
The contestants in Group A are the junior or sophomore students of the current year of high school, and if the contestants in this group can obtain excellent results, they can be directly admitted to prestigious schools with reduced scores or even without examination. This is also the significance of Peking University and Tsinghua University.
Well! It can be said that the new concept has been an ambitious essay competition from the beginning, and the goal is to go towards the goal of the language olympiad.
Group B is attended by senior 1 and junior high school students.
Group C is aimed at young people under the age of 30.
This year's semi-finals are almost a formality, and the key role is still the manuscripts sent by the previous contestants. This is the same as in the previous life.
Of course, there will be certain problems with such awards.
Xiao Fei looked at Han Han's entries again, and they were "Seeking Treatment" and "Bookstore". Xiao Fei had read these two articles in his previous life.
At this time, Han Han was only 15 years old, and he was able to write heavy essays at a young age, and he could have his own feelings and thoughts, which was quite remarkable.
When Xiao Fei saw the name Han Han, he thought of another question.
In his previous life, Han Han seemed to have won the first prize in the first New Concept Essay Contest through a make-up competition.
And the reason why he wanted to make up the match was because the organizing committee of the competition forgot to notify Han Han to participate in the semi-finals on the spot, and when he remembered it, he found Han Han who had been missed.
Thereupon. The organizing committee had to initiate a discussion: what should be done about this matter?
The final result of the discussion was to give Han Han a chance to participate in the rematch and let him accept the rematch alone.
According to relevant records, Han Han was left alone in the room. The judge put a cup full of water in front of him, and then threw a piece of paper in the cup and asked him to write an essay based on it.
So there is the famous "Peep in the Cup" masterpiece.
Han Han has attracted the attention of the outside world, and it is said that this article has played a considerable role.
So. In this life, will it repeat the mistakes of the previous life?
Xiao Fei just thought about it, and didn't take this matter to heart.
This night, after dinner, the organizing committee held a review meeting. The meeting was held in the large conference room of the hotel, and dozens of professors and writers sat around to discuss the evaluation criteria for the entries.
Xiao Fei, as a junior character, didn't plan to express any of his high opinions, just sat on the side and put on a gesture of listening.
At this meeting. The participants were divided into two groups and had a-for-tat discussion.
As a "new concept essay contest", if you set detailed award criteria and circle the article with rules and regulations, it will be too sad.
This group of people advocates that a good article is a good article at a glance, and a good article can stand the test of scrutiny, so it is better for all the judges to comment on each article and give a co-ordinated score. Finally, add everyone's scores together and average them together, which is the final score of this article.
Only by reviewing in this way can absolute fairness be ensured.
The other group firmly advocates that a good article must have its good standards, such as the richness of words and sentences, the breadth of quotations, the novelty of the angle of writing, the image of the characters, etc., which can be accurately defined by fine standards and the level of composition.
There are only the standards of precision science. in order to ensure the fairness of the competition.
It is obviously extremely unreasonable to judge the entries solely on the basis of the judges' personal likes and dislikes.
Moreover, if all the judges of each article have to see it, it will be too labor-intensive, which will greatly slow down the progress of the review, and make the judges extremely tired and tired.
It is advocated that there should be no clear evaluation criteria. Most of them were radical pedagogical reformers and writers.
Most of the experts in composition education in universities who advocate clarifying the evaluation criteria are the experts.
The two sides turned over and over, you sang and I appeared, arguing red-faced, but in the end, no one could convince anyone.
At this time, Dai Houying, who advocated abandoning the evaluation criteria, saw Xiao Fei who was silently leaning on the back of the chair, and said to him: "Xiao Fei, let's talk about it too, do you think that a clear standard is needed to judge the quality of an article?" β
"Yes, Xiao Fei, you are still a student and have written a lot of test-taking essays, do you think it is better for the examiner to judge the essay by his own intuition, or to have a clear standard?" Cao Zizheng also spoke.
The two groups of people had been arguing for a long time, and they were both a little dry-mouthed, so they temporarily stopped the dispute between their tongues and tongues, and looked at Xiao Fei one after another while replenishing their water.
With so many eyes condensed on himself, Xiao Fei was quite helpless.
It seems that it is impossible to keep a low profile.
It's impossible to be neutral.
You have to be clear about your attitude and choose a side.
"Teacher Dai, Teacher Cao, I think what you said is very reasonable...... Xiao Fei looked at Dai Houying and then at Cao Zizheng, and said with a smile.
"Young man, it's not good to ride on the wall, black is black, white is white, you can't tell the difference between black and white, right?" Cao Zizheng said with a straight face.
"Tell me your own opinion, Xiao Fei, I think you must have your own opinion." Dai Houying also said.
It seems that if you don't express your own views and don't choose sides, it's really not good.
"I think the judging criteria should be clear, and the clearer the criteria, the more fair and just it will be as the most authoritative essay contest!" Xiao Fei said.
Xiao Fei's words are actually not new.
When the two groups of people were arguing just now, someone had already said that it had been talked about more than once.
"However, the good and bad of an article sometimes transcend all standards, it brings people a subtle feeling, if the standards are too many and too complicated, isn't it to imprison the contestants' talents?" Someone immediately retorted.
"What is the 'New Concept Essay Contest'? Emphasis on nature is a new word, where is the new embodiment? In my opinion, this new should emphasize the law of nature, leave all the laws of composition behind, and let talents and inspiration bloom like wild flowers, like the breeze coming and going freely, like a spring and waterfall to vent homeopathically. Dai Houying expounded his point of view very seriously, and also tried to convince Xiao Fei.
"Teacher Dai, what you are talking about is the method of composition; Moreover, you are talking about the highest level of writing, which is not applicable to ordinary people, for the vast majority of Chinese people, learning to write essays is for real-life applications, such as writing a letter and writing an official document or something, all of which require a little writing foundation; For these people, it is good to let them practice according to a certain method of composition, and be able to write fluent and speechless sentences. β
"And if everyone pays attention to the law of nature in the process of learning to write, I think it will make most people confused, after all, this world is already a highly regulated world, there are rules to act, and there are no rules then it can only cause chaos."
"Also, Mr. Dai, you have confused the concepts of evaluation criteria and essay methods. For example, our New Concept Essay Contest is to select talented teenagers, and of course, we must be strict with them in terms of writing requirements, so that they can innovate in writing and write freely. β
"You can be as free as you can when you write, but what about when you judge? Of course, it is my opinion that the fairness of the competition can be better reflected by formulating detailed and scientific evaluation criteria. β
Although he was very close to Dai Houying, Xiao Fei couldn't help but argue with her.
Of course, he knew that she was the kind of open-minded and cheerful character, and would never be angry because he disagreed with her.
Listening to this tirade, the judges who advocated a clear evaluation criteria nodded frequently.
Xiao Fei is right, that's the principle, writing can be unbridled, under the domination of inspiration, breaking the trap of writing, can you write a good article, but what? It would be too subjective to judge entries in an essay contest in the same way! Mistakes will be made! Cao Zizheng nodded appreciatively.
After listening to Xiao Fei's words, Dai Houying was also thoughtful, and she also had an epiphany that her thinking seemed to be biased.
But how do you set the most reasonable judging criteria? If you want to refine the criteria for judging the merits of articles, I'm afraid it's not so easy, right? A young professor in his thirties looked at Xiao Fei with sharp eyes and asked.
Xiao Fei smiled: "It's also very simple, let me give you an example." β
"In narrative and fiction texts, portrait description is a basic skill, how to judge the quality of portrait description? I think it's possible to divide them into one to six. β
Xiao Fei began to talk about these six levels: the first level, there is no awareness of portrait description at all, and can only use some empty clichΓ©s to describe portraits, which has no effect on the portrayal of characters and the progress of the article, and even has a negative effect; The second level is to be able to naturally use portrait skills to write about the personality of the character, but the fit with the identity and mentality of the character is too poor, which does not help to create a vivid character image, and it does not help the performance of the theme of the article......
Xiao Fei explained in detail the six evaluation criteria for "portrait description".
Finally, he said: "Wouldn't it be easier to break down the various aspects of an article and formulate a series of criteria in this form?" β
After Xiao Fei finished speaking, everyone began to applaud warmly.
Meng Lao nodded and said, "Xiao Fei said it very well, so let's formulate detailed evaluation criteria according to his ideas." β
This sentence is the final decision. (To be continued.) )