Design of Task Framework and Rating Scale for Academic Performance Evaluation of Higher Vocational Courses
Higher vocational education focuses on cultivating vocational and application-oriented high-quality technical and skilled talents.Teaching emphasis is placed on ability oriented and work task situations and imparting"functional knowledge".It is more suitable to use performance evaluation to mea-sure students'cognitive and reasoning skills,as well as their ability to apply knowledge to solve practical and meaningful problems.The core of performance evaluation design includes the design of evaluation tasks and rating scales.The evaluation task design framework includes thematic content,actions or practices,con-text and meanings to effectively stimulate students to demonstrate their acquisition of functional knowledge.The scoring scale design framework includes scoring indicators,indicator weights,quality level,level scores,and standard descriptions,which can serve as a reference for the specific steps of performance-based evaluation design,ultimately promoting better educational effects in higher vocational education cur-riculum teaching practice.