The educational process as an imitation

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The article uses materials of Alexander Ivanov, a former professor of PetrSU.

The main tradition of the Soviet school is to teach everyone! Previously, a student had to pass final exams in eight disciplines in order to get a certificate of secondary education. The main purpose of exams is to measure the level of knowledge, and the main task is to orient the student to learn, and the teacher to teach. Thus, everyone was interested in the high quality of the students' knowledge.

To enter the university, it was necessary to pass exams separately and preparation for them was the concern of the applicant himself. The universities themselves set the required level of knowledge for admission.

The Unified State Exam has combined the two functions of the final and introductory examinations. And instead of making it easier to enroll in a university, he actually eliminated secondary education in the country.

Currently, what is happening at school can hardly be called an educational process, the word imitation is suitable here! The schools are now imitating the education process.

With the beginning of the school year, the whole country begins to prepare for passing a single exam as for a war! Children are trained to solve tasks of the same type, simply by training their memory. But that's not the point.

Of the twelve current USEs, only two are required for obtaining a certificate of secondary education - Russian and basic mathematics. The rest of the exams are taken by schoolchildren on a voluntary basis and practically only when they are needed for admission to a university (that is, these are admission tests in their pure form). Thus, the student throws all his strength into preparing for the exam, and other subjects are regarded as an unnecessary burden. Suppose a student chooses to take the Unified State Exam in biology and chemistry, then all other subjects (physics, social studies, history, literature, etc.), in principle, he does not need, he may not even go to them. Another chooses history and social studies, and then the rest of the subjects can be given up. Why are they needed if there is no need to take the Unified State Exam on them. In such a system, the teacher gets complete freedom not to pay attention to children who are not interested in his subject (and working with laggards is the most unpleasant burden for a teacher), and the student is free not to learn. Note that in the conditions of such "freedom" it becomes possible not to teach anyone at all, but only to imitate the educational process.

Now there are 2 USEs in mathematics - basic and specialized. All the guys take the basic exam, there are 20 tasks in it, if you solve at least 7 of them correctly, you get a minimum passing score, it is enough to get a school leaving certificate and to enter a university. What are the tasks there ?! Anyone can find them on the Internet:

1. Find the value of the expression (6, 7-3, 2) 2, 4
2. The USE in physics was taken by 25 school graduates, which is one third of the total number of graduates. How many graduates of this school did not pass physics exam?
3. Find m from the equality F = ma if F = 84 and a = 12.
4. Find S from the equality S = v ₀ t + at ²/ 2 if v ₀ = 6, t = 2, a = −2.

Find the value of the expression (2 · √13− 1) · (2 · √13 + 1).

1. A jar of yogurt costs 14 rubles 60 kopecks. What is the largest number of jars of yogurt you can buy for 100 rubles?
2. Find the root of the equation log₂(x - 3) = 6.
3. Out of every 100 bulbs on sale, on average 3 are faulty. What is the likelihood that a light bulb randomly selected in a store turns out to be working?
4. Vitya is taller than Kolya, but lower than Masha. Anya is not taller than Viti. Select the statements that are true under the specified conditions.

a) Masha is the tallest of these four people.

b) Anya and Masha are of the same height.

c) Vitya and Kolya are of the same height.

d) Kolya is lower than Masha.

10) Find a three-digit number, the sum of the digits of which is 20, and the sum of the squares of the digits is divisible by 3, but not divisible by 9. In your answer, write any one such number.

Of the 20 tasks of the basic exam, ten are like that. The rest are a little more complicated, but no one needs them: to obtain a certificate, it is enough to solve 7, with a margin - 10.

This shows that the level of state attestation in mathematics in grade 11 practically does not go beyond the primary school. If a student knows the multiplication table, division, addition, subtraction (and this is studied in elementary school), then he can easily pass the exam in mathematics in grade 11! The test threshold for the Unified State Exam in the Russian language is similar: it is completely overcome by the average graduate of elementary school.

For comparison, let's see the USE in physics, the minimum passing score in 2017 is 36, to overcome the threshold it is necessary to correctly solve the first 10 tasks out of 32. The first 10 tasks are the level of 7-8 grade of the school physics course. Accordingly, if a student wants to score more than the minimum passing grade (he plans to go to the budget), then he needs to know the physics course of at least grade 9. But such knowledge, in any case, will not be enough for studying at a university. Examples of physics assignments can be found on the Internet.

Decrease in the level of knowledge (level of training) - forces the minimum passing score to decrease every year! Maybe in the end it will be reduced to zero?

Another important point is that in the senior grades (10-11) there are guys with different egotistical interests (someone goes to honey, someone to an engineer, someone to a philologist, etc.), respectively, to prepare them within the same class to the exam is impossible. The teacher goes through the program with them, realizing that no one needs it, even those who will take the Unified State Exam in their subject, because preparation for the Unified State Exam requires different technologies.

The USE system actually eliminated secondary education in its former understanding, when the graduate was required to know all the subjects of the school curriculum.

Statistics and research show a rapid decline in the knowledge of schoolchildren!

According to the results of the Unified State Exam-2012, about 14% of graduates practically did not take anything out of the secondary school mathematics course (see [1] IV Yashchenko, AV Semenov, IR Vysotsky. Methodological recommendations on some aspects of improving the teaching of mathematics FIPI. 2014.) In 2014, there were almost 25% of such schoolchildren, as announced by the head of Rosobrnadzor S. Kravtsov at the collegium of the Ministry of Education and Science on October 1, 2014 (see OGE-2014 showed that among ninth-graders this indicator varied from 30 to 50 % depending on the region (see the above-mentioned work [1] by I. Yashchenko and others).

In the fall of 2014, the National Study of the Quality of Education (NIKO) in mathematics in grades 5-7 was conducted for the first time. The organizer and head of NIKO I. Yashchenko said that in the 7th grade, 50% of the students had already dropped out of the educational process (simply put, they do not perceive mathematics), and the general results of the seventh graders in solving elementary problems are worse than those of the 5th grade students. An unthinkable phenomenon when the level of knowledge falls as a result of training!

Modern textbooks should not be ignored either! If earlier textbooks were written by a creative team, which included professors, candidates of sciences, graduate students, associate professors, students. Then the written textbook was tested in practice for several years, and only after that it was published. But now there is no such thing, textbooks are written by all who are not lazy. Hence, there are so many errors, typos and just utter nonsense - non-existent objects and phenomena in fact.

Here are some examples taken from the article (Sabotage in the field of education is taking on an alarming scale):

Assignment in the Russian language: read the dialogue and place the punctuation marks: Syapala Kalusha on the cuff and respected Lyapupa - Oee Lyapa Kako bloopers uncooked and untidy - Nettyuynye - Nettyuynye. (What did the children learn from this dialogue?)

Fundamentals of Legal Knowledge: Assignment: Bobrov beat Losev a piece of concrete on her head, strangled her with a metal wire, cut her veins, following orders Maltseva kill quickly. However, Loseva's death did not come. After that Bobrov said: "That's it, I can't take it anymore" and called an ambulance. Was there a voluntary refusal? Should Bobrov be criminally liable?

Fifth Grade Mathematics Textbook Latotina and Chebotarevsky … Here are some tasks: Primazische found 96 shkledulok in the field. And Primazyonok found 64 shkledulki. How many more shkledulok did Primazische find than Primazyonok? Problem: Dad, mom and older sisters are having dinner, and younger brother Vassenka sits under the table and saws the table leg at a speed of 3 cm per minute. In how many minutes will the dinner end if the table leg is 9 cm thick?

Etc.

Now the Ministry of Education proposes to remove Russian classics from the literature program, children do not understand them. Of course, after such assignments, it is simply impossible to perceive Tolstoy and Pushkin! And neither the children are to blame that they do not understand the beautiful Russian language, and not the teachers, but the test system.

The idea of import substitution (the course of import substitution has been declared in Russia since 2014, after the introduction of mutual sanctions by Russia and the Western countries) - now even sounds absurd! In fact, children leave school with the level of knowledge of a secondary school (if not an elementary one)! They go to a university, and are faced with a problem: they cannot study, they do not know how, there is simply not enough knowledge. As a result, both sides have to adjust in the conditions of the university! And it turns out "we all did not learn much, something and somehow."

The Ministry of Education and Science and all senior officials say that a modern student is able to determine for himself what subjects and in what volume to teach him. The modern student himself can choose the trajectory of his development! But how can a student choose if there is no choice. If he has a vague idea of physics, chemistry, biology, literature, etc. He has no clear logic in his head, no consistency, what follows from what, no integral picture of the world.

The introduction of the USE reduced all education in the country - to the illusion of education! Now our education, especially higher education, is being saved by the Olympiads for schoolchildren! At present, there are about a hundred of them in the country, and children are attracted to them, starting from the 5th grade. In terms of the form, the final rounds of these Olympiads are classic entrance exams, which are conducted by university professors without CCTV cameras, metal detectors and other attributes of the Unified State Exam. The Olympiads provide schoolchildren with other values that correspond to our educational traditions.

Maybe it's time to openly say that the Unified State Exam is a real disaster for Russia. That there is no education in Russia! And it's worth really thinking about the return of the Soviet education system!

The article uses materials by A. V. Ivanova "Unified State Exam or Education - there is no third option":