In a presentation sent to a scientific conference: “The current situation of achievement disorder in education: Solutions to prevent and eventually eliminate achievement disorder in education ” recently in Hanoi, Dr. Ta Quang Dam – MSc. Do Thi Minh Nguyet, Head of the Department of Psychology, Academy of Politics analyzed the causes of Achievement Disease in education.
Easy to have false illusions
Analysis of Achievement Disease in education Dr. Ta Quang Dam – Master Do Thi Minh Nguyet affirmed: The disease of achievement in education produces fake and deceitful products that hide low quality with high-quality labels. A society that wants to develop needs talented people, and talented people really have real ability.
The disease of achievement in education makes people only consider weight without substance. The disease of achievement in education makes people easily deceive Gradually, their personality will degenerate and they will lose their good moral values.
That is why Dr. Ta Quang Dam believes that negative manifestations and disease of achievement in Education has been eroding the basic principles of education and causing long-term harm to society.
The causes of this “disease” are many, but Dr. Ta Quang Dam mentioned it. to 4 basic reasons:
First due to pressure from “standard schools”
Wanting to achieve the title of school According to national standards, schools must meet many specific criteria prescribed by the Ministry of Education and Training. It is noteworthy that the majority of schools recognized to meet national standards (especially schools in urban areas) are often invested in good facilities, so there will be quite a number of students applying to study. That leads to great pressure on schools and there has been a situation where they strive to achieve standard schools at all costs and then “run for school” and “run for class”.
As a result, many schools are recognized as meeting standards, but there are classes where the number of students/classrooms are too crowded and cramped, greatly affecting the quality of teaching and learning.
In particular, regulations control the rate of repeating grades and then pressure to “keep standard” in order not to “fail the standard” forcing schools and teachers to find every way to try to “keep the standard”, thereby creating great pressure on students to strive for learning and a situation in which some schools in many where “students sit in the wrong class” are not even allowed to repeat grades.
The pressure on standard schools also comes from many other activities besides the specific educational activities that national standard schools are forced to participate in. There are many movements organized by higher levels, especially key movements such as online English Math competition, clean notebooks and beautiful handwriting at all levels, youth creativity competition… The pressure of achievement, the pressure of the national standard school label No one else has to suffer but the teachers, students and their families.
Second due to pride in fame
Usually from pride in fame comes the “disease” of achievement and from achievement Acquiring deceit further promotes the development of fame and glory. The disease of educational achievement is the reverse of educational achievement.
It is fake educational achievement, virtual achievement, disguised achievement, inflated achievements; or it may be a “half-real” achievement, but it is achieved by individuals and collectives not due to their efforts in competition, but to be achieved at all costs through the cooperation between “interest groups”. .
Achievement disease in education is also known as form disease. There are schools that, because of their achievements, always try to focus on training good students, creating favorable conditions for them to have time to focus on studying the subjects they take exams in order to achieve high results and bring honor to the school, while other subjects are completed. No need to invest time and effort in studying.
Third due to jealousy and anger
Achievement disease In education, there is a deep root in a bad human habit: the habit of jealousy, like “chickens are angry at each other’s crows”. Nowadays, as long as there is a good achievement, people regardless of everything run after virtual achievements with things that are not true. Seeing individuals in other units set an example, their own units also want to be like that.
But instead of focusing on improving the quality of education, they burn through the stage of polishing the formality to gain recognition. honors. Therefore, organizations and individuals only care about making their notebook reports clean and beautiful. Then we need to worry about how to complete all the above plan targets.
Recognizing the consequences of achievement disease in social education, it is necessary to promote the work of eliminating it. Leadership teams at all levels need to more actively inspect and supervise the activities of affiliated organizations and individuals and have a system of scientific management sanctions to ensure deterrence.
Fourth due to competitive pressure
In a society, rewards and punishments always exist in parallel because it will help individuals and collectives. constantly strive to achieve good results. Achievements are good results that each individual or group has achieved after their best efforts.
As society develops more and more, achievements are something worth recognizing. receive. Achievement is a measure of human proficiency in all fields, but because it is a measure, it has caused an extremely dangerous downside. It is because of the achievements that schools compete to achieve at all costs.
Overload in professional labor, especially management style, creates a lot of pressure combined with achievement disease in education. Education is like a “racetrack” that has become the fear and obsession of the vast majority of teachers today.
The entire current education system is like a racetrack where the destination is everything. titles associated with individuals and groups. The pressure of formal competition makes people pay more attention to the outside than the core, leading to the reversal of the value ladder, such as teaching vegetarianism to learn by rote, buying points to run in school, running on…
Research on Achievement Disease by Prof. Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Phu, Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Psychological and Educational Sciences.
Turning all good values upside down
According to Dr. Ta Quang Dam, the above causes of achievement in education have turned all values upside down. Good governance has destroyed the nation’s cultural traditions. That root causes the disease of falsehood and deception in education for personal gain. Its harm is very serious, even especially serious, to the foundation education in the country.
To find a cure for the disease of achievement in education, according to Dr. Ta Quang Dam, it is necessary to promote the role of key officials, especially those in charge The head plays a decisive role in combating the disease of achievement in education.
In fact, key staff, especially the head of the school education management agency, must be the one to determine way to escape the mindset of chasing target scores.
“If the head and key staff of an industry or educational institution are like a chief architect, they only focus on the scores. The number of achievements is very difficult for people below to change successfully. Therefore, choosing the head of a team of key officials must truly be a “public servant” of the people with a sense of dedication to serving the people, working in accordance with the principles of discipline, reason and love” – Dr. Ta Quang Dam emphasized.
In addition, Dr. Ta Quang Dam said that it is very necessary for the integrity and objectivity of the authorities in reviewing and evaluating to decide to reward the right achievements. Real educational achievements of agencies and units promptly detect “false” achievements – manifestations of achievement disease.
At the same time, rigor and resoluteness in inspection work are also needed. education inspection; In which, pay close attention to the role of specialized departments responsible for inspection and supervision of the education sector.
In addition, avoid ostentation of formality in emulation work and resolutely eliminate fraudulent manifestations of “running for achievements” “running for rewards” “running for titles”; Strengthen inspection and supervision work in the implementation of testing and evaluation, especially the stages of organizing exams.
Especially need to do well in propaganda work. propagate to raise awareness of all aspects of the extremely serious consequences that achievement disease brings. It did not properly evaluate the students’ abilities as well as the quality of the school.
Dr. Ta Quang Dam said that students who received good diplomas with good scores thought they were good. distracted from studying. It will affect the future of many students. Propaganda work to make all levels and sectors aware of what needs to be done right now is to promptly prevent this disease, which is the correct awareness coming from not only the students but also from the parents and teachers of the school. .
At the same time, allowing the establishment of a system of educational and training accreditation agencies; Encourage professional associations to build independent specialized quality accreditation systems and participate in assessing and certifying the quality of students, especially students at the end of their education level.
“ Authorities in the education sector need to strongly take measures to eliminate this disease by strengthening unexpected inspections and supervision. Eliminating this disease is not just anyone’s, it’s everyone’s disease, we need to join hands so that one day there will be no more disease and achievements in education will have a place to survive” – Dr. Ta Quang Dam proposed.“
