關於 community college ranking ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

【外交部 Dr. Wu 中興大學開課啦👨‍🏫】

#外交部 吳部長3月26日應 國立中興大學法政學院邀請，參與10周年系列演講「法政論壇」，以 #台美關係與外交工作經驗談 為題，向校內師生演講。

吳部長金句不斷，就讓我們一同來看看吧❗️

📗外交策略：廣交朋友

吳部長提到，台灣外交的挑戰，尤其是軍事威脅、外交空間的壓縮、國內穩定安全的考量，最大的挑戰還是來自對岸，因此外交工作最重要的目標，就是結交更多的好朋友，透過結合 #友邦 及 #理念相近 的國家，與 #美國🇺🇸 #日本🇯🇵 #歐盟🇪🇺 #澳洲🇦🇺 #紐西蘭🇳🇿，以及 #加拿大🇨🇦等國家，積極努力，開拓國家間信賴關係。

📗互信基礎，得來不易

經過4-5年的努力，可以看到我國與美國、歐洲國家關係有著長足的進展，但是這樣的互信基礎，得來不易，也因為如此，我們與國際政要高層的對話，不應拿來媒體炒作，要真正談出成果時，讓民眾知道外交部真的讚👊。

📗台美合作，日益密切

台灣與美國近年來透過 #台美教育合作倡議 建立的華語教育的溝通平台，所以我們與哈佛大學簽約，並且邀請政界人士來台學習華語，另外透過 #台美經濟繁榮夥伴對話 深化經濟合作關係，以及 #全球合作暨訓練架構 (GCTF)使得台灣成為國際間 #非傳統安全 重要的核心。

📗爭取瞭解，獲得支持

沒有一個國家有義務支持台灣，我們必須主動積極去說服國際社會，台灣是可以信任的好夥伴，以及台灣對國際社會是正面的貢獻。並且要讓國際社會瞭解台灣身處對抗 #威權主義 擴張的第一線，要是失去台灣，就是失去重要的民主堡壘。

📌美國拜登總統上任之前，美國這樣稱呼我們
🔸Democratic success story 民主成功的故事
🔸A reliable partner 一個可信賴的夥伴
🔸A force for good in the world 世界良善的力量

📌拜登政府上任後，美國這樣形容我們
🔸A leading democracy 民主的領頭羊
🔸A critical economic and security partner 關鍵經濟和安全夥伴

除了外交部的努力，也需要台灣社會共同認知，才有今天的成果，也鼓勵參與演講的同學們，未來加入外交部的行列！

#部長說跟外館時差關係外交部常常加班
#加班啦哪次不加班

MOFA’s Dr Joseph Wu was in session yesterday, giving a talk on his experiences of diplomatic efforts in the #Taiwan-#US relationship on invitation from National Chung Hsing University in a series of lectures held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the university’s College of Law and Politics. We’ve summarized some of the highlights for you below!

🔹Diplomatic Strategies: Make a lot of friends.

The biggest challenges for Taiwan in its diplomacy, according to Minister Wu, are those brought by the cross-strait issue, specifically the military threat to Taiwan, the attempt to shut down Taiwan’s opportunities for international diplomacy, and domestic security concerns. For this reason, one of the biggest objectives of Taiwan’s diplomatic strategy has been to make a broad range of good friends, building trust with diplomatic allies and like-minded countries and regions, such as the US, Japan, the EU, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

🔹Building hard-won trust:

After 4-5 years of effort, we’ve seen significant progress in our relationship with the US and European countries, but this foundation of trust was hard won, and because of this, our discussions with top-ranking foreign leaders should not be taken as media fodder so that real results can be derived from these discussions. That way, the public can be reassured that the ministry is doing its job well.

🔹Ever-closer ties in Taiwan-US cooperation:

Through the Taiwan-US Education Initiative we’ve established a communication mechanism for Mandarin education programs, signed an agreement with Harvard University, and invited many figures from the political world to study Mandarin in Taiwan. Through the Taiwan-US Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue, we’ve also strengthened our economic cooperation, and the Global Cooperation and Training Framework has transformed Taiwan into a hub for the management of non-traditional security issues.

🔹Seeking understanding and gathering support:

No country has a duty to help Taiwan, so we must be proactive in convincing the international community that Taiwan is a trustworthy partner and that it has a positive contribution to make within this international community.
We must also get the international community to understand that Taiwan is on the front line in the fight against authoritarian expansionism, and that if Taiwan is lost, an important #BeaconOfDemocracy is lost with it.

Before US President Joe Biden took office, the US referred to Taiwan as a “democratic success story”, “a reliable partner” and “a force for good in the world.”

Since President Biden took office, the US has referred to Taiwan as “a leading democracy” and “a critical economic and security partner.”

In closing, Minister Wu stated that the successes achieved are not solely a result of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ efforts, but also of a common belief held by society in Taiwan, and he encouraged the students at the talk to join the ministry’s ranks in the future.

#RealFriends #RealProgress

考試與評估研討會18分鐘精華
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgopnHD3Lg8
文字重溫　highlight transcript：
0241-0938 考試與評做在美國、香港及芬蘭的狀況
(Exam and Assessment) Situation in US, HK and Finland

Situation in the USA

Dr. Stephen Krashen: "The United States Department of Education has an obsession with competition. We’ve got to win, we’ve got to be number one in everything we do.

The Race to the Top increase testing, my estimate, about 20 times what we had before.

The effect of taking a standardized test to predict college achievement, the SAT. The SAT added nothing to the prediction. Teachers’ evaluation of students is the best measure we have.
A heroic movement called Opt-Out. Opt out was begun by parents, public school teachers and a few university professors on zero budget.

It spread by word of mouth. In New York State last year, 20% of the public school students eligible to take the test, did not take the test."

Situation in HK: TSA & PISA

Professor Esther Ho: "Both PISA and TSA are actually system level assessment as I said before, but then during the process we will use this score to identify individual school. So for TSA, the government has individual school ID, so they can really abuse it, not just misuse it, to make school accountable for the percentage correct, report every year to individual schools, but that is not fair, particularly for TSA, because in the primary level, all students are entering their schools by residential criteria, also will have very different family backgrounds.

Actually we have a very comprehensive assessment system if we stop the TSA in this little area, that won’t ruin the whole assessment system. We still have many different kinds of survey to understand the school.

In 2014, a group of international scholar including Stephen Ball, Henry Giroux, wrote an open letter to Andrew Schleicher, the leader of PISA since 2000.

They said, PISA tests are damaging education worldwide.
While standardized testing has been used in many nations for decades, PISA has been contributing to an escalation in such testing and a dramatically increased reliance on quantitative measures.

This emphasizing a narrow range of measurable aspects of education, take the attention away from the less measurable or immeasurable educational objectives like physical, moral, civic and artistic development, our student self-concept, anxiety, all the non-quantifiable items are less emphasized anymore because every three years, when they report these international results, the media always focus on the ranking.

So this kind of assessment regime is controversial if it’s a continual cycle of global testing, it will harm our children and impoverishes our classroom, and even de-skill the teachers, and then also endanger well-being of students and teachers.

I think HK should join the US movement, No Unnecessary Testing, the NUT movement from Stephen, and then really create the space to really nurture the competency, the soft skills, the passion and compassion of our students. And then really review the roles of all kinds of exams and tests on student learning, particularly when the test is hurting children at a very young age, what should we do as responsible adults? These adults are not just about the parents. They include the teachers, school administrators, principals, policy makers and scholars."

Response: Prof. Hau Kit Tai, CUHK: "I think we have a wrong focus because if we want to change the system, we have to work on high stake ones. So in HK in particular, we have to work on the high stake secondary school placement system, which TSA does not serve this purpose. TSA is low stake or no stake system by design.

Response: Legislator Ip Kin Yuen: "KT just say TSA is a low stake testing according to design. But just according to design. We all know that it has become a very highstake assessment in reality. So that is the problem if we do not face this reality, we miss the point."

Mediator: Prof. Stephen Chiu, CUHK: "We don’t want to compare school with factories. But if you have two factories, one has a good output with standard working hours, another one has better output but with a lot of overtime work, which one is the better factory? Which one is more productive.? That’s something that we have to put into context."

How do they test and assess in Finland?

Dr. Kristiina Erkkilä: "There are no national authorities for testing learning outcomes, nor are there any ranking list. Moreover, there is no school inspector. Evaluation of learning outcomes is based on national surveys. The aims are to produce information for both schools and students to develop.

The whole purpose to evaluate is to support learning of a student. And I think who does best is the teachers who are very close by, and the other adults and themselves. We have a strong emphasis on self evaluation, and also evaluation by their peers and by their community, because we also engage the families and the parents in participating in the growing of the child.

We are not perfect and we have problems being a remote country with a lot of darkness and harsh weather. Life is very hard in Finland too, but maybe in different respect. So may I said we try to keep our school a pleasant place and not add to that pressure in schools. "