The Evaluation in the General Learning : The Meaning of Self-Evaluation by Children

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the meanings of self-evaluation by children in the general learning. The general learning is put into practice wholly to attain the school-learning aims including the sides of both knowlege and emotion. It respects the self-activity studies by children themselves. We discuss the followings. 1. The self-evaluation by children themselves should be used for improving the ways of spontaneous studies, and that particularly promoting the adequate self-understanding. It must be far from the evaluation which is compelled by their teacher. In short the teacher's evaluation can not be the proper appreciation of themselves by themselves. In a sense, the self-evaluation by children must improve the sense of self-affirmation, which makes themselves feel the self-efficiency. 2. There is more important function in the evaluation of themselves in the general learning than one of the aquired knowlege. That is, the former might establish the knowlege of themselves, and it is superior to the knowing what the subject matters consist in.