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加权赋分

Score weighting

请看例句：

The top two Chinese education officials in Zhejiang province were sacked on Dec 5 after weighted scoring of an English test in the national college entrance examinations commonly known as gaokao.

因在高考英语科目中实施加权赋分，浙江省主管教育的两名最高级别官员5日被免职。

11月24日，浙江省高考英语科目成绩公布后，一些学生和家长提出质疑，称考生最终得分与估分相比差距较大(score unexpectedly lower or higher than what's estimated) ，未能体现其真实能力水平(fail to reflect the actual performance of the exam-takers' capacities) 。

11月27日，浙江省教育考试院对此作出回复，称因今年英语考试部分试题难度较往年偏大(level of difficulty for part of the test questions of this year's English exam was higher than previous years) ，遂面向所有考生，对难度较大的阅读理解(reading comprehension) 、语言运用(linguistic performance) 的部分试题实施了加权赋分

(give extra weighting) 。

这波解释未平息公众的质疑，有人认为，因题目太难而进行加权赋分，对成绩好的学生而言不公平，还有家长希望公开评分规则(the principle behind the grading method) 。

12月1日，浙江省委决定成立由浙江省长袁家军任组长，有关权威专家参与的调查组，对事件展开调查。

本月5日，调查组公布调查结果，认为此次高考英语科目加权赋分决策依据不充分、决策严重错误(a serious mistake without sufficient basis for decision-making) ，导致结果不公正、不合理(lead to unjustified and irrational testing scores) 。

浙江省政府决定，取消这次考试的加权赋分(the weighted scores will be canceled) ，恢复原始得分(the original scores will be reinstated) 。

浙江省教育厅厅长以及教育考试院党委书记被免职(be removed from their posts) 。

相关词汇开放式提问作文 essay open-ended question客观题 objective question选择题 multiple choice负分 negative score难度系数 difficulty level未经充分评估lack adequate assessment

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