In reality, regardless of the type of education, its most fundamental nature is to teach and cultivate. Though distance education features unique transmission of instruction, provision to a diversified population, and emphasis on students' independent study, it is consistent with the most fundamental nature of education to teach and cultivate, and shares the common goal of serving the society. It should be pointed out that currently in China, traditional learning evaluation is still prevalent in basic education. With examination used as a substitute and determinant of assessment, learning evaluation is highly selective. Therefore, in both teaching and administration, the students' scores become the prime objective of study, with undue emphasis on the possession of knowledge and neglecting evaluation of the students' behaviors, abilities and character. As such, quality-oriented education has become a hot topic in educational circles and examination-oriented education is widely criticized. In view of the new developments in distance education and the national requirements and laws for distance education, diversified evaluation represents the trend of reform in distance education learning evaluation approaches. It is imperative to establish a relatively scientific evaluation system rewarding intelligence, morality, knowledge, ability, innovation and application, to help students to know themselves, build confidence and urge them to learn for gain, for accomplishment and for practical use. In this way, the due role of teaching evaluation will be brought into full play to further strengthen the function of distance education in academic education, moral education and cultural education, and to shoulder the responsibility of serving and leading the society.

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