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XIA Lixin, LI Chenglong & SUN Jingqiong / An exploratory study on the construction of standards 055
and assessment of national reading based on multi-dimensional integration

Table 1. The assessment subject and its task in national reading
Assessment level Assessment subject Task
Develop the national assessment standard on national reading, set core
National administrator indicators, conduct comprehensive evaluation on the national reading
Macro
of national reading system construction nationwide, and supervise the progress of regional/
sectoral national reading programs
Develop the regional assessment standard on national reading under
Local administrator of the national overall guiding framework, and conduct comprehensive
national reading
evaluation on the national reading system construction within the region
Meso Develop the sectoral assessment standard on national reading under
Sectoral administrator the national overall guiding framework, and conduct evaluation on the
national reading system construction within the scope of functions and
of national reading
duties, e.g. Ministry of Education is responsible for the assessment in
the education field
Conduct self-evaluation according to the national, sectoral and regional
assessment standards, and develop the national reading assessment
Micro Primary units
standard based on their own situation, to evaluate and guide the
national reading development

3.2 The assessment objects

The evaluation on the objects of national reading is conducted around the production, transfer and
usage, which is shown as follows (see Figure 4).

National comprehensive assessment standard on national reading

Production Transfer Usage

Publishers, administrative Educational State administration of Academy of press Educational
department for publica- Cultural press, publication, radio,
film and television
tion, etc. Guide to book fairs libraries sectors Evaluation of primary Children’s libraries Evaluation of sectors academic libraries Evaluation of of village libraries Layout and planning of village libraries Construction standard of village librarics Scrvice spccification and publication litcracy asscssment sectors Adolescent reading

libraries
matcrials
materials
literacy asscssment
Children’s rcading
Evaluation of public
Evaluation of school
Rcading needs survey
Rcading trends survey
cultural service centers
Selection and evaluation
Rcading statution survey
of high quality reading
of high quality rcading
Design and publication
Local comprehensive assessment standard on national reading
Production Transfer Usage
Administration of Press,
Publishers Bureau of Bureau of Publication, Radio, Film Academy of Press Bureau of
Education
Education
Culture
and Publication
and Television
Figure 4. The diagram of the national reading objects.