In July this year, the general office of the Ministry of Education issued the notice on further clarifying the scope of discipline and non discipline of after-school training in the stage of compulsory education (hereinafter referred to as the notice), which stipulates that after-school training of nine subjects related to the curriculum in the stage of national compulsory education shall be included in the discipline for management. With the development of actual identification and management, there are not only cases of carrying out discipline training under the pretext of non discipline projects and "playing the edge ball" to evade supervision, but also phenomena such as unclear positioning of hybrid projects and "detour" in the transformation and development of training institutions. Recently, the general office of the Ministry of Education issued the guide to the classification and identification of after-school training projects in the stage of compulsory education (hereinafter referred to as the guide), which not only refined the identification principles, but also stipulated the system construction. Establish multidimensional classification standards In addition to the training contents specified in the notice, the guide also requires comprehensive consideration from the dimensions of training purpose, training methods and evaluation methods to identify the types of training projects. If one of the four items is met, it will be determined as discipline training. "Informatics also has an Olympiad system. Before programming (Information Technology Education) was defined as a non subject, we were still worried about whether the school would learn a programming if it took informatics as a screening condition. This time, we were relieved to patch it." Cui xinjuan, a parent in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, mentioned the guide Result evaluation items: the evaluation of students focuses on screening and selection, and takes academic achievements and examination results as the main evaluation basis. "The previous notice emphasized the judgment based on the course content. The notice on resolutely investigating and dealing with the issue of discipline out of school training in disguised violation (Education Supervision Department letter [2021] No. 8) issued in September noted that discipline training was implemented in the name of non discipline, and began to investigate and deal with disguised violation. The latest guide" The evaluation criteria are further refined, including purpose, content, method and results. Through these judgments, we can feel the continuity of the policy, not only in form, but also in content. "Qin Guanying, associate researcher of the education and open economy research center of the University of international business and economics, analyzed. "The notice focuses on the main document, not on classification, and the guide is a supplement based on practice," said Xue Haiping, a professor at the school of education of Capital Normal University, "In addition to the nine disciplines, the classification is not so clear in reality, and the quality expansion may also require the application of discipline knowledge. Whether it points to achievement or ability, there are doubts about the declaration of training institutions, and the grass-roots law enforcement departments and supervision teams will encounter difficulties and difficult to judge, which requires some general framework guidance, and an expert team to judge in the face of very complex problems Judge and go to court. " Expert group and case sharing make identification accurate and efficient The guide points out that when there is a big dispute or difficult to identify, the lower education administrative department should submit it to the higher education administrative department for research and adjudication. All localities should carefully summarize the classification and identification of training projects, form and update the database of typical cases, promote the exchange and sharing of information, and promote the front-line identification work to be more accurate and efficient. The reporter noted that the guide The stipulated hierarchical guidance mechanism and expert identification system have been practiced locally. In Binhai District, Weifang City, Shandong Province, the identification team organized and established by the education branch of the district includes teaching and research personnel, discipline backbone teachers, training industry experts, legal advisers and other personnel. The application materials submitted by off campus training institutions are jointly identified by three or more experts, and the identification team will conduct the identification according to the identification Issue an appraisal report to Binhai District Education branch according to the situation, clarify the category and basis of training projects, indicate the experts participating in the appraisal, and report the appraisal results to the Municipal Education Bureau for unified filing and management. If there are objections to the district appraisal results, the municipal appraisal team shall review them. "The expert identification system embodies the principle of wide participation of relevant parties and separation of management, operation and evaluation. In the case that training institutions do not agree with the classification, there should also be a complaint mechanism." Xue Haiping suggested that expert groups should be established at the central and local levels, and attract the wide participation of relevant research institutions of colleges and universities, private education industry associations and other organizations. "The association is actually a bridge. It has more dealings with those training institutions. A stable communication bridge and reasonable release of expectations are very important for the healthy and orderly development of the industry." At the same time, the guide also mentioned that it is necessary to strengthen the horizontal cooperation between competent departments and the coordinated promotion between regions, adhere to the "one game of chess" and "avoid giving different identification results of similar training projects in different regions". Qin Guanying's analysis, "The education and training industry has large institutions with tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of users, and there are also some small education and training institutions in various regions. The reality of the coexistence of giants and dwarfs determines that the policy documents cannot be one size fits all. However, while respecting the front-line differences at the grass-roots level, we also need to strengthen the study of precedents and reduce the need for human judgment." The guide requires that the relevant personnel of the identification expert group and their immediate family members do not work or part-time in the training institution and belong to non stakeholders. In this regard, Qin Guanying believes that there is still room for improvement of the interest avoidance mechanism. "Even if you are not an immediate relative, you can realize the transformation and transmission of interests in a disguised form. It is important that the list of members of the expert group should be publicized and under supervision, rather than presenting only one appraisal result at the end." Quantitative standards for mixed projects It is understood that the Guangdong Provincial Department of education has developed a total of 28 identification related basis policy materials and annexes, proposed three steps of "directory identification method", "comprehensive identification method" and "expert group identification method", studied and proposed multiple qualitative and quantitative combination indicators, and determined quantitative standards for disciplinary and non disciplinary mixed projects. Taking the "training content" index as an example, Guangdong Provincial Department of education clearly puts forward that the project training content is within the "training content scope of discipline training projects" If the proportion is greater than 50%, it is deemed to have the characteristics of discipline Category attribute, that is, the discipline identification results are made; if the proportion of training content in the above range is less than or equal to 50%, it is not deemed to have the characteristics of discipline Category attribute for the time being, and further identification will be made after measurement and comparison of other indicators. According to the relevant responsible person, after adopting the quantitative identification standard, it basically does not appear again in the internal test process Different appraisers use the same appraisal standard, resulting in different discrimination and evaluation. "The original intention of the 'double reduction' policy is student-oriented. If students need to develop comprehensive quality, they should protect students' full right of choice." Qin Guanying worried that in order to reduce costs, administration tends to judge mixed projects as disciplines. "For example, mental abacus can improve memory, which is helpful for learning mathematics and Chinese, but there is no match between disciplines. In the face of mixed projects, law enforcement should give a certain discretion and tolerance, and illegal ones must be blocked." "There is still a clear difference between changing to avoid supervision and hybrid projects. With the accumulation of law enforcement experience, the norms are more and more detailed, the rules are more and more abundant, and the fuzzy areas are less and less." Xue Haiping said that interest quality training needs to be done by others. Many discipline institutions also have the need for transformation. I believe the next rules will be clearer and better meet the needs of the people. (outlook new era)