本文拟运用系统分析的方法,对现代考试的特征与功能加以综合考察,旨在为逐步完善现代化考试的理论体系,推动考试改革的深入发展提供有益的参考. (一)现代考试的特点分析现代考试是随着科学技术与现代教育的迅猛发展而产生和发展的.教育史上一般以本世纪二十年代西方国家创造的标准化考试作为其主要标志.实际上,所谓现代考试只是一个相对于传统考试而提出的概念,它指的是在现代社会与现代教育的历史背景下,根据育人,选人和用人工作的某一特定目标,对受试者某方面知识能力所进行的一种较为先进,科学的测量与评价.在学校教育领域,现代考试通常被理解为:根据教育的目标,对受教育者由于教育而得到的发展所进行的标准化、科学化测评.它一般是在规定的时间内,按照指定的方式解答事先编制的题目,进而对解答结果 This article intends to use the method of systematic analysis to examine the features and functions of the modern exam comprehensively, aiming to provide a useful reference for the gradual improvement of the theoretical system of modern examinations and the further development of exam reform. (A) The characteristics of modern examinations Modern The examination takes place with the rapid development of science and technology and modern education.The history of education generally takes the standardized examination created by western countries in the 1920s as its main mark.Actually, the so-called modern examination is only one relative to the traditional examination The proposed concept refers to a more advanced one of the subjects’ knowledge ability under the historical background of modern society and modern education according to a specific goal of educating, selecting and employing people , Science measurement and evaluation in the field of school education, modern exams are generally understood as: according to the goal of education, educated and educated by the development of education by the standardized, scientific evaluation.It is generally in the prescribed time Within the designated way to answer questions prepared in advance, and then to answer the results