期刊名称：Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
印刷版ISSN：1411-2272
电子版ISSN：2407-6899
出版年度：2007
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：79-106
语种：English
出版社：University of Indonesia
摘要：The National Examination (NE) has been conducted for several times nationwide. However, public debates always emerge over the importance of NE prior to the annual excecution of the examination. The government’s policy to raise the passing standard under the pretext of improving the quality of the national education has commonly triggered a heated controversy. This paper discusses the NE from the perspectives of expectations, challenges and opportunities. It attempts to provide an objective picture as to the need to hold NE. As such, it puts the attempts to improve the quality of the national education through NE in a proportionately wider perspectiv.
关键词：national examination; national education; quality of national education
