Abstract:

Datalism in education is a quantitative-oriented educational evaluation method, a data-based educational thinking mode, and an algorithm-driven education decision-making paradigm. Based on the fact that the interconnection of all things leads to the global data flood,information technology expands the efficiency of education data processing,education issues highlight the value of education data,the industry sets a good data-driven example,and the intelligent trend heats up the enthusiasm of education data use,datalism in education came into being finally,because of its resources, foundation,demand, demon-stration and prospect. The publicity of dataism in education has dual effects, which is reflected in whether the educational data itself is true or false, whether the representation dimension of educational data is the whole or part, whether the collection of educational data is a compliance act or a security threat, whether the data-driven teaching practice is a calculation or a conspiracy, education data intelligence is designed to help or control. In order to avoid the negative effects and technical traps of datalism in education,we should stick to the honest and pure motivation of education data use,advocate the two-wheel drive of data rationality and subjective sensibility,and optimize the construction of educators’data literacy.

Key words: big data in education, dataism, generative logic, double effect