Abstract: Most of the previous discussions about the actual effect of moral education are focused on the surface views. The views in terms of moral education objectives， functions or values all fail to reveal the essential connotation of actual effect， which might be interpreted as the educated approving and accepting the actual situations requested by the education content. The evaluation system of moral education， the evaluation system of morality and the macroscopic standards for moral education cannot successfully evaluate the actual effect. A possible wayout is to generalize the education content in such dimension as knowledge understanding， concept acceptance and behavior externalization so that a more feasible system for evaluating the actual effect of moral education could be set up.

Key words: moral education, actual effect of moral education, evaluation system