The System Structure Of The Cultivation Mode Of Chinese Professional Degree Graduates

With the rapid growth of science and technology and the deepening of globalization, the international competition with a core of science and talents is going more and more intense. The graduate education, which has a function of educating advanced innovative talents, developing science and culture and promoting the modernization drive, plays a very important role in this procedure. As an important part of Chinese graduate education, the graduate education of professional degrees takes the education of advanced applied talents as its goal and sets up to satisfy the needs of the society in providing practiced manpower. However, there still exist problems in Chinese cultivation mode of the graduate education of professional degrees. The education scale is too small. Fine teaching materials and teaching cases are lacked. The quality of teaching staff still needs improvement. Professional degrees are not required in job qualifications. The quality assurance system still needs improvement. Chinese Scholars have done much research work on these problems and have got a lot of achievements. But in general, their work mainly focuses on the problem-strategy and experience using level. Few of them can study the cultivation mode of professional degree graduates of our country in a system theory perspective. Moreover, scholars have different ideas about the elements of the cultivation mode of graduates. Thus it will be a leading and meaningful topic both theoretically and practically to do research on the structure of the cultivation mode of Chinese professional degree graduates in a system theory perspective.With the hope to provide a new perspective and thought, this dissertation jointed the latest research with the experiences on the cultivation of professional degree graduates both aboard and in China and attempted to explore the cultivation mode of professional degree graduates. Methods of quantitative and qualitative were combined and several methods were exerted in this research according to the needs of specific question. Concretely, first we used content analysis method to categorize the elements included in the cultivation mode system of Chinese professional degree graduates scientifically and objectively. Then, taking the cases and results we collected as hereunder, we studied the connotation, structure and current situation of these elements and the sub-systems consisted of these elements, integrating with content analysis method. Afterward, we bonded methods of causal feedback loop in System Dynamic, modeling and simulation to analyze the structure of the system of the cultivation mode of Chinese professional degree graduates, building the System Dynamic model, carrying out the simulation on the operation mode of system structure and comparing four strategies and their effects on the system. Based on what have been done above, we applied the self-organizing theory to construe the operation mechanism and function of the system structure of the cultivation mode of Chinese professional degree graduates system. The main innovation of this dissertation includes three points.Firstly, this dissertation analyzed the system structure of the cultivation mode of Chinese professional degree graduates in a system theory perspective, built a model of it and then carried out the simulations. On one hand, this dissertation used the theory and methodology of system science in the higher education research field, especially in the graduate education field and broadened the applied range of system science. On the other hand, this dissertation brings up a useful thought and is a brand-new exploration and attempt for the higher education research in our country both in viewpoint and methodology level.Secondly, this dissertation determined ten elements of the cultivation mode of Chinese professional degree graduates. This dissertation divided and concluded the elements and sub-elements of the cultivation mode system of Chinese professional degree graduates by the method of content analysis. Thus it defined the cultivation mode of professional degree graduates as a model and pattern which combined the elements of target, management, staff, curriculum, teaching and learning, discipline, integration of production, teaching and research, quality, resource and culture in the complex of cultivation of professional degree graduates. It follows some operation rules and aims at the cultivation of achieved applied talents. The determination of these elements solved the problem that different scholars have different viewpoints about the elements and most of their work lacked of basis and laid a foundation for the model research hereunder. The double-level element system can also be used as an indicator system in future work.Thirdly, this dissertation built a System Dynamic model for the system structure of the cultivation mode of Chinese professional degree graduates, carried out simulations for the operation of the system structure and compared the results of different strategies. These findings are carried out. Five variables of target level, management intensity, quality assurance intensity, cultivation level and internal supporting condition can construct a positive feedback loop. Due to the difference of a trigger mechanism, the positive feedback loop may spur the system to increase swiftly or to decline as well. The cultivation mode system of Chinese professional degree graduates with a limit to growth is influenced by double function of both positive feedback loop and negative feedback loop and it has an increasing S-shaped curve. To get a sustainable and stable development of the cultivation mode system of Chinese professional degree graduates, it is a key point to find and remove the limiting factor before the increasing of system becomes stagnant. The cultivation mode of Chinese professional degree graduates is a complex dynamic system. Its elements and subsystems connect each other and restrict each other. Even a tiny alternation may have great influence on the quality of cultivation.In sum, this dissertation summarized the previous and current research on the professional degree education and cultivation mode. On this basis, it also analyzed the structure of the cultivation mode of Chinese professional degree graduates employing system theory. From all that have been done, we got much meaningful findings and put forth the development policy contrapuntally, and therefore the relevant governor could get some academic support and advice for decision-making.