Legitimacy Of The Higher Education Evaluation. Power Game

By reviewing the history of China's higher education evaluation in practice and theory research, we found that, for a very long time, higher education evaluation had natural legitimacy. People seldom suspected its rationality and validity. But recently, the higher education evaluation represented by undergraduate teaching evaluation has provoked people's strong criticism and doubt. People begin to question the legitimacy of evaluation results. That is to say, the result from the normalization, specialization, professional evaluation has great difference from the social public opinion. As the existence of difference in higher education evaluation results, we began to traced the root of this kind of difference,began to introspect the rationality of the evaluation index, subject, methods, process and the use of the evaluation results in higher education evaluation. All these lead to a detailed inquiry of the rationality or legitimacy of higher education evaluation.The higher education evaluation under the power game was the factual existence of higher education of the evaluation. The higher education evaluation based on power game was very likely to become the tool of power game. In the name of promoting the development of higher education, this tool dominated by secular interest could form power collusion, cover higher education itself, and seek maximum secular interests. We thought that the gain and development of knowledge of the truth should be the existence nature of higher education. Also it should be the legitimacy root of higher education evaluation. Because the only existence and development of the knowledge of truth could provide rational basis and wisdom safeguard for satisfy the state, society and individual utility value, and it also could satisfy the need of existence and development of itself. If deviating from knowledge acquisition, preservation and creation, higher education could not be itself. The higher education evaluation would lose its legality. The inquiry of legitimacy had priority in higher education evaluation. The reason was if the stakeholders still focus on secular political power, economic benefit and honorary interests even though the higher education evaluation became to the stakeholders consultation stage, higher education evaluation process was likely to become a power conspiracy around "secular" interest ". Through this conspiracy, the higher education would lose its essential attribute, and education itself was covered, the long-term interests relied on the value of higher education itself would damage, although stakeholders interests was satisfied.Based on the above analysis, the basic problems of this study were put forward. We would (1) In the view of power game, reveal the existence of power subject in high education evaluation, analysis the relationship and the operation mode between them. We also want to verify that mathematical analysis method can not highlight the specific characteristic of higher education, also cannot fundamentally guarantee the rationality existence of higher education power game, although power game analysis was able to clear power equilibrium and put forward the equilibrium compose model. (2) In the view of history and philosophy, reveal the rationality and roots of high education evaluation, and explain their relationship. (3) Analysis the un-legitimacy performance in high education evaluation in our country. (4) Propose the legitimacy image of power game in China's higher education evaluation. The researches of these questions would help to promote and perfect meta-evaluation research in education evaluation, to provide basic analysis framework for criticizing and analysis the legitimacy exist of high education evaluation, to improve the current Chinese higher education evaluation work which has denounced, to establish the guarantee mechanism of higher education with Chinese characteristics. Specifically, It was helpful to transform the functions of government, liberate from micro management affairs of the higher school; helpful to implement the academic freedom of higher schools, enlarge higher school school-running autonomy; helpful for higher school to operate according the needs of society and the market, and improve teaching efficiency; helpful for higher education to reach the demand of democratization and globalization.This study included seven sections:"Introduction": Through analyzing the context of the power game in higher education, we pointed out that the legitimacy had the priority in higher education evaluation, and the inquiry of legitimacy was the basic dynamic to promote high education evaluation. The following questions should be study: the legitimacy research of high education evaluation under power game; the theory value and practical significance of this study after the review of literature; clarifying the basic problems of the research and the research methods."Chapter 1: The power body in higher education evaluation and game mode". In this section, after the analysis of the concepts high education evaluation and power, the power subjects and the power structure were clear. Power structure was examined by philosophical analysis. The manifestation of college power game was investigated. On the analysis of game theory model and its limitations, we put forward the idea that the legal power of higher education game produced legal evaluation."Chapter 2: The legitimacy roots of power subjects in higher education evaluation". In this section, we suggested that science research—the existence of the higher education which formed in the history of high education was the root of power subjects in higher education evaluation . The legitimacy existence is the history result of power game."Chapter 3: The legitimacy manifestation of power game in higher education evaluation". In this section, we focused on analysis the power game among the government power subject, college power subject and the appraisal institution power subject in external high education evaluation. We also have analyzed the power structure and game styles in internal higher education evaluation. "Chapter 4: The inspection of power game legitimacy in China's higher education evaluation". From history viewpoint, we inspected the development characters of power structure in China's high education institute and university and the characters of power game in high education evaluation."Chapter 5: The trend of power game in China's higher education evaluation". According to the analysis of the previous chapter, we suggested that the essence of university was to stick the university spirit which was the ontology of the university existence, to root university natural, to lead the legitimacy of power game, to realize a win-win situation of the higher education evaluation subjects through establishing sound university manage structure."The last: The higher education evaluation toward legitimacy under power game". Thinking about the problem of current power game in high education evaluation, we suggested that more reflection should do on how to establish legitimacy evaluation ethical and culture, how to realize the higher education quality, and how to ensure the legitimacy of power game in high education evaluation.