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Reflection And Reconstruction Of University Teaching Evaluation System

Posted on:2012-12-12Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y H RenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117330335472012Subject:Principles of Education
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In the wave of social changes, the political, economic function of a university were hugely magnified or distorted, and its body function being more and more indifferent. The expansions of mass culture while the decline in elite culture result in a university expanding its external social function and the gradual decay of its internal education materials. The university becoming more and more avid for meet external demand while ignoring the inherent quality of the mold. The continuous expansion of scale of higher education leads government and the public to show concerns about the quality of higher education. The accountability of university by government and the public makes the teaching quality a hot issue. Appraisal as an important means for safeguarding teaching quality which has the orienting function in teaching management practice makes a direct impact on the development trend of a university. The teaching evaluation is a kind of value judgments related to a university teaching activities. To some extent, the teaching evaluation regulates and guides the development of teaching behavior, have a profound influence on teaching activities, and thus will have a positive or negative effect on teaching activities.A university as an academic organizations is responsible for exploring advanced knowledge, training professionals, its teaching activities have academic,professional and complexity etc features. Double pressured by political logic and education intrinsic logic, the value orientation of university teaching evaluation has a difficult choice between "State and Education". Because of penetration in instrumental and technical rationality, the university actually teaching evaluation reflects something more in higher education management, not an educational act, the true value of education which has been obscured. As a result, the value orientation of evaluation activities out of order, many conflicts continue to appear. System is a prerequisite to ensure things orderly carrying on, and the scientific, reasonable and effective evaluation system is a key factor for restricting teaching evaluation system.In this paper, by taking practical issues as the breakthrough point, combing the development of the threshold logic of teaching evaluation, theoretical perspective of teaching evaluation and discrimination of teaching evaluation it will seek the hidden problem behind it. Previous studies on specific issues of evaluation, its research mainly focused on experience, fact and technical summary or description, lacked rational, reflective, overall, the deep problem research. The insufficient of institutional stratification, leaded to a practical stratification that deviated from the truth of teaching evaluation system. The reconsideration and construction of evaluation system of university teaching lies in improving the teaching evaluation activities, enhancing the quality and effectiveness of teaching evaluation, maximizing the positive features of teaching evaluation. It can also promote the improvement of theoretical system of teaching evaluation and guide the optimization of the teaching evaluation field. Evaluation of university teaching is not simply the assessment of teaching quality, but it involves the university conditions, teaching construction, teaching management, research and innovation, academic team, academic environment, a comprehensive assessment of many factors. From the beginning to the continuous development, it shows more and more functions regarding the macro-management, micro guidance, timely monitoring role for university teaching and becomes an essential link for university teaching and teaching development.Based on this, the research firstly uses an in-depth analysis of the background, meaning, purpose and status of existing research for evaluation of university teaching to seek the possibility and feasibility of this study. Following different paths of teaching evaluation development, restoring the typical events of teaching evaluation system to its original appearance, looking for the common rule in the complicated development, comparing with the western development through different cues, combing the inheritance of development, and actively learning from foreign experience, it will provide practical reference to the system innovation, and make prospects for the future trend of teaching evaluation development.Secondly, in order to explore the rationality of university teaching evaluation, the research will proceed from the philosophical foundation of the evaluation theory development and the driving force to interpret the inevitability of existence of teaching evaluation. In the vision of "State and Education", the research will do an overall contemplation for practical teaching evaluation system to reveal that the teaching evaluation should follow the pedagogical philosophy and significance from the viewpoint of value. Through value analysis, it obtains a reasonable value of teaching evaluation approach, achieves the ultimate goal of teaching evaluation and promotes education in human development. With understanding the regular relation between evaluation and development, it explores the complex and unique character of real state of teaching evaluation, portrays with the prospect that it ought to pursue. From the perspective of stakeholders to concern the relationship between subject and object of evaluation, it seeks to achieve effective implementation of the law and path of university teaching evaluation, avoids effectively the unnecessary bias of evaluation. It adopts correlation analysis and survey method to analyze the results of existing system of teaching evaluation.As a reference to "ought to be", it analyzes the real result of teaching and research system. It analyzes statistically the effectiveness of teaching evaluation on the basis of data sources from the results of national level teaching evaluation. Taken value assessment as a means, the core value of teaching evaluation was recognized.It further proves the feasibility of reasonable values; It critically evaluates from the methods and theories of foreign teaching evaluation to find solutions to theoretical and practical path for solving problems, so that it can deliver the professional and scientific recommendations to the development of teaching evaluation system, providing reference for improvement of system reform and teaching quality.Finally, under the impact of technical rationality and instrumental rationality, taking consideration of the disparity between "ought to be" and "to be" for teaching evaluation,it puts forward a tentative reconstruction plan to ensure the implementation of teaching evaluation system properly, reviews the logical argument of full text, summarizes the key point and the basic logic of this article. Taking problems as the breakthrough point, under the guidance of effective teaching and teaching academic philosophy, in the analytical framework of the stakeholder, the legal, scientific and rational systems should constantly to be improved. Based on consideration of effective teaching, scholarship of teaching, the sustainable development of teachers'teaching professional "the three dimensional body", it proposes a vision from the reconstruction of the existing teaching evaluation system. It gives a prospect of future research on the practical situation for strengthening the teaching center, improving teaching quality, emphasizing teaching professional development.
Keywords/Search Tags:University Teaching Evaluation, Teaching Evaluation System, scholarship of Teaching
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