Quantitative Research On Roles Of Courses Of Ideological And Political Theory On Social Cohesion Of College Students

Lower effectiveness of-courses of ideological and political theory is one of the issues troubling researchers of ideological and political education currently. Because of this problem, those researchers have been committed to the effectiveness of ideological and political education, hoping to propose solutions and effective measures. This paper aims to examine and evaluate the effectiveness of ideological and political education of colleges and universities, assessing attitudes of college students on ideological and political theory courses and the effectiveness of the curriculum as well, making the highly abstract and highly general objectives operationalized, with the overall objectives decomposed down into a series of specific, measurable, action-oriented sub-objectives. An index system will be constructed with the overall objectives and sub-objectives as the dependent variables so as to assess effectiveness of ideological and political education. Specifically, courses of ideological and political theory are treated as independent variables and social cohesion of college students as the dependent variables and then objective evaluation of effectiveness of courses of ideological and political theory will be made through data analysis.In this paper, different researching methods are applied, such as method of literature, used to the theoretical analysis of social cohesion, on based of which the concept of social cohesion is being operationalized; and interviewing method and word frequency analysis are also used to analyze dimensions of the effectiveness of courses of ideological and political theory and the subjective attitudes of students. Then the software of SPSS and STATA and structural equation models are available to analyze the correlations and causal relationships between them above. The analytical results show that the social cohesion of college students can be divided into five dimensions such as confidence, participation, equity and justice, responsibility and sense of belonging while subjective attitudes into motivation, assessment of extracurricular activities, assessment of teaching methods and content evaluation, course effectsiveness into three dimensions such as two introductions, outline of modern Chinese history & situation and policies, and morality cultivation and basis of law. After the analysis of horizontal and vertical correlations of these dimensions and the difference analysis in these dimensions of college students, this paper draws the following conclusions in the final part.Correlation analysis results show that the correlation coefficient of subjective attitudes of courses and its effectiveness is 0.52. the correlation coefficient of the effectiveness and social cohesiveness of is 0.49. the correlation coefficient of subjective attitudes and social cohesion is 0.94. and the coefficients above are all significant in different levels.Difference analysis results show that demograhpic variables properties of the students such as nation, cadres, party members, major, academic level, school nature, only child all show different significant differences in different dimensions of social cohesion.And variables properties of the college students of cadres and party members, major, academic level.and school nature also show different significant difference in different dimensions of subjective attitudes of the students on the courses.Only school nature shows significant difference in the effectiveness of the course with the better effectiveness of key univesities than the general universities and better of general universities than the private universitie. On the whole, courses of ideological and political theory can explain 22% of social cohesion variation of college students, subjective attitudes of students on the political course can explain 77% of social cohesion variation, both of them can explain 81% of social cohesion variation. If subjective attitudes are treated as mediators, the courses can explain as much as the 85% of social cohesion variance.According to the analysis and conclusions above, this paper in the final part gives advice to enhance the effectiveness of political theory courses to the education authorities, educators, educatees and education mediators and this paper also looks forward to the future researches.