The Selection And Reflection Of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations

With the vigorous development of knowledge economy, the modern world economic competition has gradually evolved into the talent competition.Whether China can stand among the nations of the world in the 21st century depends on the high-level innovative talents, especially the large number of doctors that attract the world vision in the challenge of knowledge economy. In order to develop the doctoral education, the scale of doctoral education expanded rapidly in our country. However, on the one hand, pay more attention to quantity, while the needs of quality had been ignored. The doctoral education quality declined seriously. It caused denouncing and questioning from the whole social. Therefore, strengthening the doctoral education management and improving the quality of doctoral education has becomed the first priority of graduate education in our country. In this context, the national excellent doctoral dissertation selection arised. It aimed to establish an effective supervision and incentive mechanism, encourage innovation and improve the whole quality of the doctoral education. The policy had caused a strong repercussion among universities and the social. Almost all universities introduced various measures actively to pursue a seat from the national excellent doctoral dissertation selection. However, with the development of the activity, the ills of the selection activity had appeared gradually.Such as, doctoral education was becoming more and more utilitarian. Many experts and scholars began to dispute the selection. According to some surveys, doctoral education quality even was not improved significantly. The purpose of this policy did not seem to realize. After 15 years, the national excellent doctoral dissertation selection finally corned to an abrupt end in 2014. In this paper, based on the analysis of the policy of national excellent doctoral dissertation selection, analyse the policy implementation and the effect, in order to reflect the disadvantages of the campaign, and explore the reasonable and effective way of doctoral dissertation evaluation.The study is divided into six parts, the first part is an introduction, mainly raising questions, explains the meaning of research, and reviewed literature related to the national excellent doctoral dissertation selection,based on which, a few basic concepts defined, the main methods used in this study is- introduced.The first chapter mainly expounds the policy implementation process of the national excellent doctoral dissertation selection. To make a total research about the national excellent doctoral dissertation selection,first of all,we need to find the source of this policy, to understand the background of the policy. This chapter mainly analyses the related content about the national excellent doctoral dissertation selection, including dig depthly the various background of the policy, summarize and interpret the main content of the selection,in order to presents the policy introduced situation clearly.The second chapter mainly analyses the implementation process of the national excellent doctoral dissertation selection. First of all, this chapter presents the changes of the selection methods over the years, showing that the selection activity is becoming more and more standardized and institutionalized. Secondly,this chapter sums up the concrete steps of the selection process.Finally, it analyses the distribution of the selection results from seveal aspects, such as subject, unit and regional. Then it summarizes the distribution characteristics.On the basis of overall analysis about the national excellent doctoral dissertation selection, the third chapter reveals the following effect, interests competing and utilitarian what the national excellent doctoral dissertation selection caused, through the indepth study of the excellent doctoral dissertation selection policy formulated by provinces and schools, and the excellent doctoral dissertation cultivation policy. Giving a indepth reflection of the selection activity and explaining the reason of its end.Epilogue part makes a summary of the full text. In essence, the excellent doctoral dissertation selection is the symbolic evaluation, indicating that the policy essentially hinders the doctoral education. The doctoral thesis evaluation approach should be transferred from "selection" to "rogue". In this way, it is helpful for us to realize the improvement of the quality of doctoral education really.