A Study On Undergraduate Education Performance Index System Of China's Research -oriented Universities

The first decade of the 21st century has seen crucial social transformation in China. With further reforms in social, economic and political sphere, it is China's innovation, which depends on a number of creative talents rather than China's production that can guarantee the sustainable fast-growing of the whole society. Thus, lots of states focus on the education of creative talents. And special attention is paid on the performance of training talents by research universities. On the Macroscopic level, high educational quality is closely related to the growth of national economy, scientific innovation, competitive strength as well as comprehensive national power; on the mesosphere level, it is of essential significance on the reputation of the university and its daily operation; on the microsphere level, students'future development also depends largely on the university educational quality, including their future choice and life value. In a word, various nations have carried out comprehensive appraisal of universities so as to improve the quality of high education.One of the major topics of university educational quality lies in the performance of undergraduate education in research universities. Undergraduate education, on the one hand, plays a fundamental role in the education of creative talents; on the other hand, helps shape students'willing of pursuing truth, down-to-earth attitude and academic interest during the gold stage of education. Some nations have put undergraduate training of research universities which is backed up by scientific research, onto government's work agenda. Under the direction of the Performance Evaluation Theory, this paper tries designing the system of undergraduate education performance index of research universities, based on the existing research results. First, this paper analyzes the strength and weakness of existing research results. From one perspective, there is less clarified and operational evaluation index of undergraduate education comparing to companies; from another perspective, research universities in China emphasize scientific research in order to realize its own value. As to its functions, it is much more complex than undergraduate education: the former aims at winning outside rewards and establishing reputation, and the latter maintain the regular performance of universities. This phenomenon adds difficulties to the construction of the system of undergraduate education performance index in research universities.So this paper summarizes the recent studies of talent training at home and abroad through literature research method and set its own standard based on the following aspects, including the appraisal structure, undergraduate training goal as well as function characteristics of research universities. Then it gives a systematic analysis of the system of undergraduate education performance index of research universities in China.Furthermore, under the instruction of the preliminary evaluation index system, it conducts a sample survey among the university students in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. After the investigation, it uses SPSS software to collect the data for project analysis and reliability analysis, and improves the evaluation index system to build the better version. Among these, item analysis is to evaluate the overall quality of data which plays a fundamental role in reliability analysis and consistency analysis. The reliability analysis method aims to measure the reliability and validity of the image of the government. The higher reliability, the more stability it has. According to statistics by research scholars, if the Cronbach'sαreliability coefficient is over 0.75, its scale has high reliability. While if the researchers compiled the reliability by Cronbach'sαcoefficient of less than 0.60, it means scale of project targets has no high reliability and it should be revised. In terms of this study, in descending order of score, who scored 25% higher before the group was clarified as high score group and who scored 25% lower after the group was clarified as low score group. This paper calculates the resolution coefficient of these two groups, and deletes the negative ones which cannot identify different reactions of people tested.Lastly, as for the data collected, after using SPSS to complete project analysis, reliability analysis, resolution analysis and relevant scale analysis, this research continues using SPSS software to analyze the different influences from all kinds of elements, such as gender, age, educational background, subject, occupation and so on, to the performance evaluation index system of undergraduate education in research-oriented universities in China so that the significant differences from different elements to the same index is discovered. According to statistical theories, it indicates significant difference that the coefficient is less than 0.05. Thus, the research does researching on the evaluation of the significant difference to gain information and try to explain the reasons objectively, aiming at provide useful references to government.On one side, under the direct of performance evaluation theories, according to the features and goals of research-oriented universities, the findings of this research refer to designing and conducting the performance evaluation index system of undergraduate education in research-oriented universities. On the other side, it does elementary researching on practical application and proposes methods to undertake the index system, putting forward evaluations on the undergraduate education in China's research-oriented universities by combining the"undergraduate education performance index system of china's research-oriented universities"with fuzzy evaluation method. So this article will not only refine the standards of the performance evaluation index system of undergraduate education in China's research-oriented universities and also provide suggestions on methods using in practical operations.