A Qulitative Study On The Satisfaction Of Undergraduate Teaching

It is far from enough to study the undergraduate teaching level of a universityrelying only on the transcript of academic record. Instead, it should begin with thesubjectivity of undergraduate education----undergraduates to explore in their eyeshow is the undergraduate teaching actually and whether they are satisfied with theirundergraduate teaching and what are the problems in the undergraduate teaching. Inthis study, the author adopts a semi-open interview, carrying out a in-depth interviewwith13undergraduates of X University from October2012to January2013. As forthe data analysis, the author uses Nvivo9.0software by Australia QSR Company anddraws the conclusion that the undergraduate teaching can be studied from fivedimensions of teaching objectives, the teaching process, teaching resources, teachingmanagement, and the scholarship of teaching, with a total of17ingredients.According to the research from different dimensions, the lowest satisfaction is withthe teaching resources, mainly due to poor hardware facilities of the Northwestern XUniversity, and the highest is the teaching process, mainly owing to the teachers’higher overall quality and professional competence. But the author finds that theundergraduates speak highly of the school climate and study style. Their satisfactionwith teaching management is relatively good, mainly because of each teaching unit ofthe university placing extra emphasis undergraduate teaching and handling theteaching problems in time. As to the teaching objectives and the scholarship ofteaching, these two aspects are not given enough importance and the undergraduateshave no idea about them.This thesis mainly consists of6parts. The first part is introduction, mainlyintroducing the research questions, research purpose and significance, literaturereview and the definition of some terms. Part two is the research design and researchbackground. This part involves the research design, research methods,researchapproach, research objects and sampling methods, data collection and analysis,as wellas research validity and ethical analysis. Part three is the research process and resultsanalysis. In this part,the author employs Nvivo9.0software, a qualitative data analysismethod, analyze the papers in CNKI Chinese core journals on the quality of undergraduate teaching in the past six years to make a certain outline of interview.After finishing the interview, the author uses Nvivo9.0to analyze the interviews with13students of the Northwestern X University and draw the conclusions. Part four isthe conclusion. According to the analysis, this thesis comes to a conclusion about theundergraduates’ satisfaction with the quality of undergraduate teaching and raisingproblems and giving countermeasures. Part five is the research on countermeasuresand suggestions, put forward the corresponding countermeasures and suggestionsaccording to the conclusion of the study. Part six is the limitation and Prospect of theresearch, to summarize and reflect on this study.