A Study On The Doctoral Dissertation Of College Entrance Examination

In recent years, Chinese college entrance examination has become one of thehot social issues. In China, college entrance examination means more than just a wayto get higher education; it is closely connected to economics, politics, cultural andother social problems. As college entrance examination has been focused on, allkinds of researches of it have grown up. Many voices from society can be heard, forexample, experts and scholars’ study, media’s reports, ordinary people’s comments.How to learn about the current situation and frontier academic study on the researchof college entrance examination?This thesis selects doctoral dissertation about college entrance examination asits content and analyzes the year of getting doctorate degree, subject, researchmethod, and doctorate units, discipline, academic impact, author, tutor, references.The study draw the following conclusions: there are few doctoral dissertationsand the subjects are decentralized but merely comparatively concentrating on system,policy and proposition. Besides combining theoretical approach and empiricalapproach, doctorate dissertations mainly adopted traditional research approach witha few new methods. Most doctorate dissertations come from key university anddiscipline; Xiamen University outshines other universities. Some universities focuson certain subjects, such as Xinan University mainly study physics proposition.Many doctoral dissertations have more academic impact and attention. Authorsprimarily come from colleges and universities; they abandoned their jobstemporarily devoting themselves to their doctorate study. Authors’ disciplinesprimarily belong to pedagogy, while some other disciplines begin involving incollege entrance examination as well. Tutors research field matched with authors’disciplines. A few tutors specialized in college entrance examination, while otherstutored dissertations from their own fields. The number of References on thedissertation is more than the average doctoral dissertation. Chinese and Englishreferences are primarily used in dissertations, and Chinese references overwhelmedEnglish ones. Some classic and significant works are frequently referred.The high level researches on college entrance examination are not enough.Researching contents are too dispersed; exclusive and isolated research leads toinsufficient academic communication and short of study groups. References sourcesare inadequate and classic works are minor; In a word, the high level study oncollege entrance exam can’t meet the requirement of college entrance examinationsystem reform and development.