A Study On The Evaluation Of Practical Courses Of Economics Based On OBE Theory

The practical courses for economic majors are the basic components of the talent training program for economic majors,the core content of economic majors,and the cornerstone of economic discipline construction.As the country attaches great importance to the construction of higher education courses,economic majors continue to develop various practical courses to cultivate students' practical and innovative abilities.However,the corresponding practical curriculum evaluation shows standardization and identity.It doesn't formulate personalized evaluations based on the characteristics of economic majors,the characteristics of practical courses,and the needs of society.It makes the existing practical curriculum evaluation effectively guide the process of practical curriculum's development,construction and implementation,and can not effectively guarantee the quality of practical curriculum.However,the quality of practical courses of economic majors is directly related to the level of the output of economic talents,so the effective practical curriculum evaluation of economic majors is of great significance to promote the teaching reform and improve the teaching quality of practical course.In this study,the practical curriculum evaluation of economic majors in five universities in Shandong Province is investigated and analyzed,and the problems and causes of the practical curriculum evaluation system of economic majors are deeply explored by the combination of questionnaires and interviews.There are four prominent problems: first,the evaluation content is not rich enough;Second,the evaluation method is relatively single;Third,the evaluation subjects lack the breadth and depth of participation;Fourth,the evaluation feedback is not in place.After in-depth analysis and summary,there are four major causes of the problems,one is that the evaluation subjects have a vague understanding of the nature of economic professional practice courses,and the second is that the role positioning of each evaluation subject is not clear enough.Third,because teachers and students self-reflection is not in place;Fourth,because a complete closed-loop evaluation system has not yet been built.Based on the above problems,this paper draws lessons from the OBE theory(Outcomes-Based Education,result-oriented education),combines the three core ideas ofStudent oriented,reverse design and continuous improvement with the characteristics of economic disciplines and practical courses,and constructs the practical curriculum evaluation system of economic majors under OBE theory.After discussing the evaluation subject,mode and content of the whole system,the content of evaluation index is constructed in detail,and thirty-three evaluation indexes are initially presupposed.The preset indexes are screened by exploratory factor analysis,principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis,and finally the evaluation index system of economic professional practice courses is generated,which includes three first-level indicators,seven second-level indicators and twenty-nine third-level indicators,and the analytic hierarchy process(The Analytic Hierarcy Process,AHP)is used to assign the index weight.At the end of the study,three practical courses of economics majors in S University are selected and compared with the evaluation indicators used in the practice courses of economics majors in S University and the results of this study.It is further proved that the evaluation index system of economics major practice courses constructed under OBE theory is applicable and practical.