The evaluation of professional degree level is the feedback of the third party to the education quality of professional degree programs in different universities, and it is also a mirror for universities to improve the training level of professional talents. In the evaluation results, the most concerned is the grade in the results (compared with "ranking", the expression of "grade" is more moderate and reasonable), but it is more necessary to dig deep into the evaluation report from multiple dimensions to learn nutrition from it and promote professional development.
For example, the evaluation results of the same college, a professional degree category and a relatively close discipline are inconsistent in similar periods. What problems will be reflected? Both assessments have teachers' indicators, and teachers' teams are also examined. What is the difference between the cultivation of doctoral programs in innovative disciplines and academics and the cultivation of professional masters or doctors with professional degrees, applications and career orientation?
It also shows the employment direction of graduates and the performance of representative alumni. What kind of choices and combinations can really be called in line with the project positioning?
Do the achievements of these alumni reflect the added value of skills given to them by project education? How to transform discipline advantage into specialty training advantage? How does the development of professional degree programs feed back and promote discipline construction? This reflects the coordination of the relationship between universities and departments sponsored by professional degree programs. We should know that not all world-renowned universities have first-class professional degrees, and a good university is by no means committed to all professional degree education categories, which is influenced by the active strategic choice, historical tradition, discipline evolution and its region.
A good evaluation must encourage colleges and universities to run their own characteristics, and should not lead to a thousand schools, or engage in a big form of "several happy families and several sad families." As far as possible, it should be presented from multiple dimensions, with more expressions of "literature first" and "each has its own advantages", and pay attention to giving a more detailed explanation of the school-running characteristics and innovation progress of different institutions.
Great progress has been made in the project evaluation of an institution. What did they do on their own initiative? What professional degree programs exceed the inherent reputation of the institution, and what do they rely on? Although it takes time to evaluate the effectiveness of education more fairly, the study period of professional degree programs is short and the needs of social and economic development change faster, so it is reasonable to evaluate more frequently than colleges or disciplines.
China is a big country, and professional degree programs can be encouraged to target specific regions, such as Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Yangtze River Delta, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. Therefore, it is a valuable encouragement to list the institutions in a certain area with a smaller evaluation form, which is helpful to the part-time project applicants who wish to study nearby.
For professional degree education projects, the most natural evaluation is whether the employment and development of graduates are recognized by society and units, and whether there is a snowball of positive feedback on enrollment (including hiring teachers, obtaining resources and partners). Therefore, the important and effective observation indicators of third-party evaluation are the enthusiasm of application, the difficulty of admission, the post after graduation and the development prospect.
However, at present, China society is still in the upsurge of high demand for degree, and most professional degree programs are not full. At this time, a good evaluation should help students understand more in-depth information, help applicants to choose further education from the perspective of enhancing their professional competitiveness and continuous contribution, and truly understand the value of further education from the real needs of society and industry, rather than just taking postgraduate entrance examinations for a degree. Evaluating the choice of professional degree application makes people more rational and sober, which is a responsible evaluation.
For the institutions that get the evaluation results, why do some of their own schools do well in professional degrees, while others fail to meet expectations? In addition to promoting the rectification and improvement of the investigation problem, is it necessary for us to offer every professional degree category when we enter the stage of connotative high-quality development? Should we do something? The evaluation result is only a reference, but it is an opportunity to remind colleges and universities to seriously consider their strategic layout periodically. If the organization does this, it is most satisfactory for the evaluation service provider.
In the new stage of development, the state has made major strategic arrangements for professional degree education and given preferential policy support. "Opinions on Accelerating the Reform and Development of Postgraduate Education in the New Era" points out that in principle, newly added master's degree-granting units only carry out professional degree postgraduate education, and the newly added master's degree authorization points are mainly professional degree authorization points; The enrollment scale of graduate students has expanded to two-thirds of the total enrollment scale of graduate students, and the enrollment of doctoral students has increased significantly. Under the guidance of the general direction, we should obtain the right of education evaluation and the right of "what is a good professional degree education", thus forming the direction of promoting the effective allocation of resources, so that the professional master's and professional doctor's education offered in a wider range can continuously cultivate a large number of practical and innovative talents and high-level professionals urgently needed for the great cause of rejuvenation.