The relevant person in charge of the Shandong Provincial Department of Education said that the level and quality of postgraduate dissertations directly reflect the quality of postgraduate education. Sampling inspection of graduate dissertations is beneficial to reflect the real situation of graduate education quality in degree-granting units and to establish and improve the monitoring mechanism of graduate education quality.
According to reports, the sampling object of postgraduate dissertations is the dissertations of postgraduate training units in this province who applied for doctoral or master's degrees in the same year or those who obtained doctoral or master's degrees in the previous year. Sampling inspection of dissertations is generally conducted twice a year, and the number of each sampling inspection is controlled at 1%-2% of the number of people applying for or conferring degrees in that year. Focus on sampling new degree-authorized disciplines and disciplines with a large amount of training, and the sampled dissertations are randomly selected by computer.
Sample papers are arranged by Shandong Academic Degrees Office, sent to relevant units outside the unit for "blind evaluation", and the evaluation results are published within a certain range. For papers that fail to pass the sampling inspection, the dissertation directed by the instructor will continue to be sampled in the next year. If the sampling of doctoral dissertations is unqualified for two consecutive years, the tutor shall not declare the provincial graduate education innovation project in the next three years, nor shall he participate in the evaluation of the next outstanding graduate tutor.