First, the basic situation and evaluation of graduation thesis work:
Basic information: This graduation thesis work was carried out according to the basic norms of schools and colleges. Due to full preparation, there were no major mistakes. At the beginning of 2006, the history department held a mobilization meeting for the graduation thesis of 2002, which seriously mobilized the relevant matters of the graduation thesis. At the beginning of the new semester in 2006, students choose topics under the guidance of teachers, and each teaching and research section provides students with newly revised reference topics for graduation thesis, and students initially select topics for their thesis. In the middle and late April, four groups, namely, the ancient history of China, the modern history of China, the modern history of China, and the history of the world, held opening lectures respectively. Most of the students' thesis topics passed, and some students' thesis topics were adjusted, and students began to enter the stage of writing graduation thesis outlines. At the beginning of May, students basically completed the writing outline and entered the formal writing stage with the consent of the instructor. Most students finish the first draft at the end of May, two drafts at the beginning of June and the final draft in mid-June. On June 17, the first round of defense was divided into four groups (modern history, modern history, medieval history and modern world history). After the student's application and the tutor's recommendation, 17 students entered the second round of defense. On June 23, the second defense was held, and the students' graduation thesis scores were finally determined and the follow-up work of graduation thesis was arranged.
Basic assessment
This paper briefly analyzes and summarizes the main links in the process of graduation thesis work, summarizes the experience and finds out the shortcomings, with a view to continuous innovation and progress in the future work.
Preparation of this thesis: the graduation thesis is fully prepared, and specific requirements and suggestions are put forward for teachers and students in all aspects according to procedures and regulations; Teachers and students are required to pay due attention to graduation thesis work and correctly understand the significance of thesis work; Special emphasis is placed on students' academic and practical significance in selecting topics, focusing on scientific research and training of topics, so as to meet the requirements of professional development goals and better reflect the cultivation and assessment of students' comprehensive quality and ability; Organize teachers to adjust the original reference topics of graduation thesis, highlight the requirements of academic and cutting-edge topics, and pay attention to the combination with teachers' scientific research expertise, strengthen the pertinence of teachers' guidance and improve the guidance; Students should pay attention to the difficulty of topic selection, the combination of academic and feasibility, and ask for a deep understanding of academic information trends and extensive collection of materials; Emphasize that students choose their own topics of interest, encourage students to develop their sense of innovation, and give students ample space to show their personality on the basis of embodying the pragmatic style of integrating theory with practice. The history department has always attached importance to students' practical teaching and training, and paid attention to cultivating students' scientific research consciousness and practical creativity. Many students have participated in scientific research activities and have been influenced by academic activities to varying degrees, which has played a good and positive role in the thesis work of history students.
There are still some habitual problems in the preliminary work of this graduation thesis. Judging from the students' topic selection and topic opening, some students' topic selection is still relatively blind and constantly revised. On the one hand, it shows that after a long period of professional study, the research direction is not clear, and there are certain problems in our usual teaching work; On the other hand, students do not pay due attention to the graduation thesis work, which directly affects the quality of the thesis. In the future work, we should help students determine the direction of professional research as soon as possible, stimulate students' interest in learning history from the research direction, and improve students' professional accomplishment and quality. Few students choose local history in their papers, which greatly limits their overall independence and innovative research.
Thesis guidance process: mainly investigate the teacher's behavior, work attitude, work efficiency and workload in the process of guiding the thesis. In the process of thesis work, we put forward strict requirements for teachers' guidance. On the basis of strictly observing the guiding norms and disciplines, it is more important to improve the quality of teachers' guidance and ask teachers to guide students' graduation thesis with a rigorous and serious attitude. In the concept of teacher guidance, it is emphasized that the guidance process should fully reflect the awareness of academic cooperation between teachers and students, encourage students to put forward their own opinions, give play to students' independent thinking ability and creativity, and advocate academic papers with personal style. In order to ensure the quality of practice, in the process of specific guidance, we strive to overcome difficulties and carry out our work in strict accordance with the requirements of the school. The number of students instructed by teachers is limited to the scope allowed by the school, and the teaching and research section is trying to do a good job of supervision and inspection. From the actual effect, the overall work is smooth and effective. However, there are still some problems, such as teachers' different guidance levels and working attitudes, the relatively simple knowledge structure of individual teachers, and the difficulty in guiding cross-directional papers. The content of students' thesis is not their own research direction, so the guidance is not in place. Therefore, teachers need to improve themselves and need to be trained. Because there are fewer teachers, students are free to choose topics, which puts higher demands on the instructors, so we should pay attention to them in the future. In addition, the guidance records are filled out by teachers themselves, some of which are too formal, and many guidance work is carried out at any time, not at the designated time and place. And it is difficult to guarantee its authenticity. We think it's better for students to do it. Students should take notes when teachers guide them, which is also the basis for revising papers. Teachers' guidance can be assessed through students' records.
Graduation thesis defense: this link is a comprehensive assessment of students, which can not only assess the depth and breadth of students' internal knowledge, but also test their external academic temperament and comprehensive expression ability on the spot. It can be seen from the process of this thesis defense that most students pay enough attention to the thesis defense and prepare it carefully. They can answer the teacher's questions fluently and show good language expression ability, which has an important relationship with the usual classroom teaching and training, and some students show excellent quality. The common characteristics of excellent students are: First, they have solid basic knowledge, can basically answer many questions involved in the thesis reasonably, and show their familiarity with knowledge and ability to use it freely. Second, with a wide range of knowledge, we can understand history from the inherent regularity of historical development, form a certain macro understanding of history, and basically give a relatively complete answer to the historical questions contained in the paper, rather than just staying in the content involved in the professional direction. Thirdly, he has a certain sense of theoretical research, and can use it to evaluate historical figures and events, showing a good research method of combining theory with reality and history with theory to a certain extent; Fourth, the language expression ability is outstanding, the logic is strong, and you can express your ideas clearly and accurately. Student papers with outstanding comprehensive qualities include On the Development of American Urbanization Suburbs, Kong's Westernization Movement and China's Modernization, Xu Sheng's On the Modern Value of Huizhou Merchants' History and Culture, Liu Lei's On the Relationship between China and Feng Yuxiang, Jiang Huibo's On Women's Contributions in the Anti-Japanese War and After the Victory of the Anti-Japanese War. In the defense, these students can analyze and expound the contents and viewpoints of their papers. In the defense of poor paper quality, people generally hesitate to choose a topic. Because there are many problems in the writing process, the direction is uncertain, the topic selection is difficult, and the basic knowledge of writing is weak, obviously I can't explain my views well. Therefore, there are naturally many shortcomings in defense. In the defense, the work from the whole organization is serious, rigorous and effective. Teachers can work hard and be strict, and strive to complete the work with good quality and quantity. The results are generally fair and recognized by students.