Non-academic Thesis on Undergraduate Graduation: Suggestions on Doing a Good Job in Undergraduate Graduation
Combined with specific examples, this paper puts forward practical suggestions and methods on how to choose topics, how to choose tutors and how to carry out experiments for reference.
Undergraduate thesis; Teaching; Topic selection; suggestion
China Library Classification. G642.477 ID number A1007-5739 (2010) 23-0032-01
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Wen Gu Ying
College of Animal Science and Technology; Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009)
Based on specific examples, this paper puts forward some feasible suggestions on how to choose topics, guide teachers and design or experiment, and how to do a good job in graduation thesis for undergraduates.
Keywords undergraduate thesis; Teaching; The choice of theme; suggestion
Undergraduate graduation thesis is an important teaching link to achieve the training goal in university teaching [1]. However, in recent years, there have been many negative comments and arguments about plagiarism, adulteration and cancellation of undergraduate graduation thesis. This phenomenon is bound to occur under a series of comprehensive backgrounds, such as extremely rich network resources, diversified employment, and inadequate education management and monitoring. However, as a comprehensive training course, the General Office of the Ministry of Education clearly pointed out that graduation design (thesis) is an important teaching link to achieve the training goal. Graduation design (thesis) plays an irreplaceable role in cultivating college students to explore the truth, strengthen social consciousness, carry out basic scientific research training, and improve their comprehensive practical ability and quality. It is an important embodiment of the combination of education with productive labor and social practice, and an important practical link to cultivate college students' innovative ability, practical ability and entrepreneurial spirit? [2]。 Therefore, it is impossible for most colleges and universities to cancel, but to improve their own evaluation methods and improve this training link by improving supervision. Combining with some concrete examples, this paper gives some suggestions to undergraduates who are about to prepare their graduation project (thesis) for reference.
1 Select the subject direction of relative interest.
Different from ordinary course teaching, graduation thesis does not specify specific content, and students have more freedom to choose, which can cover different topics and scopes [3]. A student who wants to do a good job in graduation thesis should take the initiative to understand the subject and research direction of his professional teacher. At present, most teachers' scientific research background and other related information can be easily obtained online. On the basis of understanding, choose a subject that you are relatively interested in. Perhaps many students don't know what they are interested in or think that they must carry out relevant experiments according to their tutors' opinions, so they have no choice. In fact, quite a few teachers still want to listen to students' own ideas; Or provide several reference materials to choose from.
In the 20 10 selection of outstanding undergraduate thesis of Yangzhou University, 1 thesis directed by a teacher was rated as excellent thesis of the school, and was later recommended as excellent undergraduate thesis of provincial universities. At this point, the undergraduate graduation thesis directed by the teacher for three consecutive years was selected as the outstanding undergraduate graduation thesis in the province, and the thesis won the first prize in 2008 and 2009. Students of Grade 2008 have entered their laboratory since their freshman year, and have done a lot of testing work with graduate students. When they graduated, they were admitted to the graduate school of China Agricultural University. His subject direction will be the detection of veterinary drug residues, so his subject is the study of new methods for the detection of veterinary drug residues. One of the research directions of the tutors contacted by the class of 2009 is the endocrine regulation of dairy cows. After simple communication with the teacher, the students' final subject is the study of the effect of Achyranthes bidentata polysaccharide on streptozotocin-induced diabetes in mice, which is related to their future research direction.
Please have a teacher with plenty of time as a tutor.
? Opinions of the Ministry of Education on further deepening undergraduate teaching reform and improving teaching quality in an all-round way. Point out in? Teaching undergraduates well should be the basic requirement of professors and associate professors. Those who do not undertake undergraduate teaching tasks shall not be appointed as professors or associate professors. After being hired as a professor or associate professor, those who do not teach undergraduates for two consecutive years shall not be hired as professors or associate professors [4]? . The introduction of this opinion obviously has its important basis and background, which at least shows that a considerable number of teachers are busy with things other than teaching. Quite a few teachers often travel, which is hard to see at ordinary times. If you find such a teacher as a tutor, I am afraid that most of them are in name only, and the work of guiding the thesis falls on their graduate students. Moreover, graduate students sometimes worry about letting undergraduates do experiments alone, but they are afraid that their work will be affected or other reasons. In order to save trouble, they directly give their experimental results to students or let undergraduates find their own ways. Therefore, students who are about to graduate should consider whether the teacher can meet frequently and communicate with the tutor when choosing a tutor for their graduation thesis.
3 Give full play to students' subjective initiative
As students, we should take the initiative instead of waiting for teachers to find students to discuss issues related to the theme. This is reflected in many aspects, except to express your thoughts in time when contacting the tutor, actively search for relevant literature under the guidance of the tutor, and summarize the literature to clarify the background of the topic and the general situation of relevant research; After opening the topic, teachers should often be asked to discuss the rationality and breakthrough point of experimental design; The method of testing indicators and the meaning represented by indicators. Why do you gradually do this topic in the discussion? How? How to analyze the results and so on. Knowing these problems, you will have a train of thought in writing your thesis and a main line in your defense report in the future. In 2009, under the guidance of a teacher from Yangzhou University, he actively searched a large number of Chinese and foreign documents after selecting the topic, and made clear the background and general situation of similar research. Then, the indicators to be tested, testing methods, reagents and equipment needed are determined through literature, and all of them are presented to the tutor. Through discussion, determine the detection indexes together with the tutor, such as serum enzymes, blood sugar, tumor necrosis factor, interleukin, insulin, leptin, adiponectin, serum calcium and phosphorus, etc. So as to explore the potential effect of Achyranthes bidentata polysaccharide on diabetic mice. Students' interest and initiative are the key to do a good job in graduation thesis, and it is important for teachers to respect students' choices and give them support? Catalyst? . Students' initiative, ways and means of doing things and the resulting high efficiency also make the teaching teachers feel refreshed and realize a win-win situation for teaching and learning.
4 Use spare time to intervene in advance, not limited to a laboratory to do experiments.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, and opportunities always favor those who are prepared. Some students contacted their tutors to do graduation thesis just before graduation, which seemed a little hasty and helpless. In addition, they usually lack brain and hands-on training and have no direction. When looking for a tutor, it is inevitable to be blank or put forward unrealistic ideas. If you enter the laboratory in the third year of college or earlier, you will not only be familiar with the environment, instruments and equipment, but also meet some graduate students and related teachers, and you will be deeply impressed by the laboratory. In the future, undergraduates will not be afraid of difficulties when choosing topics and doing experiments, and it is easier to enter the role after choosing topics.
All the three students mentioned above entered the laboratory in advance. Among them, in 2008, he participated in animal breeding and testing in the laboratory from the beginning of his freshman year. Later, the teacher arranged an experiment for him alone. He did a lot of work in his spare time and holidays. Before he did his undergraduate thesis, he had published five scientific papers. Some experiments need to borrow instruments and equipment from other laboratories. Their instructors and students go to the Institute of Chemical Technology to find relevant teachers to do spectral tests, and more often use the central laboratory of the school. Students of Grade 2009 entered the laboratories of Veterinary College and Animal Science and Technology College in their junior year, and went to the laboratory of thesis supervisor at the end of September in their senior year. At this time, they have published papers in cooperation with graduate students and published many review articles independently. This 20 10 student began to come to the teacher's laboratory in his sophomore year. The teacher arranged for him to translate 1 scientific paper and revised it several times together. Later, this translation was published in the journal Feed Industry. And then it started groping in the lab? Handyman? By the time of graduation defense, the student had published six papers as the first author.
5 conclusion
In short, it is very important to prepare in advance and take the initiative to practice the attitude and actions for doing a good job in undergraduate graduation thesis. At present, many people engaged in front-line teaching or teaching management have given many explanations on how to strengthen the quality control and specific management measures of undergraduate graduation thesis. Education cannot exist in isolation from society, and the disease of education is often an extension of social disease. ? In the current social background of our country, if there is no systematic and comprehensive process management and the cooperation of relevant social departments, all kinds of specific measures proposed for teaching management alone will often encounter many embarrassment in implementation. This paper gives some suggestions to students who want to do their graduation thesis with concrete examples. Generally speaking, students should have a correct understanding and attitude towards the thesis, and then take positive actions. If they only deal with various indicators and assessments, it is empty talk to do a good job in graduation thesis.
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Exploration on improving the quality of undergraduate graduation thesis.
In view of the problems existing in college students' graduation thesis, this paper puts forward some countermeasures to ensure the quality of graduation thesis, and probes into the establishment of a college-centered, teacher-and student-centered periodic quality management monitoring system for graduation thesis, so as to ensure the smooth development of graduation thesis and promote the continuous improvement of graduation thesis quality.
Keywords: graduation thesis; Quality control; Realization method
China Library ClassificationNo.: G642.0 Document ID: A DocumentNo.:1674-9324 (2015) 03-0117-02.
Undergraduate graduation thesis is a comprehensive test of students' knowledge and practical skills in school, and it is also an important means to improve students' innovation ability and scientific research ability. As? 985? Although colleges and universities have perfect management and monitoring measures for the quality of graduation thesis, the goal of cultivating innovative talents requires improving the quality of graduation thesis, so it is necessary to form a more perfect management and monitoring system. In this paper, the problems existing in undergraduate graduation thesis are sorted out, and the establishment of a college-centered, teacher-and student-centered periodic quality management monitoring system for graduation thesis is discussed, which is always in accordance with the plan? Realize? Check? The management of treatment is cyclical, and each cycle goes beyond the previous cycle. By evaluating the completed graduation thesis from the aspects of topic selection, experimental implementation process, paper form and content, and evaluating the management and quality of the thesis writing process, we can find out the problems existing in graduation thesis teaching, correct and improve them in time, ensure the smooth development of graduation thesis and promote the improvement of graduation thesis quality. The specific method is as follows.
First, the implementation process of quality monitoring system
Two, the graduation thesis quality monitoring plan to implement hierarchical management.
1. The college should set up a leading group for undergraduate graduation thesis work with the dean of teaching as the leader and the secretary of educational administration, the director of teaching and research section and professors as members. According to the regulations of the school on the management of undergraduate graduation thesis, combined with the professional training objectives and characteristics of our college, the implementation rules for the management of undergraduate graduation thesis are formulated, and the students' undergraduate graduation thesis and related materials are submitted to the Academic Affairs Office for the record.
2. According to the relevant regulations of undergraduate thesis, combined with the training objectives and characteristics of this major, each teaching and research section adopts two-way selection to determine the instructor of undergraduate thesis; Organize the examination of undergraduate graduation thesis and formulate the task book; Organize undergraduate graduation thesis opening and mid-term examination, and deal with existing problems in time; Organize graduation thesis defense; Responsible for graduation thesis work summary, etc.
Third, the preliminary work and implementation of graduation thesis
1. Formulation of teaching management documents for graduation thesis. Based on the comprehensive investigation of previous graduation thesis work, aiming at the new problems and new situations in the process of graduation thesis implementation and writing, the feasible graduation thesis work rules and graduation thesis teaching syllabus are formulated. Formulate detailed rules on the basic requirements of graduation thesis teaching, organization and management, the responsibilities of instructors, the principles of topic selection, grading standards and defense requirements, so as to provide institutional guarantee for improving the quality of graduation thesis.
2. Strengthen the guidance of topic selection. Teachers and students take it? Two-way choice? Voluntary union? Model. Students can choose a topic in combination with the teacher's scientific research topic; You can also choose a topic according to your hobbies and employment situation. The topic selection of graduation thesis should be combined with production practice and be innovative to some extent. Then instruct the teacher to fill in the examination and approval form of topic selection and clarify the requirements of topic selection; After the teacher communicates with the students, the students fill in the research content and progress plan of the graduation thesis task book under the condition of extensive reading. Finally, get down to business. The opening report includes the basis of topic selection, research status at home and abroad, research content, technical route, research methods, expected results, innovations, implementation progress, budget, etc. The opening defense is that students present the contents of the opening report to the defense Committee through multimedia reports. The defense committee strictly checks the topic selection, scheme design, research content and experimental material selection of the graduation thesis, points out the shortcomings in the graduation thesis, allows students to make improvements, and lays the foundation for the smooth implementation of the graduation thesis.
3. The realization of graduation thesis quality monitoring system. First of all, college leaders should attach great importance to the teaching of undergraduate graduation thesis and give sufficient financial support; The College Teaching Committee is specifically responsible for formulating the detailed rules for the implementation of graduation thesis, the detailed rules for writing and defending, and the quality management monitoring system; The academic secretary or teaching assistant who is in charge of graduation thesis can establish smooth and effective communication channels with the instructors and students to ensure the timely release and implementation of thesis teaching tasks at all stages. Secondly, the teaching Committee evaluates the management quality of the thesis writing process, including whether the teacher seriously discusses the thesis topic with the students and makes a research plan; Whether students are regularly called to guide research methods and correct problems in time when found; Whether to attach importance to detailed experimental data and realistic research style; Whether the examination of the paper is serious and whether the revision of the paper after the defense is serious.
Finally, the teaching Committee evaluates the quality of students' management thesis writing process, including whether students can handle the tasks of opening questions, mid-term inspection and defense seriously; Whether students can strictly implement the paper implementation plan; Whether you can regularly participate in the tutor's thesis to guide teaching activities and actively express your opinions, and whether students can accept the tutor's opinions with an open mind and improve them; Whether the students are serious in writing their papers and attach great importance to details; Whether the students' graduation experiment plan can be completed on time and whether the students provide real experimental data records; Whether the writing format of students' graduation thesis is standardized.
Four, graduation thesis quality monitoring system inspection
1. Primary examination: teacher qualification examination; The type, scope and feasibility of the topic provided by the tutor; How to fill in the examination and approval form of topic selection, and how the teacher guides the students to fill in the task book of graduation thesis; Process arrangement, expected difficulties and solutions; Students' opening reports, surveys and information consultation.
2. Mid-term examination of thesis. (1) Whether the students have changed the topic content in their graduation thesis; The quality and progress of students' tasks in the previous stage; Whether the students complete the experiment independently; Instruct teachers whether to regularly call students to answer questions, give counseling, find out whether students can finish the project as scheduled, and formulate corresponding measures. (2) On the basis of guiding teachers and students to conduct self-examination, the heads of all teaching and research sections conduct mid-term inspections, requiring all teaching and research sections to organize students to make mid-term reports, grasp the progress of students' papers, find problems in time and correct them. On the basis of the summary of each teaching and research section, the college summarizes the mid-term examination materials and submits them to the Academic Affairs Office. Mid-term examination is a necessary monitoring measure to ensure the quality of graduation thesis.
3. Post-inspection, mainly including: organizing and implementing the defense; The standardization of students' graduation thesis writing; Instruct teachers and evaluate the quality of teachers' review and comments; The defense record of the defense team; Evaluation of defense scores, etc Before the defense, the academic secretary should examine the qualifications of the graduation thesis submitted by random sampling, and the defense can only be carried out after the qualification examination has passed. Instructors and reviewers investigate the topic and research content of the paper according to the topic type, and check whether the experimental design is consistent with the research results; Whether the main research content has basic data analysis and charts; Whether the paper is innovative; Whether there are reference sources for literature review; Review whether the writing of the paper is standardized. Students who fail to answer the questions will make a second reply after revision. After the defense, students can make amendments according to the questions raised by the teacher, and they can only submit them to the college after passing the examination. V. Handling of Graduation Thesis
1. Establish an evaluation and feedback mechanism to ensure the implementation of management. As planned? Realize? Check? The management of treatment runs circularly, analyzing the problems detected in the previous stage, finding out the reasons and taking corresponding measures. After improvement, it will run for a period of time. If there are no more questions, you can form the detailed rules for implementation into teaching documents in colleges and universities and file them for future reference. Establishing and perfecting rules and regulations is the premise of doing a good job in graduation thesis. The most prominent problem is how to adopt effective methods and means to implement these rules and regulations. In order to carry out all the work as planned and evaluate and quantify the work of students and teachers as objectively as possible, it is particularly important to establish a graduation network management information system. It is necessary to establish a smooth information feedback network, carry out real-time dynamic management of all aspects of graduation thesis, give full play to the role of information management system in the quality evaluation of graduation thesis, and make improvements and corrections in time.
2. Establish a three-level evaluation system for tutors, school experts and college experts to provide all-round and multi-level feedback on graduation evaluation information. First of all, the college set up a graduation thesis leading group to formulate the evaluation criteria for graduation thesis teaching. An expert evaluation and inspection team was set up in the hospital to check the graduation thesis from three aspects: working conditions, teaching process and teaching effect, combined with the general survey and extraction of graduation thesis writing at all stages. School experts were hired to spot-check the graduation thesis and found the weak links and unqualified items in the operation of the quality system. For the problems found in the audit, the relevant professional leaders should take corresponding rectification measures in time, and the college administrators should pay close attention to whether the rectification measures are really effective. If the rectification effect is not good, they should stop in time to implement more effective and feasible rectification measures to ensure the rectification effect and the quality of graduation thesis.
3. Take duplicate checking to avoid students' repetition in topic selection and experimental design, thus forcing students and teachers to attach importance to graduation thesis, and making graduation thesis innovative to some extent, thus ensuring the quality of graduation thesis.
In a word, aiming at the bottleneck problem that affects the quality of undergraduate graduation thesis at present, by systematically analyzing the problems existing in graduation thesis, combining with the problems raised by the graduation thesis inspection of the school teaching supervision group for many years, combining with the experience of teachers in guiding graduation thesis for many years and careless process management in teaching management, a systematic undergraduate graduation thesis monitoring system is established, so as to realize the scientific and standardized management of graduation thesis, which has important theoretical significance and practical application value for improving the quality of graduation thesis and innovative talents.
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