Every time you complete the learning task of a course and meet the learning requirements, you will get corresponding credits, which will eventually add up to an important standard to measure the Excellence of college students during their school days, which has a great relationship with graduation, further study and evaluation. Some schools also use credits as the charging standard.
University credit system I. Overview of credit system
The credit system refers to a comprehensive teaching management system with course selection as the core, identity as the auxiliary, and measuring students' learning quality through grade points and credits. The credit system originated from Harvard University in the United States, and it is also called the three major educational models together with the class system and tutorial system.
Second, the classification of the credit system
1, academic year credit system
It has the characteristics of academic year limitation and complete credit system. It not only retains the characteristics of strong planning of academic year system and strict and complete professional classification, but also has some advantages of credit system, such as giving students a certain degree of freedom in elective courses.
2. Complete credit system
The complete credit system is a teaching management system with the total graduation credits that must be obtained as the graduation standard. It requires that according to the training objectives and the number of hours in each course and teaching link in the teaching plan, the credits of each course should be determined, compulsory courses and elective courses should be set up, and the proportion of each course and the minimum total credits allowed for students to graduate should be specified.
3, grade point credit system
The grade point credit system is a teaching management system based on the credit system, which can show the quality of students' academic performance in various courses, as well as the academic year quality and graduation total score. Its calculation formula is: credit grade point = credit × grade point.
4. Weighted credit system
Weighted credit system is also a teaching management system based on credit system, which can show students' learning quality of some key courses and distinguish students' professional level. Implement weighted credits, credits in the teaching plan, differences in academic performance according to course categories, etc. , respectively, determine different weight coefficients, multiply the planned credits by the weight coefficients to get weighted credits, so as to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of students' academic performance and serve as an important basis for selecting top students, evaluating outstanding students and awarding awards.
5. Additional credit system
Additional credit system is a teaching management system, which requires students to complete the minimum credits stipulated in the teaching plan and extracurricular credits before graduation. Generally speaking, extracurricular credits can be evaluated according to students' participation in academic competitions, ideological and moral work, cultural and sports activities, public welfare activities, etc.