Research on Calculation Method of Graduation Requirements

Chunyan Wang Hao Sun Yuanyuan Li

【Abstract】Graduation requirements are the main quantitative indicators for engineering education certification， which plays an important role in assessing the quality of undergraduate professional education and guiding the development of undergraduate professional education. In order to reduce the difficulty and complexity of the calculation of the degree of achievement， this paper gives the evaluation method and the specific calculation realization process of the graduation requirement. Taking the analysis of the graduation requirement achievement index of the students of the school’s measurement and control technology and instrumentation as an example， the calculation results of the achievement degree of a certain class are analyzed statistically.

【Key words】Engineering education professional certification; graduation requirements; achievement calculation

【作者簡介】Chunyan Wang， Hao Sun， Yuanyuan Li， School of Opto-Electronic Engineering， Changchun University of Science and Technology.

1. Preface

The engineering education professional certification system is an external evaluation of the quality of personnel training in the industry and engineering education. The quality of student training is recognized，the core is to confirm that engineering graduates meet the established quality standards recognized by the industry. This is a qualification evaluation for training objectives and graduation export requirements. Doing this work earnestly is a key part of improving the quality of college graduates in China.

This paper introduces the research results of the graduation requirements and the application of the measurement and control technology and instrumentation in the evaluation of higher engineering education.

2. Graduation requirements achievement evaluation system

The professional graduation requirement is assessed for two years， and the assessment of the graduation requirements for the course is once a year. The basis for the evaluation of the degree of achievement is the assessment materials for each teaching session， and the degree of achievement of graduation requirements is assessed by the “Course Assessment Analysis Method”. The evaluation system stipulates the evaluation basis and evaluation personnel of various teaching activities to ensure the effectiveness of the evaluation.

3. Graduation requirements achievement evaluation method

The method of assessing the degree of graduation requirements is measured by specific indicator points.

First， break down each graduation requirement and get specific indicator points that can arrange the teaching content and measure its effectiveness. Each graduation requirement usually corresponds to 2-4 indicator points. Then determine the supporting relationship between the teaching links （courses and practices） of each graduation requirement indicator point. When evaluating the degree of achievement of each indicator point， according to the implementation of the current syllabus， combined with the index point decomposition， select a course that is highly correlated with each indicator point for analysis and assign weight values. The sum of the selected course weight target values that support a certain indicator point is 1.0.

At present， the evaluation methods[4] for the degree of graduation requirements generally adopted by colleges and universities include “assessment analysis method” and “score analysis method”.

3.1 Assessment score analysis method

Sample extraction： the principle of sample extraction is to ensure that the ratios of good， medium and poor are basically equal， and usually a teaching class is taken as a sample;

Course support for graduation requirements： For example， the weight coefficient of the course supporting the index of a graduation requirement is 0.4， and the total score of the test paper is 100 points. The total score of the questions that are extracted to support the indicator points is 20 points， and the average score of the sample students on the selected questions is 15 points. The course evaluation value of the support index points is： evaluation value = 0.4 × （15/20） = 0.3.

3.2 Score table analysis

By developing detailed and measurable evaluation indicators， a score form is formed.Sample drawing： For graduates and employers， take a teaching class as a sample;Design a score sheet.Summarize the evaluation results.For each graduation requirement， the lowest score of each sub-item is taken as the final score， and the final evaluation result of each graduation requirement is obtained.

4. Calculation of the degree of graduation requirements

The evaluation of the graduation requirements of Changchun University of Science and Technology is mainly based on the assessment materials of each teaching course， and the evaluation of graduation requirements is evaluated by the “assessment analysis method”. Here， taking the error theory and data processing course of our school’s measurement and control technology and instrument specialty as an example， the implementation process of the specific calculation method is explained.

4.1 Graduation Requirements Completion Calculation Basis

The graduation degree is calculated based on the following formula：

∑The weight target value of suppot course=1.0

Graduation requirement= ∑Weight ×Support the achievement of the course objectives

Graduation requirement achievement evaluation value = Graduation requirement / Number of support courses

4.2 Graduation requirements to achieve degree

In order to make the calculations operability and facilitate teacher to use and course statistics， The software specially designed for course achievement calculation was compiled， and the calculation results were statistically analyzed.

When the original grade is entered， all the scores of a natural class should be entered. When the results of the test results are entered， the scores of each sub-question should be entered into the corresponding positions. The score of examination paper， the usual grades， and the experimental grades should be entered separately.

Then， the weight of the above scores and the correlation coefficient are input into the program， and after all the data is input into the program， the results of the achievement of the course objectives and the degree of achievement of the graduation requirements of each student can be calculated.

Finally， the final scores of each student are summarized and output， and the score distribution table and the course objectives as well as the graduation result transcripts can be clearly seen from the interface. From the result output table， the achievement of graduation requirements of the students that in major we can analyzed easily. It can be seen that it is very convenient to use the program to calculate the degree of graduation requirements， which greatly reduces the workload of the teaching staff， and can be used to analyze the other classes， other majors and even other schools. It is of great significance for the follow-up of teaching work and the certification work of engineering majors.

5. Achieving situation analysis

From the output， we can see that the results of the《Error Theory and Data Processing》course of the 1502111 class have basically reached the level of good and above， and the students’ achievement of the goal of the course has reached more than 84%， for the course goal and the achievement of the graduation requirements is generally better.

The achievement of the course objectives and graduation requirements is higher than 84%. It can be seen that the teaching tasks of the 《Error Theory and Data Processing》course are quite good. Among them， the achievement of the course objectives 4 is the highest， and the achievement of the course objectives 3 is lower， 2 and 5 comes second. Therefore， the recommendation of the relevant teaching group is to increase the training of the college students in the course goal 3， for the course objectives 2 and 5 also strive to pull up.

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