The Assessment Mode Reform of Professional Elective Course and Its Effect Anal

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Education Research Frontier June 2016, Volume 6, Issue 2, PP.64-68

The Assessment Mode Reform of Professional Elective Course and Its Effect Analysis Guo-feng ZOU, Gui-xia FU College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049 China Email: zgf841122@163.com

Abstract This paper is an exploration of assessment mode for elective courses of electronic and information engineering. Firstly, these problems of traditional assessment method of professional elective courses are analyzed; and then a novel assessment method is proposed. In this method, the final examination of professional elective course is divided into the students’ autonomous assessment and the final closed book examination. The autonomous assessment is a new assessment content, which more focuses on the training of the students’ ability and the comprehensive quality. After reform, the proportion of closed book exam is greatly reduced, which also reduces the students’ test pressure, and eliminates the teachers’ confusion. It is a more successful reform. Keywords: Autonomous Assessment; Reform of Assessment Mode; Professional Elective Courses

1 INTRODUCTION In 2012, the document about “several opinions on improving the quality of higher education” was published by the China’s Ministry of Education. To improve the quality of higher education, all-round reforms in education must be comprehensively deepened; the talent training scheme and course system must be gradually improved and updated; and talent cultivation mode must be continuously innovative [1]. Nowadays, the talent cultivation mode has mainly transformed from imparting knowledge to the combination of imparting knowledge, cultivating ability and improving quality [2, 3, 4]. Therefore, the transformation of talent cultivation idea for higher education will cause the reform of assessment method. In the author’s school, according to the requirement of the talent cultivation plan, the professional courses of electronic and information engineering are divided into professional compulsory courses ( such as high frequency electronic technology, the principle and application of DSP, etc.) and professional elective courses (such as computer networks,, basis of IOT, etc.). The teaching hours and depth of course content for professional elective courses are limited obviously. In the teaching process, the students do not pay enough attention; and the effect of classroom observations is not as good as we expect. Finally, the professional compulsory courses and the professional elective courses all use the closed-book exam evaluation mode. As the students do not firm grasp knowledge of professional elective courses, they often cram for exams, or even cheat in the examination. In order to avoid the spread of this problem, it is very necessary to explore the suitable ways of assessment for the professional elective courses.

2 TEACHERS’ CONFUSION AND STUDENTS’ CONFUSION By researching the assessment way of professional elective courses, we find that the traditional examination way brought much different confusion to teachers and students. (1) Teachers’ confusion: After the lecture, it is very difficult for the teachers to understand the students’ mastery of the course content, which causes much confusion when teachers set a question paper. Although teachers often ask questions in class and set up homework after class, but there still are many uncontrollable factors, such as copying homework masked their short board. These uncontrollable factors combined with the effects of classroom observations are not good, which makes the teacher not really know the degree of knowledge mastery of students. In this case, if the students are assessed, it is inevitable that the examination cannot really test the teachers’ teaching - 64 www.erfrontier.org


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