Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Overall Plan for Deepening Educational Evaluation Reform in the New Era", calling for the reversal of unscientific education evaluation orientation, especially related reforms related to teacher evaluation, which has aroused widespread concern in society and the industry.

  The reason for the “reform plan” is that the “five wei” problems of “only academic qualifications, only qualifications, only hats, only papers, and only projects” have appeared in the evaluation of college teachers for a long time. "Promotional Pain" in

In recent years, hundreds of colleges and universities have explored the reform of professional title evaluation in an attempt to change this situation. What is the effect and current situation?

What are the problems that plague universities and teachers?

▌Change in the evaluation of professional titles in colleges and universities, "a ruler to evaluate all"

  The quality of teaching, whether students are making progress, these difficult to quantify content, were once marginalized in the evaluation of professional titles in many colleges and universities. "Evaluate all with a ruler" and "quantify scientific research papers", which have appeared in the evaluation of professional titles in many universities in the past. The problem is also a microcosm of the promotion process of many college teachers.

In addition, many colleges and universities regard patents, undertaking projects, awards, and overseas (outbound) learning experience as restrictive conditions for professional title evaluation.

The lack of process evaluation and classification evaluation has not only dampened the teaching enthusiasm of many teachers, but also seriously affected the training of talents.

▌Promulgated opinions and plans to reform the evaluation system of college teachers

  Facing the problems in the evaluation of college teachers, in July this year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Education specially researched and drafted the "Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Teachers' Title System in Colleges and Universities (Draft for Comment)". Not long ago, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council In the "Overall Plan for Deepening Educational Evaluation Reform in the New Era", many points in the opinion draft have also been included.

In the opinions and plans, it is proposed to take the teacher's ethics and style as the first standard, highlighting the ability and performance of education and teaching.

  In the "Overall Plan" of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, policies were designed to improve the evaluation of university teachers' scientific research and evaluation of institutions of higher learning.

According to the characteristics of different disciplines and different positions, adhere to the classification evaluation, implement the evaluation of representative results, explore the long-term evaluation, improve the peer expert evaluation mechanism, and focus on the combination of individual evaluation and team evaluation.

Exploring special methods for evaluating scientific research of teachers in special fields such as national defense science and technology. For those who have made major theoretical innovations, breakthroughs in cutting-edge technology, solved major engineering and technical problems, and made major contributions to the development of economic and social undertakings, thesis may not be restricted when applying for senior titles .

  In the "Draft for Solicitation of Comments", it is also proposed to categorize and hierarchically evaluate teachers of different types and levels, according to job categories, such as philosophy, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering and technology and other disciplines, basic research, applied research, etc. Research types and establish scientific and reasonable classification and hierarchical evaluation standards.

  At the same time, the "Draft for Solicitation of Opinions" is clear to overcome the tendency of only academic qualifications, qualifications, "hats", essays, and projects only.

It is not simply restrictive conditions such as papers, patents, undertaking projects, awards, and study experience abroad (out of the country).

Gradually standardize the index of academic papers. The number of papers published and the citation list of papers are only used as evaluation references, and paper-related indexes such as SCI (Science Citation Index) are not used as direct basis for preconditions and judgments.

Articles published in domestic and foreign journals shall be treated equally, and more results shall be encouraged to be published in influential domestic journals.

It is not allowed to simply stipulate conditions such as the number of scientific research projects and the scale of funding.

The honorary title of talents shall not be used as a restrictive condition for the evaluation of professional titles, and the application materials for professional titles shall not be provided with a column for filling in the talent "hat" title, and the practice of directly linking the selected talent plan with the evaluation of professional titles shall be cancelled.

▌ "Broken" and "Established" in the reform of professional titles

  Focusing on breaking the irrational concept of employing people, such as emphasizing scientific research and neglecting teaching, emphasizing teaching and negligence of educating people, abandon simplistic and quantitative evaluation methods, and guide universities to establish a moral, ability, and process-oriented talent use mechanism, which reflects both The voices of university teachers also let us see the country's determination to evaluate the employment of universities and reform professional titles.

According to the requirements, the right to appraise the professional titles of college teachers will be directly delegated to colleges and universities. Then the simple evaluation of the former has been "broken". How will the new education evaluation be established?

How to formulate the new standard?

  Thanks to the comprehensive title reform, 103 teachers of Northwest A&F University were promoted through the new method of title evaluation.

The latest evaluation method of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University has refined the detailed rules for more than ten series of professional title evaluation for different types of teachers. The core of the reform is to break the single simple evaluation and move towards comprehensive and pluralistic.

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  At Nanchang University, Zhang Jianli, a young scholar born in the 1980s, was promoted directly from an assistant researcher to an associate researcher by virtue of a key technology that made my country lead the world in yellow LEDs. The same extraordinary promotion was the post-85 researcher Chen Jun. Taking the jujube with Jiangxi characteristics as the research object, it has increased the income of farmers by 495 million yuan.

This all stems from the school's special special zone title reform review system, which breaks a series of shackles such as papers and qualifications, and evaluates based on actual performance contribution.

  Xiong Wei, Director of the Personnel Department of Nanchang University: "Not only books, not foreigners, not only superiors, only real", how much you contribute to the subject, personal evaluation and team evaluation are also one of the evaluation criteria.

▌Excellent lectures with differentiated evaluation can also stand out

  At Beijing Institute of Technology, Faye Wong, a physics teacher, relied on her fascinating classrooms, and Fu Tie, a teacher at the Mechanical Design Engineering Training Center, through the excellent performance of tutoring students in technological innovation, and both stood out in this year's job title review.

However, it was difficult for this type of performance to have an advantage in job title review before.

  Beginning in 2016, Beijing Institute of Technology has made vigorous reforms in the evaluation of professional titles, and vigorously implemented classified management and evaluation.

The school sets the basic threshold, and the academic committees of each discipline formulate evaluation standards according to the characteristics of the disciplines, and implement differentiated evaluations. At the same time, in order to ensure fairness, the use of peer review, public defense and other methods to strengthen supervision, introduces many in the initial evaluation process of the college For one-third of the peer experts outside the school, the second round of school submissions will increase the sample size of high-level external samples, and ensure the quality of evaluation by referring to the evaluation of high-level experts.

In addition, the school has also established a special supervision group to track and evaluate the teaching and research process and strengthen daily management.

▌Break the "Five Onlys" to release vitality while maintaining the bottom line

  During the investigation, the reporter found that some colleges and universities have carried out many useful explorations starting from breaking the "five wei" such as only papers and only hats. As the evaluation of professional titles is all decentralized to colleges and universities, for most universities, the latest series of standards Document requirements, there is still a long way to go.

Experts also reminded that breaking the "Five Onlys" is by no means releasing water. It is necessary to get rid of shackles and release vitality, but also to hold the bottom line and scientifically evaluate.

  Chen Yuehong, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Southern University of Science and Technology, told reporters that the true meaning of breaking the "five wei" is not to ignore the qualifications and achievements at all, but to not only look at the five qualifications, qualifications, hats, papers, and projects. Dimensions.

  Yan Yan, director of the Human Resources Department of Beijing Institute of Technology, said that for most colleges and universities, the reform of professional titles still has a long way to go. Although some colleges and universities have made useful attempts in the reform of professional titles, how can they be improved with the development of disciplines? The good use of the quality of education for teacher evaluation is still a subject that needs to be improved continuously.

  This is a "hard leverage" that has long been persisted in the previous job title evaluation work. This "hard leverage" has allowed many people to get the promotion they deserve. In practice, it also blocked some talents who should be promoted.

The reform of the title system is to seek truth from facts to improve the evaluation method of scientific and technological talents, overcome the tendency of only papers, academic qualifications, and awards only, take the activity and influence of the subject field, and the efficiency of achievement transformation as important evaluation indicators, and remove the hands and feet of talents from the constraints of red tape. Liberate from the process, concentrate the knowledge and energy of the talents, and do what they should do.

  Only by making the evaluation of professional titles truly return to the nature of academic and honor, can outstanding talents receive reasonable returns and release their innovative vitality.

The construction of an innovative country requires innovative talents; the emergence and contribution of innovative talents requires a scientific talent evaluation system.

(CCTV reporter Gao Chenyuan)