This paper starts with the analysis of the lack of students'innovation consciousness in the topic selection,and aims to improve the teachers cultivation of students innovation consciousness in the process of stude...This paper starts with the analysis of the lack of students'innovation consciousness in the topic selection,and aims to improve the teachers cultivation of students innovation consciousness in the process of students topic selection.Five guidelines:guide students to bring forth new ideas in“minor topic selection”,combine with the practical situation of the major,seek for innovation in the intersection of multiple disciplines,seek for innovation in previous research problems and seek for innovation in problem discussion.展开更多
Undergraduate graduation design is an important link in the process of undergraduate training,and university platforms have invested a lot of manpower and material resources for this purpose.However,while carrying out...Undergraduate graduation design is an important link in the process of undergraduate training,and university platforms have invested a lot of manpower and material resources for this purpose.However,while carrying out student training,it has gradually become the consensus of most university platforms to achieve a win-win situation for teachers and training platforms in order to achieve optimization of resource allocation and motivation of student training.After discussion and practice,this paper proposes a set of undergraduate graduation design training concepts and training modes with a win-win situation for students,teachers,and training platforms.展开更多
In order to improve the quality of graduation project (thesis) of mechanical and electrical undergraduate, cultivate students’ comprehensive innovation ability and practical application ability, and explore the integ...In order to improve the quality of graduation project (thesis) of mechanical and electrical undergraduate, cultivate students’ comprehensive innovation ability and practical application ability, and explore the integration of discipline competition into graduation project (thesis). The integration of subject competition with graduation project (thesis) of mechanical and electrical undergraduate course can improve the innovation and practicability of the selected topic, make up for the problem of short writing cycle, and strengthen students’ ability of analysis, research, writing and experimental design. This paper analyzes the implementation cases of the deep integration of subject competition and graduation design (thesis), and emphatically expounds the methods of the deep integration of subject competition and graduation design (thesis), so as to finally achieve the purpose of improving the graduation design (thesis) of electromechanical undergraduate. The research results of this paper have far-reaching practical significance.展开更多
Graduation project(thesis)is an important practice part in undergraduate education,which forms an organic whole with theoretical teaching link,and it is the continuation,deepening and examination of the theoretical te...Graduation project(thesis)is an important practice part in undergraduate education,which forms an organic whole with theoretical teaching link,and it is the continuation,deepening and examination of the theoretical teaching part.This paper focuses on the constitution that the lack of quality standards for undergraduate graduation design,resulting in different depth and breadth standards;the graduation design materials are scattered and lack of standardization,which leads to the lack of systematic reference materials for students,taking the tunnel and underground engineering major as an example,this paper carries out the practice research on the standardization of the graduation design of tunnel and underground engineering through investigation and combining the teaching resources accumulated in the past decades.Through the study of practice,the content of undergraduate graduation design of tunnel and underground engineering is standardized,the breadth and depth of graduation design is defined,and the“Guide for undergraduate graduation design of tunnel and underground engineering”is organized and compiled,which can provide reference for the standardization and guidance of undergraduate graduation design of tunnel and underground engineering.展开更多
With the intensification of climate change and ecological environmental degradation,the role of postgraduate landscape design disciplines in achieving sustainable development goals has become increasingly prominent.Na...With the intensification of climate change and ecological environmental degradation,the role of postgraduate landscape design disciplines in achieving sustainable development goals has become increasingly prominent.Nature-based Solutions(NbS),as an emerging concept,emphasize addressing social and environmental challenges through natural processes,offering a new direction for landscape design education.This study explored the reform of and reflections on landscape design courses for postgraduates guided by Nature-based Solutions.In response to the issues of disconnection between theory and practice and insufficient interdisciplinary integration in current graduate education in landscape design,this paper proposed a curriculum reform pathway oriented towards nature-based solutions.A new model for cultivating postgraduates in landscape design was explored by reconstructing the curriculum system,innovating teaching methods,and improving evaluation mechanisms.Moreover,drawing on the practical case of graduate teaching at Zhongyuan University of Technology,specific implementation strategies and outcomes of the curriculum reform were analyzed.This paper also reflected on the challenges encountered during the reform process and proposed corresponding optimization suggestions,aiming to provide a reference for the innovative development of graduate education in landscape design in China.展开更多
This paper provides a critical analysis of the design and implementation of Graduate English 1 for 1st year post graduates,9 credits to gain toward the degree.Specifically,the paper examines the details of the module ...This paper provides a critical analysis of the design and implementation of Graduate English 1 for 1st year post graduates,9 credits to gain toward the degree.Specifically,the paper examines the details of the module specification template(MST) and provides an analysis on the aims,objectives,teaching methods,learning outcomes and assessment within the learning program,with reference to current theory on curriculum design and assessment.展开更多
Computing students face the problem with time and quality of the work while managing their graduation/senior projects.Rapid Application Development(RAD)model is based on continual user involvement for the process of r...Computing students face the problem with time and quality of the work while managing their graduation/senior projects.Rapid Application Development(RAD)model is based on continual user involvement for the process of requirement gathering via prototyping.After each iteration,the developers can validate the requirements that are completed in the iteration.Managing a project with RAD is easier but not flexible.On the other hand,Agile project management techniques focus on flexibility,agility,teamwork and quality based on user stories.Continual user involvement is avoided,which requires extensive maintenance time for fixing iteration and release of the story points.This also makes it necessary to provide onsite training to the users of the application.This research provides the pros and cons of RAD and Agile project management techniques,to help students in deciding the best approach for managing their graduation projects.For the evaluation of these techniques,similar case studies were given to the senior project students(having similar CGPAs)for building similar functionality-based applications.The two projects“Life Organizer”developed and managed using RAD and“Smart Patient Assistant(SPA)”developed and managed through Agile methodology were evaluated against the quality assurance criteria for senior projects.The study found that the project developed with RAD methodology performed 13.33%better in providing extensive and elaborated documentation than the students following the Agile technique.On the other hand,SPA-Agile based project,due to teamwork had 2.5%better implementation than Life Organizer-RAD based project.展开更多
Graduate education is the main way to train high-level innovative talents,the basic layout to cope with the global talent competition,and the important cornerstone for implementing the innovation-driven development st...Graduate education is the main way to train high-level innovative talents,the basic layout to cope with the global talent competition,and the important cornerstone for implementing the innovation-driven development strategy and building an innovation-driven country.Therefore,graduate education is of great remarkably to the development of national education.As an important manifestation of graduate education,the quality of a graduate thesis should receive more attention.It is conducive to promoting the quality of graduates by supervising and examining the quality of the graduate thesis.For this purpose,this work is based on textmining,expert interviews,and questionnaire surveys to obtain the factors influencing the quality of a graduate thesis first.Then,through three rounds of expert consultation,a multidimensional evaluation indicator system for the graduate thesis quality is built.Furthermore,probabilistic linguistic termsets(PLTSs)are utilized to obtain the initial evaluation information and apply the stepwise weight assessment ratio analysis method to determine the weights of attributes.In the ensuing step,the novel multi-attribute border approximation area comparison based on the PLTS method is established.Finally,the proposed method is employed in a case study concerning the quality evaluation of a graduate thesis and the effectiveness of this approach is further illustrated.展开更多
In this paper, we take Tourism Vocational English for example, through the analysis of the problems and contradictions in vocational high school practice, around the vocational training objectives, make in-depth discu...In this paper, we take Tourism Vocational English for example, through the analysis of the problems and contradictions in vocational high school practice, around the vocational training objectives, make in-depth discussion of reform and innovation of graduation comprehensive practice mode from the overall design, stage promotion and process management.展开更多
Professional certification is an important way to promote professional construction and the quality of personnel training.Undergraduate thesis is an important part of comprehensive training for agricultural students,a...Professional certification is an important way to promote professional construction and the quality of personnel training.Undergraduate thesis is an important part of comprehensive training for agricultural students,and it is also one of the"prescribed actions"of professional certification examination.Based on the perspective of professional certification,taking the graduation thesis of Agronomy Major of Southwest University in recent five years as an example,this paper analyzes the reasons for the gap between the quality of graduation thesis and professional certification standards,and puts forward six paths to improve the quality of graduation thesis of agricultural undergraduates,such as more independent topic selection,more diversified forms,multilink submission materials online,relaxed time,and adding graduation thesis index We should guide the project,link up the construction of professional core courses,build a"learning community between teachers and students".展开更多
Undergraduate thesis is not only an important indicator to test students' academic and academic level, but also an important indicator to measure whether students have the undergraduate qualification. This paper d...Undergraduate thesis is not only an important indicator to test students' academic and academic level, but also an important indicator to measure whether students have the undergraduate qualification. This paper discusses several problems in the graduation thesis of Japanese major in finance and economics university and puts forward some solutions, so as to help teachers and students in writing Japanese graduation thesis of finance and economics university and improve the writing quality of undergraduate thesis.展开更多
Purpose: This paper aims to explore best practices in academic and research libraries in providing information literacy(IL) instruction to science and engineering graduate students.Design/methodology/approach: Using t...Purpose: This paper aims to explore best practices in academic and research libraries in providing information literacy(IL) instruction to science and engineering graduate students.Design/methodology/approach: Using the questionnaire survey method, we conducted an IL assessment study on 114 graduate students enrolling in graduate courses offered by College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(GUCAS).Findings: The current situation of graduate students' IL competencies and the need to develop them are revealed. An IL course was designed by subject librarians of National Science Library(NSL), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), with three patterns addressing the development of graduate students' IL competencies.Research limitations: It is only about the practice of subject librarians at NSL, CAS, in designing IL courses for graduate students enrolling in graduate courses offered by College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, GUCAS.Practical implications: The results can provide a lot of useful information for the improvement of IL competencies of graduate students in science and technology disciplines.Originality/value: It is significant for assisting future subject librarians in incorporating IL skills into their course, especially for academic and research librarians to prepare and develop IL courses for science and engineering graduate students.展开更多
Recently,the State Council has set higher standards for the graduation thesis of undergraduates.Most undergraduate colleges and universities have issued their own policies in which private colleges and universities ha...Recently,the State Council has set higher standards for the graduation thesis of undergraduates.Most undergraduate colleges and universities have issued their own policies in which private colleges and universities have paid more attention to this issue in which several local experts have conducted many research on the course of academic thesis writing.The Inner Mongolia Honder College of Arts and Sciences is used as an example in this article.Using the questionnaire survey and interview method,the current situation of the academic thesis writing course in private colleges is analyzed and its reform in private colleges and universities is explored in hope to provide some reference for future research.展开更多
文摘This paper starts with the analysis of the lack of students'innovation consciousness in the topic selection,and aims to improve the teachers cultivation of students innovation consciousness in the process of students topic selection.Five guidelines:guide students to bring forth new ideas in“minor topic selection”,combine with the practical situation of the major,seek for innovation in the intersection of multiple disciplines,seek for innovation in previous research problems and seek for innovation in problem discussion.
基金Hebei Provincial Department of Science and Technology Youth Science Fund Project(Project number:C2022407007)。
文摘Undergraduate graduation design is an important link in the process of undergraduate training,and university platforms have invested a lot of manpower and material resources for this purpose.However,while carrying out student training,it has gradually become the consensus of most university platforms to achieve a win-win situation for teachers and training platforms in order to achieve optimization of resource allocation and motivation of student training.After discussion and practice,this paper proposes a set of undergraduate graduation design training concepts and training modes with a win-win situation for students,teachers,and training platforms.
文摘In order to improve the quality of graduation project (thesis) of mechanical and electrical undergraduate, cultivate students’ comprehensive innovation ability and practical application ability, and explore the integration of discipline competition into graduation project (thesis). The integration of subject competition with graduation project (thesis) of mechanical and electrical undergraduate course can improve the innovation and practicability of the selected topic, make up for the problem of short writing cycle, and strengthen students’ ability of analysis, research, writing and experimental design. This paper analyzes the implementation cases of the deep integration of subject competition and graduation design (thesis), and emphatically expounds the methods of the deep integration of subject competition and graduation design (thesis), so as to finally achieve the purpose of improving the graduation design (thesis) of electromechanical undergraduate. The research results of this paper have far-reaching practical significance.
文摘Graduation project(thesis)is an important practice part in undergraduate education,which forms an organic whole with theoretical teaching link,and it is the continuation,deepening and examination of the theoretical teaching part.This paper focuses on the constitution that the lack of quality standards for undergraduate graduation design,resulting in different depth and breadth standards;the graduation design materials are scattered and lack of standardization,which leads to the lack of systematic reference materials for students,taking the tunnel and underground engineering major as an example,this paper carries out the practice research on the standardization of the graduation design of tunnel and underground engineering through investigation and combining the teaching resources accumulated in the past decades.Through the study of practice,the content of undergraduate graduation design of tunnel and underground engineering is standardized,the breadth and depth of graduation design is defined,and the“Guide for undergraduate graduation design of tunnel and underground engineering”is organized and compiled,which can provide reference for the standardization and guidance of undergraduate graduation design of tunnel and underground engineering.
基金Supported by Postgraduate Education Reform and Quality Improvement Project of Henan Province in 2023(YIS2023JC12).
文摘With the intensification of climate change and ecological environmental degradation,the role of postgraduate landscape design disciplines in achieving sustainable development goals has become increasingly prominent.Nature-based Solutions(NbS),as an emerging concept,emphasize addressing social and environmental challenges through natural processes,offering a new direction for landscape design education.This study explored the reform of and reflections on landscape design courses for postgraduates guided by Nature-based Solutions.In response to the issues of disconnection between theory and practice and insufficient interdisciplinary integration in current graduate education in landscape design,this paper proposed a curriculum reform pathway oriented towards nature-based solutions.A new model for cultivating postgraduates in landscape design was explored by reconstructing the curriculum system,innovating teaching methods,and improving evaluation mechanisms.Moreover,drawing on the practical case of graduate teaching at Zhongyuan University of Technology,specific implementation strategies and outcomes of the curriculum reform were analyzed.This paper also reflected on the challenges encountered during the reform process and proposed corresponding optimization suggestions,aiming to provide a reference for the innovative development of graduate education in landscape design in China.
文摘This paper provides a critical analysis of the design and implementation of Graduate English 1 for 1st year post graduates,9 credits to gain toward the degree.Specifically,the paper examines the details of the module specification template(MST) and provides an analysis on the aims,objectives,teaching methods,learning outcomes and assessment within the learning program,with reference to current theory on curriculum design and assessment.
文摘Computing students face the problem with time and quality of the work while managing their graduation/senior projects.Rapid Application Development(RAD)model is based on continual user involvement for the process of requirement gathering via prototyping.After each iteration,the developers can validate the requirements that are completed in the iteration.Managing a project with RAD is easier but not flexible.On the other hand,Agile project management techniques focus on flexibility,agility,teamwork and quality based on user stories.Continual user involvement is avoided,which requires extensive maintenance time for fixing iteration and release of the story points.This also makes it necessary to provide onsite training to the users of the application.This research provides the pros and cons of RAD and Agile project management techniques,to help students in deciding the best approach for managing their graduation projects.For the evaluation of these techniques,similar case studies were given to the senior project students(having similar CGPAs)for building similar functionality-based applications.The two projects“Life Organizer”developed and managed using RAD and“Smart Patient Assistant(SPA)”developed and managed through Agile methodology were evaluated against the quality assurance criteria for senior projects.The study found that the project developed with RAD methodology performed 13.33%better in providing extensive and elaborated documentation than the students following the Agile technique.On the other hand,SPA-Agile based project,due to teamwork had 2.5%better implementation than Life Organizer-RAD based project.
文摘Graduate education is the main way to train high-level innovative talents,the basic layout to cope with the global talent competition,and the important cornerstone for implementing the innovation-driven development strategy and building an innovation-driven country.Therefore,graduate education is of great remarkably to the development of national education.As an important manifestation of graduate education,the quality of a graduate thesis should receive more attention.It is conducive to promoting the quality of graduates by supervising and examining the quality of the graduate thesis.For this purpose,this work is based on textmining,expert interviews,and questionnaire surveys to obtain the factors influencing the quality of a graduate thesis first.Then,through three rounds of expert consultation,a multidimensional evaluation indicator system for the graduate thesis quality is built.Furthermore,probabilistic linguistic termsets(PLTSs)are utilized to obtain the initial evaluation information and apply the stepwise weight assessment ratio analysis method to determine the weights of attributes.In the ensuing step,the novel multi-attribute border approximation area comparison based on the PLTS method is established.Finally,the proposed method is employed in a case study concerning the quality evaluation of a graduate thesis and the effectiveness of this approach is further illustrated.
文摘In this paper, we take Tourism Vocational English for example, through the analysis of the problems and contradictions in vocational high school practice, around the vocational training objectives, make in-depth discussion of reform and innovation of graduation comprehensive practice mode from the overall design, stage promotion and process management.
基金This paper is the research results of the key project of education and teaching reform of Southwest University(Project No.:2020jy050),the research project of Chongqing higher education and teaching reform in 2019(193033),and the first batch of major special projects of Southwest University(2019zdjy001)。
文摘Professional certification is an important way to promote professional construction and the quality of personnel training.Undergraduate thesis is an important part of comprehensive training for agricultural students,and it is also one of the"prescribed actions"of professional certification examination.Based on the perspective of professional certification,taking the graduation thesis of Agronomy Major of Southwest University in recent five years as an example,this paper analyzes the reasons for the gap between the quality of graduation thesis and professional certification standards,and puts forward six paths to improve the quality of graduation thesis of agricultural undergraduates,such as more independent topic selection,more diversified forms,multilink submission materials online,relaxed time,and adding graduation thesis index We should guide the project,link up the construction of professional core courses,build a"learning community between teachers and students".
文摘Undergraduate thesis is not only an important indicator to test students' academic and academic level, but also an important indicator to measure whether students have the undergraduate qualification. This paper discusses several problems in the graduation thesis of Japanese major in finance and economics university and puts forward some solutions, so as to help teachers and students in writing Japanese graduation thesis of finance and economics university and improve the writing quality of undergraduate thesis.
文摘Purpose: This paper aims to explore best practices in academic and research libraries in providing information literacy(IL) instruction to science and engineering graduate students.Design/methodology/approach: Using the questionnaire survey method, we conducted an IL assessment study on 114 graduate students enrolling in graduate courses offered by College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(GUCAS).Findings: The current situation of graduate students' IL competencies and the need to develop them are revealed. An IL course was designed by subject librarians of National Science Library(NSL), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), with three patterns addressing the development of graduate students' IL competencies.Research limitations: It is only about the practice of subject librarians at NSL, CAS, in designing IL courses for graduate students enrolling in graduate courses offered by College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, GUCAS.Practical implications: The results can provide a lot of useful information for the improvement of IL competencies of graduate students in science and technology disciplines.Originality/value: It is significant for assisting future subject librarians in incorporating IL skills into their course, especially for academic and research librarians to prepare and develop IL courses for science and engineering graduate students.
文摘Recently,the State Council has set higher standards for the graduation thesis of undergraduates.Most undergraduate colleges and universities have issued their own policies in which private colleges and universities have paid more attention to this issue in which several local experts have conducted many research on the course of academic thesis writing.The Inner Mongolia Honder College of Arts and Sciences is used as an example in this article.Using the questionnaire survey and interview method,the current situation of the academic thesis writing course in private colleges is analyzed and its reform in private colleges and universities is explored in hope to provide some reference for future research.
