Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of Educational Evaluation in the New Era: Experience
As a member of the school's experimenter team, Rao Qunli from the Analysis and Testing Center of the school-level public service support platform of Shanghai Jiao Tong University has helped the faculty and faculty to solve experimental problems through innovative application and research of X-ray diffractometer orientation, and helped the scientific research team of the school to make important progress in five technical directions, including the preparation of superconducting materials and the composition analysis of organic and metal mixed materials. In January 2021, Rao Qunli was promoted to the title of researcher for his outstanding post contributions.
In recent years, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has adhered to the talent development concept of "classified development and multiple evaluation", deepened the reform of multiple evaluation of teachers, smoothed the development channels of various talents, and promoted the formation of a multi-dimensional talent development mechanism and cultural environment where "everyone can become a talent and everyone can make the best use of their talents".
The 19 "tracks" encourage the development of teachers by category
Wang Yun, a teacher at the School of Design of Shanghai Jiaotong University, has been engaged in academic research, design practice and teaching of landscape architecture for more than 20 years, and has presided over a number of practical studies such as the inheritance of modern gardens in Shanghai and Jiangnan gardens, the evaluation of modern parks and green spaces and waterfront landscapes, and the renewal of public space and landscape in high-density urban areas in the Yangtze River Delta. However, due to the lack of sci**, Wang Yun has not been able to apply for a title promotion before.
In October 2019, the "Implementation Rules for the Appointment of Practical Applied (Art) Professional and Technical Positions in the Humanities and Social Sciences of Shanghai Jiao Tong University" was officially promulgated.
This is the first time that I have applied for the title of senior high school in many years, and I thank the school for opening up a development channel for us. Wang Yun said.
In recent years, Shanghai Jiaotong University has deepened the evaluation reform and issued a series of professional and technical job appointment documents, forming 19 "tracks" such as equal emphasis on teaching and scientific research, teaching, scientific research, experiments, engineering, party affairs, ideology and politics, higher education management, graphics, publishing (periodicals), archives and museums, etc., providing teachers with a channel for classified development.
For researchers who have been engaged in the application and promotion of agricultural technology and rural development planning for a long time, we will focus on practical technologies that can be popularized on a large scale and achieve significant economic benefits, or rural development planning and design schemes that can be recognized by the industryFor faculty members in the liberal arts who are engaged in practical fields such as the application of art, the emphasis is on the industry or social influence ...... the artworks, film and television works, or practical cases they createAfter the reform, the evaluation criteria of Shanghai Jiaotong University have given more prominence to the results and results of practical research results, fully respected the characteristics of discipline differences and the law of talent development, and a group of outstanding teachers have been successfully promoted.
"Representative achievements" stimulate innovation vitality
In order to better break the "five onlys", Shanghai Jiaotong University has explored the implementation of "representative achievements" evaluation in the appointment of professional and technical positions, established a chief researcher evaluation and appointment system, and more highlighted the quality and contribution orientation.
In 2007, Wang Xinze, a professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University, followed Professor Kong Hainan to Dali and devoted himself to the research work of the Erhai project of the "National Water Pollution Control and Treatment Science and Technology Major Project", which lasted for 16 years. In that year, Kong Hainan brought his first team to Dali, built the laboratory on the shore of Erhai Lake, and began the research work on the governance and protection of Erhai Lake, writing the story of "the old man and the sea". Now, Wang Xinze has taken over the responsibility of protecting Erhai Lake from Kong Hainan and has become the second generation of "Jiaotong University Water Control Man". In 2021, Wang Xinze, a "resident of Erhai Lake" who devotes 300 days of 365 days a year to environmental governance and protection, was awarded the "Chief Researcher" of Shanghai Jiaotong University.
The evaluation of representative achievements fully respects the differences of disciplines, gives full play to the main role of the academic community in academic evaluation, and the evaluation of talents is no longer purely based on topics, awards or awards, but pays more attention to the actual performance of the post.
In October 2021, two scientific and technological personnel engaged in the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements of the university were finally promoted to a series of researchers in the transformation of achievements through the procedures of professor meetings, external peer review, and university-level review meetings.
In the evaluation of teachers' teaching achievements, Shanghai Jiaotong University also expanded the evaluation of graduation quality sampling and test paper sampling, and revised the implementation rules for the identification of young teachers' participation in ideological and political work experience, attracted young teachers to participate in ideological and political work, and issued the "Guiding Opinions on the Construction of Undergraduate Class Teacher Team" to encourage high-level talents to participate in student training, and pay attention to the implementation of peer experts, college leaders, teacher self-evaluation, Diversified evaluation of teachers' teaching, including student evaluation, pays attention to teaching effectiveness, implements improvement measures, and continuously improves the teaching quality of teachers.
"Long-term evaluation" allows researchers to be bold
There is "breaking", but also "standing". Shanghai Jiaotong University continues to improve the talent evaluation system of "breaking and establishing at the same time", actively explores long-term evaluation methods that are in line with the laws of basic research, and pays attention to process evaluation and developmental evaluation, so that scientific researchers can devote their main energy to scientific and technological innovation.
On June 20, 2023, Shanghai Jiao Tong University released a batch of independent innovation research plans, including the "Basic Research Special Zone Plan" and the "Jiao Tong University 2030" plan.
Unveiling the leader, academician recommendation, college recommendation, project commissioner recommendation ......SJTU has designed a variety of selection mechanisms for the "Special Zone Program", aiming to effectively identify and receive timely support for basic and disruptive research in more non-consensus areas. Lin Tianquan, a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, was recommended by the project specialist in the energy field. When the commissioner learned that Lin Tianquan had always had a dream of combining photovoltaics and batteries, he encouraged him to develop all-weather, mobile, and long-term portable and stable power devices. In order to fully loosen the restrictions, for a period of time, the university does not set assessment indicators for scientific researchers, encouraging them to let go and be bold. In terms of the use of funds, the school has adopted a "lump sum system" with full decentralization.
The "Jiaotong University 2030" plan focuses on major basic research and key core technology research, and supports research projects in three categories. Class A projects are self-cultivated major scientific research projects, which support strategic scientists and leading talents in science and technology, face the national strategic needs and the advantages of the university, integrate various innovative elements and resources, and are recognized by the university and supported by special funds for strategic, forward-looking, leading and interdisciplinary research platforms and major projects. Category B projects are self-established key research topics, aiming at major basic science problems, advocating "0 to 1" original innovation, focusing on the core technology needs of major national strategies, and solving key problems in the development of major national equipment, major projects and key industries. Category C projects are self-established youth exploration**, which carry out high-risk, non-consensus, and disruptive research in the field of cutting-edge innovation, and select projects regardless of the title of scholars, only based on research potential, and invest project funds at one time, without strict assessment requirements for project results, which fully reflects the support for young talents and high-risk, non-consensus, and disruptive projects.
In 2022, Shen Tao, a "post-90s" researcher, joined the Center for Transformative Molecular Frontier Science of Shanghai Jiaotong University, focusing on the selective activation and recombination of inert bonds and green synthetic chemistry. What he didn't expect was that after just filling out a few pages of application materials and explaining one of his creative ideas, he won the school's C project funding.
In the case of tight funding for the research group, the 'Jiaotong University 2030' plan can really be described as a 'charcoal in the snow'. Shen Tao said that it was the school's affirmation and encouragement that allowed him to boldly explore the no-man's land, and the project is progressing very smoothly and has achieved relevant results.
China Education News, December 31, 2023, page 1
Author: Ren Zhaoxia, reporter of this newspaper.