University Teaching Quality Monitoring Plays an Essential Role in

University Teaching Quality Monitoring Plays an Essential Role in
High Education System
ZHANG Shijun
School of Economics & Management Henan Polytechnic University, P.R.China,454010
Abstract: Quality is the lifeline of higher education. Based on College Teaching Quality Monitoring the
presence of "five enough to spares, five shortage" problem resolution, the idea of setting up a scientific
and standardized, with the actual school quality standards. Monitoring the quality of teaching reform
ideas, focus on the implementation of the monitoring and general surveillance innovative thinking and
ideas, to monitor the quality of teaching gravity from the "oversight" to "control" changes, to the three
main measures to improve the teaching quality monitoring system and content, to further stabilize and
enhance the quality of teaching college.
Keywords: Teaching quality, Supervisory control, Problems, Countermeasures
1. Introduction
The higher education of our country gets into a period of high-speed scale to extend since 1998:The
number of the students in the school was 7,800,000 in 1998 and the number was more than 20,000,000
in 2004.The rate of a preliminary entrance to school of the higher education raises to 19% from 8%. The
number of the annual recruitment was 2,700,000 in 1998, campared with nearly six years ago and this
figure increased to 6,200,000 in 2004.Among them, the common high school solicit students increased
to 4,200,000 in 2004 from 1,080,000 in 1998.And the annual recruitment of the higher education raised
to 15% from 5%, the United States used for 30 years, England 25 years, France 28 years, Japan 23 years,
Korea 24 years, equally used for 26 years. The Chinese population scale shares 1/5 in the world, the
annual recruitment of the higher education rose to 15% from 5% only used for 10 years; this developed
a history in the higher education of the world, the tops all are rated as miracle. But facing the quickly
extending scale, we really have to discuss again, whether the quality of higher education attains a
synchronous development with amount or not? University of Peking 2004 that The development report
of Chinese academic degree and graduate student education , drawed 97 schools with common high
undergraduate course and 20 graduate schools as samples, including 99 representative directors in
graduate student institutes, 338 representative directors in development unit, 529 Doctor’s tutor, 495
Master’s tutor, 1908 Doctors and 3847 Masters, according to the result of the sample, the quality which
descended was 56.9%, elevated was 16%, basic stabilized was 27%.So we can get a first step of
judgment, the quality of the common higher education in our country still exists a very rigorous problem,
we should hold highly responsible to the party and the people, establish strategy and take into resolve in
earnest to make our Chinese nation stood erect in the wood of advanced race in the world firmly. The
common high school is the most important aspect of higher education, the teaching quality is the life
line of the high school, exaltation teaching quality is the topic of high school in the abyss of time, so
grasp the teaching quality of the common high school have a key function to raise the higher education
quality in our country. Seeing from the whole country, in order to promise, stabilize and raise teaching
quality, the great majority of the common high school built up more perfect teaching quality supervision
system. But seeing from the actual movement circumstance, widespread exist” five enough to spares,
five shortage”. And if these problems can not be get good resolved, the supervision system of the
teaching quality only can be a perfect decoration.
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2. Present condition guideline of common high school’s teaching quality
supervision
The basic method of supervision of the teaching quality in most high school can be generalized as
follows: The advice learns trouble and mistake to affirm with processing way, establishing the teaching
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quality supervision section room in the Dean’s Office, ascending to promise the supervision and the
information feedback of the teaching quality with organization on the system. Under the foundation of
lessoning system, including leaders in all levels, the staff of the teaching management and the teacher of
the same occupation, build up the quality supervision system of the school and department two class in
the more perfect pattern: the teaching councilor team practice council to the main teaching
link(classroom theories teaching and practice teaching link), and strengthen check and understanding to
the teaching order and the quality of the classroom teaching by listening to lesson, touring test and
random check...etc.,and give instruction to the relevant teaching work. Make use of every semester
mid-term teaching particularly check and normal regulations check, each teaching unit investigates to
combine together with school annual check. Carrying on system, valid dynamic state supervision and
management to teaching work of the quality of each vital link. Each teaching unit draws up a way
respectively, enhancing to investigate the teacher's teaching quality. During the incumbency calls the
judge works medium, insisting "a veto power" of the teaching quality of the school persistence. The
school organizes each grade, each professional student to convene symposium every semester, hearing
student's opinion to teaching aspect and suggestion, building up student’s teaching information member
system in the meantime, valuing feed backed information from student, organizing the student to
appraise teaching through Internet, make the result of the appraise teaching hook the teacher's workload
service fees. At the time of grasping graduate student to work, the school should adopt the way of” walk
out, just come in", building up the feedback information system of the graduate student, hearing to unit’s
extensively to the comprehensive evaluation that the talented person develops, excellent turn a talented
person to develop process, raise teaching quality.
3. Supervision of the teaching quality exists” five enough to spares, five shortage"
The above teaching quality supervises and controls system has aggressive function to promote the
exaltation of teaching quality. But seeing from oneself the teaching of management work practice
experience and investigation for several years, these usual teaching quality supervision measures still
exist the outstanding performance as the problem and the irregularity of” five enough to spares, five
shortage".
3.1 Process direct enough to spare, analysis sorting shortage
Regardless of the theories teaching in the classroom, practice(experiment) teaching, the course
designing and graduation thesis(design) etc., the high school all use a teaching councilor, all levels
leaders and the expert of the same occupation to listen to lesson, mid-term teaching check, the regular
teaching meeting, student appraise teaching through Internet, student's teaching information member,
each kind of symposium etc. system and form, carried on comprehensive stereoscopic overall
supervision to the whole teaching processes, but to the problem which appear in the process of
supervises and controls, widespread exist analysis and sort shortage, stay around for the layer of
directing but directing, do not carry on hard and carefully categorizing sorting summary to the problem,
do not provide terrace for improving and exaltation the teaching quality
3.2 Information collections enough to spare, information feedback shortage
Ask for help from supervision outlet and means of each layer, the teaching information which
acquires a large amount is easy, but these information adopt the analysis of the department concerned
and personnel, categorize after obtaining, sorting and after putting forward solving measure, usually
can't in time and all give the department concerned and related personnel the feedback, can't make these
information have a function of promoting teaching quality.
3.3 The surface layer enough to spare of the feedback problem, touch the problem deep shortage
Maybe proceed from face or other reason, the problem appeared in the supervision process is more
serious, but to the department concerned and related personnel's feedback, usually the surface layer
which involve a problem, do not touch a problem deeply, cause some problems which influence
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teaching quality can not get root of resolve.
3.4 Classroom teaching direct enough to spare, practice teaching direct shortage
Owing to classroom teaching much in the campus and have fixed teaching place, so inspecting is
more and easily to this type's teaching activity, so appear to the direct situation of” take care of much to
descend together" for classroom teaching, but to dispersion of practice, experiment, course design,
graduation design(thesis) etc. practice teaching link, because of the higher direct cost, inspecting
obviously not enough and be partial to little, cause the teaching quality of these links very difficult to
assurance.
3.5 School level supervision enough to spare, the academy level supervision shortage
Because the school scale extend continuously with the school manage system reform turn
continuously and deeply, gradually build up the management system of two class teachings in the school
and institute, the teaching of most schools management work regard macroscopic management as
principle, practicing daily teaching management as a center of gravity to descend to move. Seeing from
most of the high school, teaching quality supervision of mission mainly from school educational
administration section and its appointed councilor constituted member, student information
member...etc., according to teaching quality supervision of the system requested to complete, because
these organizations and personnel have explicit job, and have certain supervision subsidy expenses or
praise, appearing the phenomenon that school level supervision is enough to spare. But because
manager's amount of the teaching class is partial to little, and most of them are still double personnel
(not only a manager but also a teacher), the mission of teaching, researching and managing is heavy,
therefore, teaching process with supervision obviously not enough. Furthermore, teaching manager and
the supervised and controlled object (teacher and student) have related more closely, also make class’s
supervise and control shortage.
4. The improvement plan of supervision of the teaching quality
4.1Each teaching link should build up quality standard which is norm and scientific is standard,
all kinds of teaching management section and teaching quality supervise and control personnel
open an exhibition work with the quality strictly, and carry on the instruction and the feedback of
teaching activity to the related personnel by quality standard.
Say for a common high school, the teaching link is numerous and complicated, drawing up each
quality standards of teaching link are also not realistic. But the quality standard of main teaching link
must have possess, otherwise the quality supervise and control” can’t but depend on”. Take common
engineering high school as an example, the main teaching link includes classroom oriels teaching,
experiment teaching, practice teaching, course design, graduation design (thesis), examination. All
involve teacher, student, assisting personnel for teaching, manager for teaching and the related teaching
environment in each teaching link. Therefore, the school should drawing up actually and viable quality
standard according to the concrete circumstance. Generally speaking, the quality standard of main
teaching link should have the following characteristic.
1.The quality standard should match a school’s denominate and do a request of the school’s present
stage. Of common high school, because the different denominate, developing level, though main
teaching link are same, quality standard are different, can't position and quote to all different schools
with a quality standard for unifying, school governor also can't make a word-for-word copy to the
quality of other schools standard in briefly. Otherwise it will lead a teaching activity toward false
circumstance ground. Insisting on dynamic in the meantime, carrying on emendation to quality standard,
according to the variety of the student, teacher and the environment carry on modifying to quality
standard in good time.
2. The quality standard have scientific can reflect the teaching level and teaching result of a school.
We must strictly according to the teaching level of this school and the request of the teaching result,
drawing up actually viable quality standard.
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3. The quality standard must have maneuverability and consistency, make the teacher, student, the
manager for teaching and councilor member can launch the viable teaching activity and teaching
supervision according to the consistent quality standard.
4. The quality standard have to look after both commonality and individuality to unify. Stretching
over several branch of learning, owning several tens of professional is very widespread for a high school.
But the organization and development of the teaching activity of different academics and profession
exist very big difference. The school impossibly overlays the quality standard of a set of teaching link of
all teaching activities, insist that the macroscopic quality standard which showing the school’s
commonalities are designed by the Dean’s Office, the microscopic or microscopic quality standard
which showing the school’s individualities are designed by the college or department, look after both
sides quality standard well of the commonality and individuality unify, make the quality standard really
become the scientific scale which adjudicate teaching quality and teaching supervision, instruct and
promote the school’s different academics and professional can teaching activity orderly.
5. The quality standard must have grade so that distinguish and adjudicate the good and bad of
teaching activity and teaching quality. Seeing from the implement circumstance that the high school’s
practiced activity and teaching quality supervision, draw up the quality standard similar to
hundred-mark system or five classes systems which investigate the quality of the student studies result is
difficult even impossible. But according to the characteristics of main teaching link, drawing up an
excellent (A class) and qualified(C class) grade standard is still feasible. According to these two grade
standard can carry on adjudicate to the completion circumstance of teaching activity which is relative
scientific: Attaining the A class is excellent, between the A class and C class is good (B class), attaining
the C class is qualified; lowing in the C class is unqualified (D class).
4.2Consulting the principle that a point management, reform the thinking of teaching quality
supervision, carries out point's supervision reasonable combine with the general supervision.
The point management is also called the classification management or ABC analysis method. It is a
kind of management method which carries on system covariance, arrange and categorize to find out the
management point. The Italian economist Paramour got to use this method first in 1906, studying the
distribute condition of the society wealth. He discovered that a handful of men possess great quantities
social wealth and the most people possess a little amount social wealth. This kind of relation that” the
minority of the key with the majority of the subordinate”, widespread exist in the economic activities.
Afterwards, this kind of economic analysis method is expanded supplies to goods and materials
management, drafting produce and process schedule, the craft equipments management and analyzes to
influence product quality of main and secondary factor etc. In the meanwhile, we can draw lessons from
this basic principle to take into apply in the supervision aspect of the teaching quality. Experience
expresses that in the teaching process, the factor which influence teaching quality also exist “key of
minority with subordinate in majority”. So we can reform the supervision way of thinking of the
teaching quality, carry out point supervision with general supervision of the reasonable combine.
Concretely speaking, pay much attention to the following aspects: the new teacher of the youth who
come to the school in nearly three years, the teacher with more feedback opinion from the councilor
team, the teacher get more opinions during the student’s appraise teaching through Internet and practice
teaching etc. Adopt multilayer, many outlets, and many personnel's stereoscopic supervision,
conscientiously enhance teaching quality. But carry on general supervision to the teaching activity of
other links through a periodical teaching regular meeting, mid-term teaching check. Henan Polytechnic
University together with several other high schools, drawing lessons from famous high schools about
the teaching quality supervision experience in tallying up the foundation of former working experience,
insisting studying, improving and innovating continuously. According to the instruction thought of”
distinguish main and subordinate, manage the point, give consideration to general", grope for a new way
of thinking and new method suits school’s special features of the teaching supervise and control,
obtained good teaching quality supervision result.
4.3Creative thinking, change idea, make the center of gravity of supervision of the teaching
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quality be changed toward "control"by"direct".
The basic content of supervising and controlling is a direct control, but is just means to the direct of
the teaching activity and the teaching quality to high school. Controlling the teaching activity and
teaching quality be on the proper appearance and level is the basic purpose. So the return that building
up perfect teaching quality supervision system should be put forward measure and opinion of
improvement by the direct which run through the teaching process and the collecting, sorting analyzing
of information. And then carrying on feedback toward the relevant leadership, section and the party
concerned in time. Meanwhile urge to the problem and blemish existing in the teaching process not
happen in aftertime. Make the supervision of teaching quality is transferred toward the before the event
by the after, resolve the problem in the teaching process to be sprouting, visible result or will take place
of before period, real carry out "zero blemishes of teaching activity and teaching quality.Moreover,in
order to improve the feedback speed of information, the school can through regular teaching meeting,
conversation, written notice, telephone, E-mail ,QQ etc. medium to carry on. What need to be noticed is,
adopt above various outlets to carry on information feedback, have to vary from person to person to the
party concerned in the teaching activity, and the concrete circumstance need concretely analytical. But
there is one point need to be explained, teaching information to the student's appraise teaching through
Internet toward the lecture's feedback, the best opportune moment should after the teacher fill report
over student’s mark, in order to prevent cancellation when students appraise teaches may existence
worry about the teacher make reprisals, make the appraise teaching information inconsistent with the
facts. In the meantime may avoid a teacher granting an evaluation towards allowing the class and
student personal result of unjustly separately.
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