How to walk the "balance beam" of quantity and quality in academic evaluation after "breaking the five virtues"
2022-05-05
"The construction of academic evaluation system, academic system, discipline system, discourse system and textbook system together constitute an organic part of the construction of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics. At present, the construction of academic evaluation system has become one of the bottlenecks of China's academic development." Recently, at the Forum on the evaluation and release of academic achievements in the humanities and social sciences of Renmin University of China, researcher Wang Yumei, deputy secretary of the Party committee of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that how to make an effective breakthrough and form an academic evaluation system that is needed and matched for China's academic prosperity and progress in the new era is an urgent task and top priority. At the forum hosted by Renmin University of China and hosted by the book and newspaper information center of Renmin University of China and the academic achievement evaluation and research center of Humanities and social sciences of Renmin University of China, scholars from different institutions expounded their thoughts on the academic evaluation after breaking the five virtues. Academic evaluation must be diversified and classified "Scientific, reasonable and timely identification and promotion of innovation is the fundamental mission of academic evaluation. The academic evaluation system should have a firm sense of mission, effective pertinence, good guidance and a certain degree of tolerance in promoting academic innovation." Yang Hongyan, assistant director of the evaluation and Research Center for academic achievements in Humanities and social sciences of Renmin University of China, pointed out that academic evaluation promotes academic innovation, which is the common demand of management departments and academia. Yang Hongyan introduced that when Renmin University of China copies newspaper materials, it takes promoting academic innovation as the fundamental mission of academic evaluation. The evaluation object "does not ask about origin", only depends on the innovation degree and quality of the paper; In the selection of evaluation subject, we insist on the classification and direct judgment of the content value of the paper by peers. For other institutions, how to do a good job in academic evaluation? Professor Fang Qing, Dean of the Academy of Humanities and social sciences of Wuhan University, said bluntly that after "breaking the five virtues", the evaluation of achievements in philosophy and Social Sciences in Colleges and universities is facing the problem of lack of new standards. "Sometimes, 'our monks can't read our own scriptures', and we also hope that third-party institutions can make a difference." Fang Qing said. Professor Han Zhaoying, editor in chief of the Journal of Nankai University (PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EDITION), pointed out that the common problem perplexing everyone is what to build after breaking the five virtues. However, if we want to find a unique and recognized standard, this road will not work. He pointed out that diversified and multi-level evaluation methods must be adopted. The academic evaluation of liberal arts has distinct purpose and value, and the achievements of humanities are mostly presented in works. The evaluation of representative works has become one of the basic principles of liberal arts evaluation in the new era. Professor Jiang Chunlin of the Department of Humanities and social sciences of Dalian University of technology has done research on the evaluation of representative works. He lamented that academic evaluation is a highly complex and challenging work. In different evaluation scenarios, the evaluation index system will also be different. The evaluation method should serve the purpose of evaluation, and the effect is also affected by many factors. He expects that China can build a professional book review database, build an academic evaluation research community, and make more use of the power of technology, such as the application of large-scale Book full-text mining technology based on big data and artificial intelligence. It is suggested to popularize new literature measurement indicators Professor Yu Liping, Dean of the Institute of academic evaluation and science and technology statistics of Zhejiang University of technology and industry, believes that the evaluation of representative works also has the problem of scope of application. For example, it lacks the perspective of scale evaluation and cannot make interdisciplinary comparison; It is difficult to compare the representative works of scholars of different research types in the same discipline, and the discipline heterogeneity affects the evaluation effect of representative works. At the level of peer review, the review experts also have limited knowledge. Yu Liping boldly pointed out that it is not appropriate to expand the scope of application of representative work evaluation at will, especially in macro evaluation, such as discipline evaluation, representative work evaluation is not recommended. Further refinement of classified evaluation is the prerequisite for the evaluation and application of representative works. It is necessary to establish a review system that takes into account both quantitative assessment and representative works system, improve the standardization and quality of peer review of representative works, give colleges and universities some autonomy, and recommend the promotion of some new literature measurement indicators. Wang Yumei suggested that the existing objective evaluation methods can be improved and perfected. For example, we should make all kinds of academic journals better, form a more fair and impartial review and use procedures and a selection mechanism for high-quality manuscripts, and increase the use of objective evaluation data of various secondary literature communication platforms, including newspaper materials copied by the National People's Congress. "Academic evaluation is not a simple assessment of the assessment level of scientific research achievements. It is an overall spiritual and cultural atmosphere and working mechanism of joint cooperation in the academic research community." Wang Yumei stressed. (outlook new era)
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