4. University should face up to the fact that
the level of computer education is not very
high and teacher’s practical experience is
lacking.
Except for some first class universities in our
nation, the others all have two problems: one is that
theory is thought to be more important than actual
practice; another is the exam-oriented education
system of our country.
The first problem is partly due to historical reasons.
The number of college students has increased greatly
since 1998, when we started national college
expansion. But, the resources provided for education
have not grown with the same speed, and especially,
the number of teachers with practical experience
cannot meet the needs of education. Most of the
teachers have a great deal of teaching tasks, and have
no energy apply their skills with actual practice. So,
they have to only rote book-learning to finish tasks.
Some students even consider that the level of their
teachers is lower than that of staff from IT companies.
In many universities,student-teacher ratio in
computer education department has exceeded the
requirements of the Ministry of Education,high-level
teachers is a serious lack of.It's difficult to retain the
computer science senior personnel,the number of
academic leaders is poor,professional teachers with a
master's degree or above accounted for the total
number of teachers is relatively low.This condition in
the new undergraduate institutions is even more
serious.
The second problem, exam-oriented education, an
old problem in university has not yet been resolved.
Many universities tried to improve the exam method,
but the terminal examination is the most popular
method now. Examinations are the main method to test
the teaching effect and to improve teaching quality, so
a good exam method is very important.
We might marvel at the progress made in every
field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s
knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they
were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years,
educationists have still failed to devise anything more
efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the
pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is
common knowledge that they more often do the exact
opposite.They may be a good means of testing memory,
or the knack of working rapidly under extreme
pressure, but they can tell nothing about a person’s
true ability and aptitude.
As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to
none. That is because so much depends on them. They
are the mark of success or failure in our society. Your
whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It
doesnÿt matter that you werenÿt feeling very well,
or that your mother dies. Little things like that don’t
count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best
when he is in mortal terror, or after sleepless night, yet
this is precisely what the examination system expects
him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters
a world of vicious competition where success and
failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we
wonder at the increasing number of ‘drop-outs’: young
people who are written off as utter failures before they
have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised
at the suicide rate among students?A good education
should, among other things, train you to think for
yourself. The examination system does anything but
that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a
syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memories.
Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely,
but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to
seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming.
They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive
the teacher of all freedom. Teachers themselves are
often judged by examination results and instead of
teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training
their students in exam techniques which they despise.
The most successful candidates are not always the best
educated; they are the best trained in the technique of
working under duress.
The results on which so much depends are often
nothing more than a subjective assessment by some
anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human.
They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet
they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in
a limited amount of time. They work under the same
sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word
carries weight. After a judge’s decision on you have
the right of appeal, but not after an examiner’s. There
must surely be many simpler and more effective ways
of assessing a person’s true abilities. It is cynical to
suggest that examinations are merely a profitable
business for the institutions that run them? This is what
it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment
on the system is this illiterate message recently
scrawled on a wall: ‘I were a teenage drop-out and
now I are a teenage millionaire.’
All the problems propounded in this article are
summarized during my teaching life. With the reform
of education deeply carried in recent years, We believe
the condition will be soon improved.But the goverment
must change the concept of running universities to
solve fundamental problems rather than side issues.
If you don’t agree with my viewpoints, please
kindly give me your advice.
4. University should face up to the fact that
the level of computer education is not very
high and teacher’s practical experience is
lacking.
Except for some first class universities in our
nation, the others all have two problems: one is that
theory is thought to be more important than actual
practice; another is the exam-oriented education
system of our country.
The first problem is partly due to historical reasons.
The number of college students has increased greatly
since 1998, when we started national college
expansion. But, the resources provided for education
have not grown with the same speed, and especially,
the number of teachers with practical experience
cannot meet the needs of education. Most of the
teachers have a great deal of teaching tasks, and have
no energy apply their skills with actual practice. So,
they have to only rote book-learning to finish tasks.
Some students even consider that the level of their
teachers is lower than that of staff from IT companies.
In many universities,student-teacher ratio in
computer education department has exceeded the
requirements of the Ministry of Education,high-level
teachers is a serious lack of.It's difficult to retain the
computer science senior personnel,the number of
academic leaders is poor,professional teachers with a
master's degree or above accounted for the total
number of teachers is relatively low.This condition in
the new undergraduate institutions is even more
serious.
The second problem, exam-oriented education, an
old problem in university has not yet been resolved.
Many universities tried to improve the exam method,
but the terminal examination is the most popular
method now. Examinations are the main method to test
the teaching effect and to improve teaching quality, so
a good exam method is very important.
We might marvel at the progress made in every
field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s
knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they
were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years,
educationists have still failed to devise anything more
efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the
pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is
common knowledge that they more often do the exact
opposite.They may be a good means of testing memory,
or the knack of working rapidly under extreme
pressure, but they can tell nothing about a person’s
true ability and aptitude.
As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to
none. That is because so much depends on them. They
are the mark of success or failure in our society. Your
whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It
doesnÿt matter that you werenÿt feeling very well,
or that your mother dies. Little things like that don’t
count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best
when he is in mortal terror, or after sleepless night, yet
this is precisely what the examination system expects
him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters
a world of vicious competition where success and
failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we
wonder at the increasing number of ‘drop-outs’: young
people who are written off as utter failures before they
have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised
at the suicide rate among students?A good education
should, among other things, train you to think for
yourself. The examination system does anything but
that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a
syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memories.
Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely,
but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to
seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming.
They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive
the teacher of all freedom. Teachers themselves are
often judged by examination results and instead of
teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training
their students in exam techniques which they despise.
The most successful candidates are not always the best
educated; they are the best trained in the technique of
working under duress.
The results on which so much depends are often
nothing more than a subjective assessment by some
anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human.
They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet
they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in
a limited amount of time. They work under the same
sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word
carries weight. After a judge’s decision on you have
the right of appeal, but not after an examiner’s. There
must surely be many simpler and more effective ways
of assessing a person’s true abilities. It is cynical to
suggest that examinations are merely a profitable
business for the institutions that run them? This is what
it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment
on the system is this illiterate message recently
scrawled on a wall: ‘I were a teenage drop-out and
now I are a teenage millionaire.’
All the problems propounded in this article are
summarized during my teaching life. With the reform
of education deeply carried in recent years, We believe
the condition will be soon improved.But the goverment
must change the concept of running universities to
solve fundamental problems rather than side issues.
If you don’t agree with my viewpoints, please
kindly give me your advice.
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