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The Research On Evaluation Of Undergraduates' Inquiry Learning Satisfaction

Posted on:2011-08-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F ZouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167330332960836Subject:Business management
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With the arrival of Knowledge Economy and the rapid development of society, the quality of creative talents and workers has been put forward new demands,more and more jobs need practitioners with innovative ability, practical ability, and teamwork ability and so on. To meet the needs of this trend, many research universities started teaching reform,explored inquiry learning to foster students with strong research and innovative capacity.In recent years, as higher education have keeping vigorous development, the expansion of education scale did not bring substantial improvement. Not to understanding the needs of students in time was the most important factor to restrict improvement of education quality. With the Inquiry Learning has increasingly become the main form of training creative talents, as the main part of Inquiry Learning, the desire and needs of students become important aspects influencing effectiveness of Inquiry Learning implementation. Students have their own perception to implementation of Inquiry Learning by university, and their satisfaction directly decide the level of enthusiasm they have put into Inquiry Learning. So evaluating students' satisfaction is necessary.This article aims to build the undergraduate Inquiry Learning satisfaction evaluation system, make assessment to Inquiry Learning in college, analyze and compare different kinds of Inquiry Learning to identify shortcomings and provide recommendations.The research work carried out in the following areas:First, through literature review and referring to the existing research results, combined with expert interviews and repeated consultation and modification, this paper forms a preliminary Inquiry Learning satisfaction evaluation index system, and then uses AHP to set weight for every index, thus forming the complete Undergraduate Inquiry Learning satisfaction evaluation system, and developing the corresponding 4-dimensional scale inventory.Secondly, investigate undergraduate students.400 questionnaires were returned 322 valid questionnaires. Calculate the satisfaction total scores of three kinds of Inquiry Learning, evaluate and compare their satisfaction performance, analyze the causes and to identify deficiencies,make recommendations for improvement.Finally, we draw the following conclusions:â‘ Project-based Learning presents the highest satisfaction;â‘¡Problem-based Learning urgently needs teachers with high academic standards and abundant Inquiry Teaching experience;â‘¢Knowledge Seminar should choose original topics, and diversify teaching methods;â‘£Universities are proposed to strengthen software and hardware resources, and expand undergraduate research opportunities.
Keywords/Search Tags:Inquiry Learning, Learning Satisfaction, AHP, Evaluation model
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