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Study On Evaluating The Internship Effect Of Students Majored In Tourism Management

Posted on:2011-06-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H CheFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360302994669Subject:Tourism Management
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Tourism Management Undergraduate Internship is an important part of teaching practice.One important part in Tourism Management internship reseach is learning that how about the internship effect is and what the effecting factors are in order to guide the process of internship berrer. The main purpose of this study is to evaluating the tourism management undergraduates'internship effect. For the characteristics of the subject, there are research methods such as the Delphi method, questionnaire survey method, qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis of integratin.Firstly, background of the topic, research significance, research synthesis, research contents and methods are analyzed, and then related concepts and basic theory are outlined, thus providing theoretical and methodological background for later research.Secondly, on the basis of fully collecting,surveying and studing and refering on the existing research results, Tourism Internshiop Effect Evaluation Model based on target model is buided up. The evaluation model mainly consists of two parts: evaluation indexs system and the main evaluators. The evaluation index system includes three one-level indicators (ideological and moral qualities, cultural and professional qualities and physical and mental qualities), nine two-level indicators (professional ethics, service awareness, self-discipline, occupation sense of responsibility, professional identity, knowledge, professional qualities, physical qualities and psychological qualities) and six three indicators (cultural knowledge, professional knowledge, professional real gymnastics skills, communication and interpersonal skills, ability to adapt and learning and ability of organization and collaboration). The evaluator includes teachers, intership enterprises and intership students. The weights of the evaluation index system and the three evaluators is deretmined by Delphi method.Thirdly, the empirical research takes a university'2005 hotel intership undergraduates majored in Tourism Management for example and makes a comprehensive evaluation of their internship effectiveness.The evaluation is taken on by the order of evaluators: teachers, internships erterprises and internship students, and all the evaluation indicators have been evaluated. Based on these evaluation results, the overall evaluation results is given out and then the comparison of every evaluation index's evaluation results is taken on among main constituents and the overall evaluation results.Finally, on basis of previous evaluation results and combinating data collection of interviews with students and theirinternships logs, factors affecting student internship sre foud out. Improvement measures are correspondingly given out mading light of everyone's shortcomings in order to enhance the effect of student internships through common efforts of three joint.
Keywords/Search Tags:Tourism management major, Undergraduate Internship effect, Evaluation, Index system
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