Research On The Impact Of PhD Candidates’ Academic Belief On Their Academic Experiences

As the top of China’s education level,doctoral education represents the highest standard and level of education in China.Research about factors which affected the quality of doctoral education mainly focus on institutional and structural factors,such as scientific research output and teacher-student relationship during the Ph.D.study.The main way to improve the training quality of doctoral students also focus on the investment of resources in the above research fields.Based on the existing research findings,this research focuses on the beliefs which are mainly about the production and development of academic knowledge held by doctoral students,and explores new ways to improve the quality of doctoral students by measuring their academic beliefs.Through questionnaire surveys,1386 survey data from a research university in China were finally collected.The main points of the exploration of this research includes: the dimensional composition of doctoral students ’academic beliefs,the differences in academic beliefs of doctoral students with different background characteristics,and the relationship between doctoral students’ academic beliefs and academic experience.With the help of SPSS25.0 software to analyze the data,based on the existing research,this study has drawn the following three main conclusions: The academic beliefs of doctoral students can be measured by the "Doctoral Academic Belief Scale",and the scale has good reliability and validity.2.As for doctoral students of different grades,the academic beliefs show that the first grade is significantly stronger than the second,third and fourth grades.Regarding the admission methods of doctoral students,generally speaking,the scores of doctoral students applying and examination system ancd the public admission examination system are higher than those of the master-doctor continuous system and nonstop doctoral system.3.The three specific dimensions of doctoral students’ academic beliefs have a corresponding impact ontheir academic experience.Doctoral students’ academic career beliefs have a significant positive predictive effect on all academic experience behaviors;Academic tolerance beliefs have a significant positive impact on academic frontier involvement,curriculum learning and communication,scientific research project participation and interdisciplinary research;Doctoral students’ academic norms beliefs have no significant impact on academic frontier involvement and participation in scientific research projects,and have a significant negative impact on curriculum learning and communication,interdisciplinary research,teaching and teaching assistant activities.Based on the above research conclusions,this research makes the following recommendations: First,in the stage of doctoral students’ enrollment evaluation,our admissions unit should focus on individual academic beliefs.In particular,admissions unit should pay attention to academic beliefs that have a significant impact on all aspects of academic experience;Second,in the process of cultivating doctoral students,admissions unit should always pay attention to the academic career belief and academic tolerance belief.In addition,in view of the negative and significant impact of academic norms belief,postgraduate training units should be based on Moral Education,attach importance to "academic moral education",and carry out such special education in conjunction with the core concept of Moral Education to awaken the deep heart of doctoral students.The moral and ethical awareness of this is also a feasible way to effectively improve the quality of doctoral students during their studies;Third,the output of doctoral students should adopt a diversified evaluation method which focuses on the scientific spirit of doctoral students.Taking the representative work and foucing on research quality as the evaluation standard and canceling the requirement for the number of published papers at the time of graduation are some feasible and reasonable explorations.It is also one of the paths for doctoral students to return to the fountain of knowledge discovery and knowledge creation.