Research On The Adjustment Of Colleges And Departments In Local Normal Universities Under The Guidance Of Education Evaluation Reform

Local normal universities are an important driving force in the development of regional basic education,and each local normal university has trained and delivered a large number of quality teachers for basic education and promoted the development of local basic education.Local normal universities have long been regarded as the cradle of teacher training,and their original intention and mission is to train quality teachers.The prosperous development of local normal universities is closely related to the various faculties and institutions in the universities,and cannot be achieved without the support of the faculties and institutions.However,there are currently many problems with the set-up of faculties and departments in local normal universities in China,which hinder the improvement of the standard of local normal universities and are not conducive to their high-quality development.In the context of the new era,it is of great practical significance to promote the sustainable development of local normal universities by reorganising their faculties and departments to better guide them to focus on their main responsibilities and to train more excellent teachers in the context of education evaluation reform.This paper uses literature research,textual analysis and data analysis methods to conduct a comprehensive study of the settings of teacher-training faculties,nonteacher-training faculties and education-related faculties in some local normal universities in China,analyse the problems and causes of their settings,and finally put forward relevant adjustment suggestions and strategies.The study found that the following problems exist in the establishment of faculties and departments in local normal universities in China: the overall number of faculties and departments is excessive,with a high proportion of non-teaching faculties and departments;the number of education-related faculties and departments is disorganised;and the standards for the establishment of various types of faculties and departments are confusing and inconsistent.The reasons for these problems lie in the influence of national policies and systems on the development of local normal university institutions at the macro level,the one-sided understanding of the process of running local normal universities at the meso level,which has led to the dilution of their teacher education characteristics,and the competition for power and interests among the grassroots departments themselves at the micro level.The new era of education evaluation reform clearly indicates that local normal universities need to adjust their institutional settings as soon as possible,return to the main responsibility of teacher education and train more excellent teachers.Specifically,the government should start from the following three aspects: the government should use the new era of education evaluation reform to guide local normal universities to adjust their faculties and departments,so as to return to the original intention of teacher education;local normal universities should position themselves scientifically and reasonably,maximise their strengths,integrate and standardise education-related faculties and departments within normal universities,implement the departmental system on a trial basis,increase the number of normal faculties and departments,join forces to highlight the characteristics of teacher training,and reduce the number of non-teacher training faculties and departments.At the same time,it should improve the governance system of the grassroots faculties,give full play to the governance advantages of the grassroots organisations,implement the powers,improve the physicalisation of the faculties,and give full play to the advantages of the characteristic faculties to create a brand.