Basic knowledge of college students!Who is the "water injection" competition?

Text ｜ Fan Xiudi (Director of Tongji University Education Evaluation Research Center)

At present, the problem of decline in basic knowledge (including basic skills) of college students has received widespread attention inside and outside the academic community. Moreover, this problem does not only appear in ordinary universities. The basic knowledge of students is not solid, and the innovative talents needed by the national science and technology self -reliance cannot be said, and even ordinary work is difficult to competent.

There are many reasons for this problem, but the disorderly and chaos in the college student discipline competition has become an important cause of disturbing the basic knowledge of college students' peace of mind. It needs to attract great attention from all parties.

In theory, college students' discipline competition reflects the effectiveness of teaching and academics, and has a strengthening effect on school teaching. The same is true of reality. The domestic target and good organization of college student discipline competitions provided the students with the opportunity to comprehensively use knowledge and skills. At the same time, competitions can also stimulate students' desire to challenge, explore interests and hard work. In short, high -quality discipline competitions are a kind of expansion of school education and teaching. It allows students to see the value and charm of knowledge, and promote students to love learning and awe knowledge.

However, unfortunately, the current too many and over -ended college students 'subject competitions have caused the discipline competition to affect students' learning.

On the one hand, the "chaotic phenomenon" of the competition shows that the organizer carries out related activities to deviate from the purpose of pulling the excellence and establishing a benchmark, and to attract students to participate by awards.

The total award ratio of the current college student competition programs is generally more than 50%. Some competition project names are "tall", but the event organization is quite casual. It is not eligible for the contestants, has no specifications for participating works, and has no integrity supervision of the works of the contestants.

At the same time, the awards are also very casual. Facing the huge number of entries, the award -winning experts can look at it quite well. It is very doubtful whether some high -level awards are true.

Some national competition projects have irregular subcontracting and subcontracting. Some competitions can be inferred from its large and boundless names.

The author was surprised that many of the resumes of many liberal arts postgraduate students had the × National Mathematical Modeling Competition Awards. After inquiring from various parties, they learned that students can participate online as long as they pay the registration fee, and most people can get high and low awards. The so -called × nation, most of the contestants are domestic students, and the actual organizers of the competition are mainly Chinese.

On the other hand, the competition "chaos" is the purpose of participating in the competition to deviate from the competition and promote learning. Many students hope to get competition awards for the entrance examination and job search purpose, but they don't think it is necessary to improve their academic skills, because they believe that the award of college student discipline competitions has nothing to do with the true and talents of the contestants.

It must be acknowledged that undergraduate students are now holding the works of the relevant research team mentors or graduate seniors, or they have won the award through the team name. Of course, this approach should be prohibited, but the person in charge of the results often considers the factors such as adding light to the research team, more obedient students, emotional faces, etc., and voluntarily give up the ownership or signature of the results. In this case, schools are also known, but often do not interfere from the perspective of "school honor". Students may have opinions, but most of them dare to be angry and dare not speak. This has led to false situations for college students' competition awards.

To make matters worse, some event organizations are quite chaotic, and the rules and review forms are virtual, making the competition awards "nonsense." For example, a certain school has different students every year with the same work to participate in the competition, and they even win the prize every year; some students even pay the agency to entrust an intermediary company to organize awards for them. In short, students have obtained the award of college students 'competitions through speculative drilling camps, and deepen the wrong cognition of students' "knowledge learning unimportant".

The "chaos" of college students 'discipline competitions seriously affects the learning of college students' basic knowledge. In the "chaos" of the competition, the organizers and contestants both valued the utilitarianity of the competition awards and ignored the scientific, rationality, standardization and fairness of the activity itself. The competition "chaos" seems to happen to a small number of people, but as a social existence, it naturally affects most students -many low -grade students in university do not concentrate on learning basic knowledge, but to care and participate in various competitions Activity. This cannot be blamed for students, because in terms of postgraduate entrance examination, job search, solid basic knowledge is far less than a few more competition awards.

It is pointed out that the "chaos" of college students' discipline competitions is to overcome problems such as impetuousness, short -sightedness, falsification, and close profitability, and guide college students to return to basic knowledge learning. To this end, management can be strengthened from the following aspects.

First of all, a high -level competition activity should set up a certain threshold for participation, so that students who fail to meet the requirements of the knowledge of knowledge reflect the respect of scientific laws, so that students will be rigorously seek, pragmatic, and angry. Treating learning.

Second, the management department must strictly investigate the unique and unrealistic competition items. The awards of these events are deceived and misleading to the public and even professionals. Banning such competitions will cause students to be uninteresting or less disturbing or less awards.

Third, schools and employers should take the entrance review of students' further studies and job hunting. Various recruitment interviews must be returned from the relying contest award to the assessment of students' academic or business ability in order to give students who have true talents who have the opportunity to be discovered and popular.

Fourth, strictly supervise the exercise of the main responsibility of the event organizer.The disciplinary competition must be standardized, scientific and normalized, ensure the disclosure of the whole process, fairness and fairness in all links, so that outstanding students will bloom in the competition of knowledge.Fifth, encourage the school to organize students to participate in professional skills competitions in our school or industry, so that the competition activities are closely linked to the learning of professional knowledge, so that students' excellent participating works can be widely appreciated by their peers inside and outside the school, creating a campus learning atmosphere, reflecting the establishment of moralityTree man function.

"China Science News" (2022-07-05 The 3rd edition of the 3rd edition of the original title "Chaos" is an important incentive for the weak basic knowledge of college students ")

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