Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences) ›› 2023, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (6): 133-141.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2023.06.011

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Efficiency or Value: Logic Dilemmas and Tension Adjustments of University Faculty Evaluation System

Qiang Su1, Xiaowei Cai2   

  1. 1. Zhejiang Institute of Higher Education, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China
    2. School of Marxism Zhejiang University, Research Center for Marxism Theory Innovation and Communication of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • Online:2023-06-01 Published:2023-05-30

Abstract:

In recent years, the prevalent evaluation activities in university faculties have always been dominated by scientific research orientation, quantitative method, and performance orientation, reflecting the phenomenon that only emphasizes the rationalities at the factual level and ignores the legitimacy at the value level. The evaluation orientation and standards of university faculties are not mainly derived from the self-consistent theoretical logic, but from the strong interventions of external forces in the academic ecology of universities and the results of competitions among universities in reality, which in turn shapes faculties work life styles, academic beliefs, and action preferences. Therefore, it is necessary to comprehensively reflect on the result logic, counting logic, and performance logic of the current evaluation system at the value level, so as to adjust the tension between the purpose value and instrumental value of faculty evaluation.

Key words: university faculties, faculty evaluation, evaluation system, organizational reform, teacher behavior