On December 27, the undergraduate teaching quality assessment work meeting of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics was held in our college. In order to further improve undergraduate teaching quality, strengthen the normalization of undergraduate teaching management, and prepare for the 2018 undergraduate quality evaluation, our school conducts assessments of 4 departments each semester to enhance undergraduate teaching quality. This assessment will focus on outstanding issues identified in this year's routine teaching inspections, primarily evaluating the quality of undergraduate teaching work from the 2014-2016 academic years.
Vice President Liu Lanzhu, expert group leader Professor Chen Qijie, expert group members Professor Chen Yihong, Professor Yue Yaoxing, Associate Professor Chen Liping, and Associate Dean of the Teacher Development Center Yang Nan attended the meeting. The dean of our college Zhou Yong, secretary Tu Tianfeng, vice deans Wu Chunjie, You Jinhong, deputy secretary Wang Ti, and all faculty members of the college participated in the meeting. The meeting was hosted by Yang Nan.
Figure 1 Dean Zhou Yong's Report
The School of Statistics and Management places great importance on undergraduate teaching and talent cultivation. In 2013, the college added two new majors in Economic Statistics and Applied Statistics based on the original Statistics major. These three majors have developed rapidly under the meticulous cultivation and efforts of the college, with a strong faculty for undergraduate teaching, training a large number of versatile and innovative statistical talents for the development of the country and society. In November 2016, the evaluation work for the newly added majors was successfully completed.
Figure 2 Deputy Director Yang Nan presiding over the meeting.
Figure 3 Expert Group Review Materials
Figure 4 Feedback from the Expert Group
Figure 5 Summary by Vice President Liu Lanjuan
The expert group first listened to Dean Zhou Yong's report on undergraduate teaching work, then conducted an on-site inspection and reviewed various documents related to the evaluation of the college's undergraduate teaching, focusing on a random check of undergraduate exam papers and graduate thesis materials from the past two academic years. After comprehensive evaluation and resolution, an excellent assessment score of 90.8 was given. Meanwhile, the expert group provided feedback on their evaluation to the college, and Dean Zhou Yong and Vice Dean Wu Chunjie gave detailed responses to the suggestions put forward by the expert group. The expert group highly praised our college's undergraduate teaching work, noting outstanding performance in faculty quality, research capacity, teaching achievements, and teaching quality management. Additionally, the expert group provided constructive suggestions for the college's undergraduate teaching work, including strengthening the diversity of exam question types, adding subjective questions, and enriching the literature and citations in graduate theses. Furthermore, they encouraged faculty to leverage research strengths to enhance teaching and actively participate in teaching reform efforts, including the development of textbooks and curriculum construction.
Teaching quality assessment is one of the important evaluation methods for teaching quality management and also accumulates experience for undergraduate education. The college takes the opportunity of teaching quality assessment, adhering to the principles of subjectivity, targeted approach, and empirical methods, fully leveraging its main role in professional development. Based on affirming achievements, it has conducted in-depth research on core issues in professional development and prominent problems in talent cultivation, actively exploring practical models for talent cultivation reform and innovation, and cultivating innovative statistical talents for society.
