In terms of the current assessment method, the dissertation gives undergraduates an opportunity to integrate learning materials and improve thinking logic skills, which may not be academic or professional enough, but it is also practical and affordable for undergraduates.At least for most students who don't graduate school, it's a chance to exercise and improve before entering the workplace.
But why, so far, undergraduate degree papers have been plagued by double complaints from mentors and students, as if this form of investigation has caused dissatisfaction among both teachers and students.
Let me briefly state my point: the system is good, the thesis itself is meaningful (at least more about academic ability than the examination), but the problem is not the thesis itself, but the persistent disease that has existed in universities for a long time.
So, what are the problems with undergraduate degree papers being criticized?
Undergraduate students cannot reach the level of academic research
Here's a small question: Should undergraduates write academic papers at what they learn and at what level they have?If you look at these two words separately, "academic" is naturally related to the atmosphere of the school and the ability of the students. Excellent schools have a strong academic atmosphere, strong faculty, and students are better than ordinary schools.But the problem is that there are more students who are ordinary, rushing down four years, specialized classes, general education classes, and it may be difficult to find a direction to study in a certain field and propose their own ideas and ideas.
And then again, "Thesis."I don't think the paper necessarily needs to innovate, to make a clear statement of knowledge, to integrate the complexity of the content is meaningful, innovation has absolute value, and to integrate knowledge has another value.
2, the instructor with more than one person, time is not limited
Mentors themselves, especially green peppers themselves, have a lot of scientific pressure, and then assign dozens of students to a mentor, even if the mentor has the ability to guide, but not everything.
In addition, there are some similarities to the first question: good school masters, ordinary and even not very good college teachers, lack of scientific research ability, insufficient attention to the academic frontier, can not give students effective guidance.
3, the attitude of graduates is not good, according to the cat painting tiger, sales plagiarism
It's not just the attitude of undergraduate graduates to the thesis, it's also the real reason why it's so difficult.
Under the double pressure of employment and graduate school, universities repeatedly emphasize the employment rate, which causes students to complete the dissertation and prepare for the examination of employment.So the undergraduate degree thesis became a fool, save time, casually put together, and then crazy weight reduction, and even some people buy papers online, looking for someone to write for them.
4 The AI Crisis
Since the advent of ChatGPT, there has been an urgent ethical question, what should students do if they use AI to write papers?Gu Jun, director of the supervision and evaluation department of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Department, said in a guest program, "ChatGPT can generate coherent and logical article characteristics and provide convenience.”
It can be seen from the above that many problems of undergraduate degree papers do not come from academic ability itself, the level of colleges and universities is uneven, the pressure of graduate employment examination is high.
At the end of the day, it seems that there are only a few ways to promote the coexistence of multiple assessment methods to alleviate the problem of undergraduate degree papers being criticized.Let students suitable for academic research have a more fair and harmonious atmosphere, and let students with excellent hands-on skills increase the opportunity for practical demonstration.
It is not so much that college students cannot produce academic achievements that match higher education that degree thesis is a microcosm of the various ills behind college education.
It is also not clear whether the future will be harder to find a suitable way of looking than an undergraduate degree thesis or to solve these educational ills.