Lu Dewen: Eliminate human factors to ensure the fairness of the thesis review

In terms of matching accuracy of the dissertation and review experts, many universities also have room for further improvement.

It is reported that recently, how does Lu Dewen, a professor at the School of Social Sciences of Wuhan University, published an article "malicious review" to evaluate and use it?Based on an analysis of a doctoral dissertation review opinion in Wuhan University, the doctoral students they guided were "malicious judges".At present, relevant colleges are known to involve intervention. Whether there are "malicious reviews" that Professor Lu said, and whether the papers meet the basic requirements of doctoral degrees, it remains to be officially given detailed review results in a timely manner.

In fact, similar problems occur in the thesis review session.With the "wide advancement" becoming a general trend of graduate training, the quality requirements of the education department on the quality of graduate degree thesis have also been increased year by year.Students' degree acquisition or even development of life.

Professor Lu's questioning of the review has aroused the empathy and heated discussion of many netizens, and it is also explaining a problem: there may be many omissions that need to be improved in some universities' degree thesis review systems.

Taking the thesis review as an example, the Ministry of Education has not made unified regulations on the requirements, operation methods, and assessment results of graduate papers.Sexual documents formulate implementation methods, and generally use the "double -blind review" method.

However, there are large differences between different universities.Some colleges and universities have set up too high blind trial thresholds, and lack of channels for feedback and appeal. As a result, many graduate students have encountered the situation of being blindly tried to be "blocked".The opinion of a review affects the overall evaluation.

As a response, some important talents in China, project review work, and the review link of some academic journals have begun to implement the "recommended avoidance" system, that is, the person who has proposed one or more academic controversy or contradictions that may exist in academic disputes or contradictions.The list of experts that to be avoided, minimizing the impact of minimum human factors on the fairness of the judges.

In terms of the matching accuracy of the dissertation and experts, many universities also have room for further improvement.The scholars each in the small and specific academic field, even if they are "interlaced like a mountain", even under the same subject category.Today, many universities have added an option to "whether they are familiar with the theme of the thesis" in the review system. Experts who choose "unfamiliar" can replace the review of the review, which is also the risk of eliminating "wrong injuries".

In addition, unlike the continuous expansion of graduate students, the replenishment of the dissertation expert library is extremely limited. In the graduation season, an expert often commented on multiple articles.Under the pressure, many articles are too late to look at and look at the views. It is inevitable that the occurrence of "unjust or false cases" in the review is inevitable.

In view of this, some provinces have launched a dynamic tracking and judgment mechanism for the level of experts. When the review opinions are obviously contrary to the situation, it is automatically pushed to a new expert to review, and there are many exit experts in many occasions and average opinions.The qualifications for review will help reduce some negative reviews or emotional reviews.

However, the influence of human factors is difficult to eradicate at the technical level. It is particularly important to protect students' right to know and appeal after the review results come out.

On April 26 this year, the Ninth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fourteenth National People's Congress voted and approved the degree law of the People's Republic of China and implemented it on January 1, 2025.Compared with the degree regulations of the People's Republic of China that have been implemented for more than 20 years, the degree law has added specific terms in the "academic review" part, and also provides a reference for similar disputes in the future.

Article 40 of the Degree Law stipulates that "degree applicants have objections to the academic evaluation conclusions in the process of evaluation, defense, and achievement identification of experts.You can also "request relevant authorities to handle in accordance with the law", which provides elastic space for the protection of students' rights and interests.

However, how to maintain the order of academic standards and normal academic activities within the legal framework, and avoid generalization of appeal, still need to formulate more scientific and fine management methods.

In the final analysis, setting the necessary review links before the thesis defense is to help students discover the problems in the thesis, make necessary improvement and repair, rather than the obstacles to setting up graduation.

Before the official review results came out, this incident should not be partial.However, the occurrence of this incident does have some problems that may exist in the thesis review under the focus of public opinion, which helps to explore more mechanism solutions.

Concerning/Gong Yu Editor/Chi Dao Chinese School/Li Lijun