On May 11, the official website of Xi'an University of Science and Technology announced the "grade change incident", saying that a special team had been set up to carry out an investigation. The full text is as follows:
Qin Feng (pseudonym) is an associate professor and master's supervisor of Xi'an University of Science and Technology, and his main research areas involve GNSS geodetic data processing, GNSS precision positioning, GNSS integrity performance evaluation, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses such as "GNSS Positioning Principles and Applications" and "Frontiers of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology".
According to a previous report by CCTV, in January this year, after the final results of Qin Feng's course came out, the parent of a student surnamed Chen, who had failed to pass the grades, asked the student to revise his grades on the grounds of "affecting the child's future" and "causing a stain", and verbally threatened Qin Feng. The relevant personnel of the School of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology of the university also mentioned many times that the parent "has a background" and is a member of the academician team of a research institute. Ask the teacher to revise the grade.
Dialogue between the student's parents and Qin Feng (screenshot of media reports)
According to Qin Feng, the student's parents claimed to be a researcher of the academician team of a research institute, and because the child was a bachelor's and master's student, the unqualified grades would affect his future, and asked to revise the child's grades. The parent once said to Qin Feng, "I'll make the actual situation clear, if you can't do it, I will definitely go to the school to make trouble with you." "I have something to do with a teacher at your school." Qin Feng said that for a while, he was worried about the safety of himself and his family. On Chinese New Year's Eve last year, he received another text message from the student's parents, questioning him for being too difficult to write questions and grading papers at will, saying that he would go to the Education Department to sue him.
Investigation letter (screenshot of media report)
Qin Feng said that on February 26 this year, 19 students jointly went to the school's academic affairs office to request a review of their results, while 72 students had previously taken the exam for the course and 38 students had failed to achieve results. The above-mentioned college set up a supervision team to review the examination papers, "The result of the review is that the questions I put out meet the requirements of the syllabus, the difficulty level is moderate, and there is no problem in grading." ”
On March 5 this year, the parents of the above-mentioned students came to the school to report that there were problems in Qin Feng's teaching, and for this reason, the school's Academic Affairs Office issued a special investigation letter. Qin Feng said, "After a day of investigation, it proved that I have no problems in teaching. ”
At the end of March, the college arranged a make-up examination, and the make-up examination of Qin Feng's teaching course was written and graded by another research group leader, and Qin Feng was only responsible for entering the final results. In this make-up examination, the above-mentioned students surnamed Chen passed the make-up examination.
On April 26, Qin Feng learned that in this make-up examination, there was another student surnamed Wang who failed the make-up examination, which may affect his undergraduate graduation and graduate studies. Qin Feng said that this time, the student still asked for a revision of his grades and threatened to jump off the building. A few days later, he found out that the student's make-up test score had been revised to 60 points.
Qin Feng admitted frankly that since January this year, he has been exhausted, and has not received a fair answer and a trace of comfort from the relevant departments, "I have become an alternative and negative teaching material, what did I do wrong?" ”
Handwritten instructions for the revision of students' grades signed by the faculty instructor (screenshot of media report)
In the past few days, related topics about the revision of student grades of Xi'an University of Science and Technology have rushed to the hot search. On the 11th, the Jimu News reporter repeatedly called the relevant departments of the School of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology of the university, as well as the relevant person in charge of the propaganda department of the school, to learn about the progress of the disposal, but did not receive a reply.
Subsequently, the staff of another department of the school responded to reporters that the school attaches great importance to this matter and set up a special working class as soon as possible to carry out a comprehensive and in-depth investigation and verification; In response to the reflected problems, the school will strictly investigate to the end in an attitude of not evading or covering up; For violations of discipline and regulations, the school will seriously investigate the responsibility of the relevant responsible persons based on the investigation results, and will not tolerate it.
Qin Feng told the Jimu News reporter that it is inconvenient for him to say more about this matter, the school has intervened in the investigation, and has also received the attention of the relevant departments of the Provincial Department of Education, and he will then wait patiently for the results of the investigation, including the final results of the subjects of the above two students.
On the same day, the reporter called the Higher Education Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education to learn about the situation, and the staff said that the matter was handled by the Propaganda Department of the department. As of press time, the reporter called the department's propaganda department several times, but no one answered.
Opinion: The test scores of college students must not be modified according to "trouble".
Written by Xiong Bingqi (Education Scholar) Edited / Proofread by Ke Rui / Liu Jun
Can college students' grades also be modified? Recently, a teacher at a university in Shaanxi Province said that he was repeatedly asked to revise students' grades, which caused concern.
According to the CCTV report, a full-time teacher from the School of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology of Xi'an University of Science and Technology recently reported to the media: In January this year, after the final results of the course he took came out, the parents of a student with unqualified grades asked to revise the students' grades on the grounds of "affecting their children's future" and "causing stains", and verbally threatened the teacher. The relevant personnel of the college also mentioned many times that the parent "has a background" and asked the teacher to revise the grades.
In addition, the teacher also reported that in order to modify the grade of another student who took the make-up examination, the college transferred the grade entry authority of the course from the system without the teacher's knowledge, and other teachers modified the unqualified grade to a passing score.
Why is there an abnormal thing about changing the results of the normal exam? Why is the examination that is within the reasonable authority of the teacher to be interfered with by multiple parties? What is the pressure that makes the college privately revise student grades? In response to many questions, the relevant staff of the school's propaganda department said that the school has set up an investigation team, and other information is not clear.
In this regard, it is necessary for the school to conduct an objective and impartial investigation and respond to social concerns in a timely manner. If there is indeed a problem of students, parents and relevant school personnel asking teachers to revise their grades, or even directly entering the education system to modify them in violation of regulations, the responsible person must be seriously dealt with.
Judging from the information reported by the media, this teacher has always adhered to the principle of giving students as many points as he should and refusing to revise them, which is very valuable. This is not only to adhere to the principles of education, maintain the fairness and impartiality of examination evaluation, but also to practice strict requirements with practical actions and not to "release water" to students' grades.
It is the legitimate right of students and parents to have questions about the test results and submit a review. If there are no problems such as the difficulty of the test questions and the scoring rules, the results cannot be modified at will. This is the basic regulation of the teaching management of the university. Blatantly asking teachers to revise their grades without justifiable reasons is undoubtedly vexatious.
This kind of absurdity happened, and the school's fear of "making trouble" was one of the reasons. Some schools are worried that students and parents will "make trouble" with public opinion, so they ask teachers to "calm things down" and change their grades.
On the other hand, since students' grades directly affect graduate school, evaluation, graduation, employment, etc., some schools will also want their grades to be "good-looking". Previously, there were media reports that some teachers reported that the school asked teachers to relax the requirements for students. Clearly, these schools have forgotten their educational responsibilities.
Therefore, in order to strengthen the building of the teaching style and study style of universities, it is necessary to hand over the autonomy of teaching to teachers, and at the same time reform the assessment and evaluation system, guide teachers to devote more energy to education and teaching, and set strict demands on students. Schools should encourage and support teachers' strict grading, not the other way around.
According to reports, in addition to claiming that they want to sue the Ministry of Education, the parents of the students who asked the teachers to revise their grades also said that "I have a relationship with a teacher at your school" and that they are "members of the academician team of a certain research institute." This reminds schools to investigate whether they have used their relationship with the school to request changes to students' grades.
You must know that no matter whether parents help their children revise their grades or not, as long as there is such behavior, it is inappropriate. In addition, it is worth tracing how the college bypassed the teachers themselves and entered the academic affairs system to repair and change the students' make-up examinations to pass.
At present, the mainland is building a high-quality higher education system, and under this requirement, it is necessary to improve the independent training of talents and adhere to strict personnel training standards.
To this end, universities need to clearly say no to the behavior of "making trouble" to change grades, and investigate and prosecute behaviors that threaten and interfere with teachers' performance of teaching duties in accordance with laws and regulations. In any case, the kind of thing that forces teachers to revise grades should not happen on a college campus.