摘要
在建设世界一流大学进程中,海外访学是衡量教师国际化程度的核心指标,是提高教师质量的重要途径。然而,随着科学管理的兴起,量化评价制度的引入导致高校和教师忽视了海外访学的本质,教师"为访学而访学"和高校"为评价而评价"的现象普遍存在,海外访学经历也逐渐成为了高校衡量教师学术能力的重要信号。本研究通过对2014年中国大学教师调查的分析,使用倾向得分匹配方法估计海外访学对高校教师论文产出的处理效应。通过分析发现,倾向得分匹配方法的结果较传统估计更为精确,海外访学经历对教师的论文产出并不具备显著的正向影响,教师在海外访学中存在着严重的逆向选择问题,盲目追逐信号效应,并引发了海外访学的生产力危机。为此,需从教师、高校和国家三个层面引导海外访学本质的回归,提高项目效果。
In China＇s campaign to elevate its best universities into the world first-class level,overseas study visits serve as a key indicator of the internationalization of university faculties and an important way to improve their quality in the process.However,with the advent of scientific management,the introduction of quantitative evaluation and the emphasis it has received have,unintentionally,led to the negligence,on the part of both the faculty members and the administrative staff,of the nature of overseas studies.As a result,it has become the prevailing phenomena that university faculties go for overseas study experience for its own sake while the universities evaluate them for the sake of evaluation.As the overseas study experience has gradually become a key signal in assessing the faculty academic ability,it is important to make sure that it qualifies.This paper,by analyzing the data from the ＂2014 University Faculty Survey in China＂,attempts to appraise the treatment effect of overseas study visits on the journal paper outputs by China＇s university faculty members,employing the propensity scores match method.The study demonstrates that,methodically,the PSM coefficient is more precise than the traditional estimations,and,therefore,it better shows that the overseas study experience has exhibited no significant positive effect on the journal paper outputs.The study further reveals that there exists the more serious problem of adverse selection,and that is the pursuit of sheer signal effect by a substantial number of university faculty members,which is unfortunately leading to a productivity crisis in overseas studies.It is therefore finally pointed out in the paper that the consciousness to induce a necessary return to the nature of overseas studies needs to be raised on the part of all the three parties involved-the nation,the sending universities and the faculty members,if the effects of overseas studies are to be improved as hoped for.
作者
张冰冰
张青根
沈红
Zhang Bingbing;Zhang Qinggen;Shen Hong(School of Public Management,Northwest University,Xi＇an Shaanxi 710069;School of Education,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan Hubei 430074)
出处
《宏观质量研究》
CSSCI
2018年第2期114-128,共15页
Journal of Macro-quality Research
基金
国家自然科学基金面上项目(71273101)的资助
关键词
高校教师
海外访学经历
论文产出
倾向得分匹配方法
University Facuhy
Overseas Study Visits
Journal Paper Outputs
PropensPty ScoresMatch Method
