The Training Mode Reform of Physical Practical Talents Emphasizing on Innovation Ability

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The Training Mode Reform of Physical Practical Talents

Emphasizing on Innovation Ability

Shiming Hao, Liben Li, Xinzhong Li, Xiaoyang Gong

School of Physics and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Te chnol ogy, Luoy ang, China

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Received November 13th, 2013; revised December 13th, 2013; accepted Decem ber 20th, 2013

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The quality education is to develop students’ creative spirit and practical ability. Physics teaching can of-

fer strict training for students in different scientific experiments, calculation and thinking; cultivate their

ability in analyzing and solving problems and enhance their science quality and creative ability. This pa-

per puts forward that the critical point of College Physics’ reform in the applied-oriented college is to

build up a practical system in physics’ teaching. In order to meet the social needs, a new educational con-

cept should be established, with scientific and reasonable teaching content as well as the advanced teach-

ing methods. According to their teaching practice, the authors talk about some points on how to develop

students’ science quality and creative ability from the angle of upgrading teaching contents and reforming

teaching way.

Keywords: Teaching Reform; Innovation Ability; Physics; Teaching Content ; Engineering Univers i t y

Introduction

In the reform process of education to promote quality educa-

tion, highlighting the students’ innovative ability, and actively

exploring ways and means to train innovative and practical

high-quality talents, are higher education theme of reform and

development. In recent years, Chinese higher education has

been considerably developing and enrollment continues to ex-

pand. There has also been the employment problem of college

graduates. On the surface, this is mainly because the universi-

ty-trained people are not well adapted to social changes to meet

the social long-term needs, resulting in a relative surplus of

talent and employment difficulties. But the deep reasons are

mainly the poor cultural education, narrow professional educa-

tion and strong common constraints (Pei, Cui, & Sun, 2013).

Deficiency of innovative consciousness and innovative ability

is its main performance. The level of talent depends largely on

the quality of its innovative consciousness and innovative abil-

ity, which is the bottleneck problem in the current higher edu-

cation.

Physics is the foundation of today’s high-tech innovation and

development. It’s also the backbone of a variety of technical

disciplines. Cross professional expertise includes optics, engi-

neering physics, semiconductors and materials expertise and so

on. At present, China’s demand for physical professional tale nt

is still in short supply, but the surface is a student employment

pressure. Society requires physics majors should have a solid

theoretical foundation and application of physical experience,

but the innovation ability in practice is the key to decide

whether they can turn into personnel in many engineering and

technical areas. Based on the big background of the demand for

personnel training coupled with building an innovation-oriented

country and international economic integration, it is important

to speed up education reform and development, and put the im-

portant connotation of quality education into all levels of edu-

cation process (Gess-Newsome, Southerland, Johnston, &

Woodbury, 2003).

In teaching practice, in accordance with this idea to set the

curriculum, teaching and teaching content put opening innova-

tive ideas throughout the physics undergraduate practice teach-

ing (Henderson, & Dancy, 2008). I hope this exploration can

provide a reference for better training, bring up high level with

innovative practical talents, build an innovation-oriented coun-

try, enhance independent innovation capability as well as pro-

vide the most important driving force for the sustainable de-

velopment of high-tech industries.

Analysis of Current Situation

Physics majors students have solid basic knowledge, general

theory, good at finding the problem, thinking, with a certain

sense of innovation, but creative thinking, innovation and prac-

tical ability was poor, innovative personality has not y et formed.

The formati on of these abilities and qualities are needed ste p by

step guide and training. Physics majors students generally have

innovative motivation, creative desires, but the school can pro-

vide the environment for innovation is limited, the innovation

and atmosphere is lack. The students’ creative potential is dif-

ficult to play and innovation capability is difficult to obtain.

On the other hand, the students do not make good use of ex-

isting resources and conditions, not spontaneously create their

own resources and conditions needed. In addition, the teaching

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mode, which is not conducive to the development of students’

personality and talents; examination methods and examination

content to guide students to dull reading; evaluation of students

test scores be the main advantages and disadvantages of the

curriculum, etc., have hindered the students’ innovative con-

sciousness and creative ability.

1) Narrow curriculum limiting students’ creative ability.

Since the physical professional courses generally are difficult,

arduous, students only exercise in the narrow range of profes-

sional activities and ignore the study of humanities and social

science knowledge and adjacent disciplines, thus limiting their

horizons, affecting the innovation ability.

2) Experimental teaching model is obsolete and teaching ef-

fect is not ideal.

3) Research environment and atmosphere of research and

innovation ability are lack.

4) Lack of effective internal and external practice ground.

School laboratory experiments mainly complete the curri culum -

experiment, open management model is not enough. Experi-

mental practice ground has following features: little cost of

hardware, lack of effective cycle mechanism.

5) The evaluation of students and teachers is not enough

scientific evaluation mechanism. Currently evaluation criteria

are academic students, and thus lead to a certain extent, one-

sided pursuit of student academic performance, neglect other

capabilities, especially research innovation ability. For the

evaluation of teaching behavior also look at the number of

teachers to teach students the knowledge and the students to

acquire knowledge of the situation, do not pay attention to

teachers in the teaching process or pay attention to discovering

whether good or ask a question, do not focus on evaluation of

teachers to students’ creative thinking abili ty.

Specific Content of Reform

1) Revising training program, optimizing the course structure

and setting diversity training direction.

Ability to innovate comes from the basics of generosity and

good quality, just mastering a single professional knowledge is

difficult to achieve. Therefore, it is important to enhance stu-

dents’ connotation and denotation of professional basic educa-

tion and construct a reasonable curriculum system. First, to

optimize the course structure, according to the “fewer but better”

principle set compulsory to ensure that students have a more

solid foundation of knowledge. Increasing the proportion of

elective courses, allowing students to choose elective courses

interdisciplinary or interdisciplinary, impel students having a

strong comprehensive interdisciplinary training. By means of

hierarchical courses, elective courses as far as possible combi-

nation of the aptitude, interest and learning and improving their

access to information, students have access to cutting-edge

development of various disciplines to understand the trend of

technological development and seize the future changes law.

2) Reform of classroom teaching and teaching forms, putting

the cultivate of innovation ability into the classroom.

Classroom teaching is the basic component of teaching. stu-

dents “innovative spirit and ability must also penetrate into the

process of teaching subjects. To combine the students” cogni-

tive levels and life experience, the creation of new teaching

scenarios to stimulate students to actively explore desires. In

teaching, creating a classroom atmosphere to encourage stu-

dents’ creativity, using various forms of classroom teaching, so

that students consciously take the initiative to learn. Strengthen

the mutual penetration and cross-disciplinary integration, broa-

den students’ thinking space, is conducive to the improvement

of the overall quality of students. By means of the integration of

knowledge and high-tech frontier and increasing the amount of

information the classroom to inspire students’ innovative spirit

(Driel, Beijaard, & Verloop, 2001).

3) Implementation three-dimensional hierarchical teaching

model of experimental class of to explore opening experimental

teaching system.

Taking full advantage of equipment and faculty of Henan

province physics experiment teaching demonstration center, we

explore and improve the implementation of the open experi-

mental teaching method and application in the classroom

teaching, laboratory skills competition, innovative experiment

design competition, photonics design competition, the experi-

mental model competition, mathematical contest in modeling,

and undergraduate graduation design (thesis). We reform labor-

atory management mechanism, and explore the opening labor-

atory management and institutions (Sun, 2006).

4) Reforming and improving students’ scientific and tech-

nological innovation system, establishing internal innovation

practice ground.

Implementation of student research training program to guide

students to conduct research under the guidance of teacher

training; teachers encourage students to participate in research

projects, scientific research; hired well-known experts and

scholars do academic reports for students, so that students un-

derstand the academic development of physics frontier; en-

courage students to declare student research training program,

scientific and technological innovation projects, through scien-

tific research to promote teaching to enhance students’ scientif-

ic literacy and scientific spirit. In the creation of innovative

laboratory, we actively introduce funding for students on cam-

pus to create innovative practice base.

5) The establishment and expansion of colleges, enterprises

and training model, the establishment of campus practice

ground, build a new model of personnel training.

Establishment and expansion of colleges, enterprises and

training mode, and promote undergraduate education and social

integration demand for talent to enhance students’ employabil-

ity, build a new model of personnel training. We establish joint

training model with enterprises closely to physics, such as

Luoyang CAMA control, the Four Seasons Muge Ltd et al, to

improve the students’ practical ability, training services for the

regional economy practical talents.

6) Reforming and improving the evaluation system, estab-

lishing and improving the innovation incentives.

Education Management evaluation is a special implementa-

tion of control measures and is an important part of education

management. Evaluation of the students not only to examine

the comprehensiveness of the importance of knowledge, but

also to focus on capacity (especially innovation ) of the test. We

evaluate the learning effect through diversification of exam,

exam time autonomy, or the use of non-exam evaluation study

by writing special reports, writing academic papers, research

projects and other forms of assessment in science.

While building on students’ awareness of innovation, crea-

tivity, innovation positive incentive mechanism, namely giving

positive incentives and rewards to the students having a variety

of innovative behavior and outcomes. Evaluation of teaching

behavior of teachers not only look at the number of teachers to

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impart knowledge to students and students to acquire know-

ledge of the situation, it also depends on its ability to focus on

training students’ creative thinking ability.

Preliminary Results and Practical Effects

1) Facilitating the formation of new physics professional

training programs and personnel training mode conducive to

students “innovative ability, creating a training system condu-

cive to students” innovative ability. Combining students “In-

novation Ability basis, presenting and establishing the physical

training system and platform of professional students” innova-

tive ability from both hardware and software.

2) Establishing and improving hierarchical opening experi-

mental teaching system and new laboratory management opera-

tion mode. Building open experimental teaching management

sites of physics experiment teaching demonstration center.

3) Establishing and perfecting physics student research

training program system and the research project system. Un-

dergraduate Research Training Program for credits and effort,

funding and support teaching conditions, requirements for ins-

tructors, requirements for students, scheduling, project manage-

ment and put forward clear and specific requirements, forming

a perfect system.

4) Establishing joint training system of colleges and enter-

prises. the formation of the specific system for cultured form,

implementation, and evaluation.

5) Setting game system of specification experimental skills

contest, challenge cup, mathematical modeling contests, and

creating a favorable environment for i nnovation and c reati ve at-

mosphere.

Through a series of reforms, student increase interest in

learning, improving positive initiative, and actively participat-

ing the lab work and the teacher’s task; the proportion of stu-

dents participate in business practices and improving working

ability. Many students achieve frequently good results at the

national, provincial competitions. High quality of the research

reflecting project, was published at least 36 research papers.

The results of the reform project teaching object directly benefit

two professional Institute of Physics and Engineering (Mate-

rials Physics, Applied Physics) students of more than 300

people. More than 4000 engineering students obtain a benefit

from opening experiments. Project results serve as a model of

teaching and guiding role for other science and engineering

majors, and expect to play the role of radiation and learn to the

training of creative ability for similar colleges and universities

of the province and the country’s science and engineering stu-

dents.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Henan provincial higher educa-

tion teaching reform project of China (No. 2012SJGLX149).

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