Based on the practical exploration of class characteristic project construction in the past 7 years of Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, this article introduces the construction of class characteristic projects in terms of construction background, construction ideas, project implementation steps, main results and experience obtained. Practice has shown that the project construction has a positive significance and promotion value for promoting the construction of academic style in colleges and universities.
Style of study is the spiritual motivation, attitude, style, and methods that are condensed in the process of teaching and learning. It shows unique characteristics and rich connotations according to the different characteristics of different schools, and gradually through the will and actions of all members of the school. To form and solidify into a tradition and style, these traditions and styles play a significant role in the growth of students and have a profound impact on the development and construction of the school. The construction of style of study is in a very important position in the management of colleges and universities, and it is the top priority of the management of colleges and universities. For colleges and universities, the style of study is an important basis for measuring the effectiveness of a university student’s work. For students, serious and fulfilling college life while studying will not only leave traces of struggle for their university, but also for them in the future your work and life ( Fang, 2015). Excellent style of study has strong cohesion and positive binding force. It is a necessary guarantee for the completion of teaching tasks and a prerequisite for educational reform. It can promote the stable development of schools.
For many years, the College of Food Science of Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University has continuously explored effective ways to build a study style. In September 2009, the college implemented a class goal management project throughout the school. The class cohesion has been continuously strengthened, and the overall quality of students has improved significantly. After 5 years of practical exploration, a conclusion was drawn in the comparison of data and the analysis of the effectiveness of the implementation of each class project. The most significant effect in target management is the construction of the class’s characteristic culture. Based on this conclusion, in 2013, based on the extensive collection of opinions and suggestions from teachers and students, the Party Committee of the College of Food Science had decided to organize and carry out “the Academy has a brand, a specialty and a characteristic, a class has a project, and a student has a specialty.” “Class characteristic project construction is the enrichment and optimization of characteristic culture construction in class target management”. In 2018, in accordance with the requirements of the school’s academic style construction of “one hospital, one product”, the College of Food Science with its solid foundation and outstanding innovation as its starting point, identified the “project-driven” characteristic class construction project as the 2018 academic style construction brand project, and further developed the “class”. “Characteristic project construction” is the driving role of construction of study style.
The project focuses on cultivating students at different levels, students of lower grade focus on cultivating comprehensive qualities in all aspects, and higher grade students focus on cultivating professional practice and operation ability, providing strong support for students’ entrepreneurial employment. According to the characteristics of the class, the class determines a characteristic theme and develops a series of second classroom professional development and practical activities. Through one year, the class brand project is initially created to form class characteristics and create a strong class learning and academic atmosphere. Create a healthy class atmosphere and a rigorous and rich learning atmosphere within the scope.
Class characteristic project needs to be closely integrated with the main points of the school and college’s work this year, combined with the student’s specialty or class characteristics to form features and have clear expectations and acceptable results. Application can be made around quality improvement, professional practice, social research, hobbies, volunteer services, employment and entrepreneurship, etc., or you can choose one of the above points to apply, such as zero-level subject classes, bedroom hygiene 100% Qualified classes and other classes are encouraged to develop projects that can help strengthen students’ professional literacy, strengthen student skills training, build student autonomous learning platforms, and promote student entrepreneurship and employment.
The project construction period is one year and can be applied every year. The project can be continuous in content or a discontinuous project suitable for the characteristics of different grades of the class. Its purpose is to promote the construction of the class style. The entire implementation process of the project is divided into 7 stages: organization and launch, research application, review and approval, project implementation, mid-term inspection, experience summary, and acceptance and settlement. For example
1) The rate of student participation in class-specific project construction is high. The host contest, speech contest, skills contest and other activities organized by the school every day generally require students with special skills to participate, and the students participating in the class characteristic project are all students in the class. This actively mobilizes the initiative of all members of the class to achieve Involved in the full participation of students, self-education
| Implementation Phase | Main Content | Schedule |
|---|---|---|
| Organization Launch | Increase the publicity of the purpose and significance of the project construction, and enhance the enthusiasm and initiative of students. | Early March |
| Research Declaration | Combined with the characteristics of the class, after full consideration and repeated deliberation, determine the theme of the class’s characteristic project construction, and prepare application materials. | Mid-March |
| Review Project | Establish a project review team. The review team evaluates the necessity, reality, and feasibility of all declared projects according to the project application situation, and finally determines whether to pass or not by project presentation and defense. | Late March |
| Project Implementation | Approved classes follow the project construction implementation plan, carefully implement the project construction content, ensure that the project is progressed in a stable, orderly, solid and effective manner, and report to the college on the project construction activities in a timely manner. The head teacher, as the first instructor of project construction, must fulfill his duties of supervision and guidance. | April to Early December |
| Mid-term Inspection | Conduct a mid-term inspection of the project construction and put forward suggestions for improvement. | Early September |
| Lessons Learned | Comprehensively summarize and refine the implementation of the project, and systematically analyze the experience of class-specific project construction. | Mid-December |
| Acceptance Balance | The assessment will be conducted in the form of on-site statements and defenses, and the project review team will finally determine whether to pass the acceptance and close the project. | Late December |
and self-service. At the acceptance meeting in December 2019, a questionnaire survey was randomly conducted on the students. 70 questionnaires were sent and 68 were returned. According to the questionnaire, 98.53% of the students were aware of the theme of class special project construction and actively participated in the project construction.
2) The college has basically achieved the “eight high and four low” style of study. In 2018, “one hospital, one product” style of study proposed high student attendance rates, high pass rates, high grade rates, high award rates, high proportion of social practice participants, high employment rates, high student participation in scientific research, and campus cultural activities High grades; good academic style construction indicators of “eight high and four low” with low fail rate, low discipline rate, low absenteeism rate, and low academic warning rate. The school drives the construction of study style with class-specific project construction, and basically achieves the study style construction goal. For example
| Aims | Index | Compliance in 2018 | Compliance in 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eight high | High attendance | Over 98.5% | 99.12% | 98.95% |
| High pass rate | Over 97% | 97.21% | 97.45% | |
| High overgrade rate | English pass rate is about 40% | 45.58% | 40.21% | |
| High winning rate | The winning rate is over 60%, and the winning rate above provincial level is over 15%. | Winning rate was 78.25%; award rate above provincial level was 18.86% | Winning rate was 65.73%; award rate above provincial level was 21.53% | |
| High proportion of participants in social practice | The first grade basically achieved full coverage; other grades were not less than 40%. | The first-year participation rate was 94.63%; the other grades were 39.69%. | The first-year participation rate was 94.04%; the other grades were 41.18%. | |
| High employment rate | Achieve 90% of the college’s employment target | 91.85% | 93.68% | |
| High student participation in scientific research | Over 60% | 72.35% | 74.12% | |
| High-grade campus cultural activities | Theme, content and form innovation | Carry out a series of activities of “Inheriting the spirit of the Great Northern Wilderness and Writing a New Era Chapter”. Won “Advanced Campus Cultural Construction Subcommittee” | Carry out thematic education activities such as the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the 100th anniversary of the May 4th Movement, and further develop patriotic education. Won “Advanced Campus Cultural Construction Subcommittee” | |
| Four Low | Low student fail rate | Below 3% | 2.48% | 2.56% |
| Low discipline rate | Strive for zero discipline | 0.37% | 2.26% | |
| Low absenteeism | Below 1% | 0.32% | 0.58% | |
| Low academic alert rate | Below 8% | 7.52% | 5.85% | |
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3) Enriched class activities. Focusing on the characteristics of the class, class students carried out activities such as in-school learning exchanges and out-of-school practice surveys in teams as required by the project construction, which not only enriched the content of class activities, especially class meetings, but also expanded the scope of class activities, surpassing traditional singing The scope of cultural and recreational activities such as entertainment, games, and dinners has enhanced the content and quality of class activities and promoted the construction of class culture ( Yang& Kang, 2018).
4) Formed a group of distinctive class features. There are currently 5 majors in the School of Food. Through the classification and analysis of projects in recent years, it has been found that the classes of Food Science and Engineering focus on food production and research and development; the classes of Packaging Engineering focus on packaging testing and participation in various competitions Students with provincial or higher award rates are above 40%; classes of two majors, food quality and safety and food nutrition and inspection education, focus more on food safety promotion, research, and food safety prevention; classes of food engineering majors focus on deep processing of miscellaneous grain. Take the 2016 (1) class construction of food science and engineering as an example. See
1) Carefully planned and organized. All majors and classes should take the opportunity to carry out class-specific project construction activities, give full play to the initiative of class members, enhance students’ collective ideas, collaboration consciousness, and team spirit, and create a healthy class atmosphere and a rigorous and rich learning atmosphere.
2) Take professional development as the carrier and breakthrough for the construction of class-specific projects. Class-specific items can be centered on specialty or related to improving overall quality and ability. However, since the beginning of the sophomore year, the theme of professional development has been unified, which is closer to the actual needs and immediate interests of students. It can better mobilize students’ participation and gain the support of professional teachers and colleges.
3) The topic selection of class features should not be too large. Class special projects should focus on the personnel training goals of the specialty and specific content in the relevant field of the specialty, and must closely combine the
| Year | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Name | Hometown specialty food making and tasting | Home-made convenience foods | Hometown-friendly convenience food transformation |
| Main Content | Produce hometown specialties in groups, the producers introduce the ingredients and methods of cooking, class tasting. | In order to achieve the goal of “table food” transforming into “packaged food, shelf food”, the class first chose to make convenience foods, and selected more than ten kinds of convenient foods such as honey and meat preserves, cookies, diced tofu, and tofu. The shelf life of these foods has been studied intensively. Step by step, and gradually move towards the goal of making packaged food. | Repeated experiments and demonstrations on the packaging of the five convenient foods selected in the previous year’s project construction, and the corresponding packaging schemes were selected. Classmates actively participate in provincial science and technology competitions, participate in the “Production and Development Research of Special Agricultural Products in Heilongjiang Reclamation Area” project, and actively transform product results. |
| Achieve Results | The exchanges between students have improved, and they have a better understanding of Chinese food culture. The students have germinated the idea of turning “table food” into “packaged food”, and set this goal as the target of the second year class project construction. | Trained the students ‘practical skills; cultivated the team spirit of students, promoted class unity; strengthened the students’ love for the profession; initially selected 5 kinds of foods such as bowl cake, bean curd and almond jelly as the research of packaged food | The research results of class-specific project construction projects have won 6 provincial science and technology competition awards; a pumpkin multigrain bowl cake and its manufacturing method have been successfully applied for patents; the multigrain bowl cake and multigrain bean curd projects have been successfully transformed. |
work points of the school and college this year to determine the project construction topics; avoid problems such as a wide range of topics, difficulty, and poor operation.
4) The topic selection should reflect the principle of promoting student development, and promoting student development is one of the main goals of the study style construction. The first is to adhere to the principle of student body. Regardless of the design of the plan or the implementation of the project, the subject should be a class student, the purpose is to cultivate students’ sense of ownership and responsibility. The second is to adhere to the principle of facing the whole. The construction of class-specific projects is not a matter for the head teacher or the backbone of several students, but for each classmate to participate in and get exercise in the creation practice. The third is the principle of advancing with the times. Class development is a dynamic process. The construction period of a class’s characteristic project is one year, so the plan for creating a characteristic project must be forward-looking. In the process of creation, we must continuously adjust the creation goals and strategies according to the school’s education and teaching and the speed of class construction and development, so as to improve the effectiveness of the creation ( Yang, 2012).
5) Strengthen publicity and focus on accumulation. The construction of class-specific projects is an important carrier for strengthening the study style and displaying the results of class construction ( Chen & Wu, 2017). Excavating and publicizing the characteristics and highlights of each class should be paied attention to. Display activities between class groups, between classes and colleges should be regularly organized, and class “dot” activities should be used to promote the creation of a “face” atmosphere in a wider range of fields, thereby further reflecting the meaning and value of the activity. After 7 years of implementation and display, the teachers and students of the college are basically aware of the class project construction activities of the School of Food Science, and they have gained a small reputation in the school.
The construction of class-specific projects is an effective measure to promote the construction of style of study, and it has shown its distinctive highlights in practical exploration, such as high student participation; wide-ranging project content; projects are carried out at different levels; the grades focus on practical operation and the enhancement of entrepreneurship and employment ability; the project fully mobilizes students’ autonomy and creativity, and better realizes the combination of student spontaneity and teacher guidance. However, there are also problems such as incomplete evaluation systems and low incentives, which need to be improved in future practice.
The author declares no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
Wang, L. (2020). “Class Characteristic Project Construction” to Promote Study Style Construction Practice. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 8, 32-38. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2020.82003