The Construction of the Index System for Quality Evaluation in Professional Graduate Education Based on Stakeholder Theory

Abstract

The quality evaluation system is critical part in keeping the high quality and healthy development of graduate education. There still exists many vulnerabilities and shortcomings in current system, which often pose a strong influence on the efficiency of evaluation and the accuracy of evaluation results. To tackle this problem, we propose an index system for graduate education evaluation based on stakeholder theory, which expands the “three-elements” evaluation subjects that consists of government, society and university, to a “five-elements” evaluation subjects by adding mentor and student as subjects according to the stakeholder theoretical model; then an evaluation index system is constructed on the “five-elements” evaluation subjects. Our evaluation system makes up the vulnerabilities and deficiencies in the current evaluation index system, improves the scientificity and accuracy of evaluation in professional degree graduate education effectively.