The Misdirection and Return of Graduate Course Teaching
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Keywords

Graduate students
Courses
Misdirection
Return

DOI

10.26689/jcer.v8i5.6899

Submitted : 2024-05-24
Accepted : 2024-06-08
Published : 2024-06-23

Abstract

Graduate course teaching plays an irreplaceable role in knowledge mastery, skill enhancement, and quality cultivation of graduate students. This paper addresses current issues in graduate course teaching, such as ambiguous objectives, formulaic content, formalistic operation, and oversimplified evaluation. It proposes corresponding solutions with the hope of steering graduate course teaching back to its original purpose and realizing its true significance.

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