POSTGRADUATE TRAINING MODEL COMBINING RESEARCH PROJECTS, SUBJECT COMPETITIONS, PAPERS AND EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR CHANGE EDUCATION: A MULTI CASE STUDY
Authors: Wang Xiaobo , Zhang Yi , Xie Fang , Ma Jisheng , Chowdhury Ahmed Jalal Khan 
Published: July 2022

Background

Scientific research projects and discipline competitions play a vital role in cultivating postgraduates' innovation ability and engineering practice ability. Thesis writing is an important part of postgraduate training. Mental health education is an important part of graduate education. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to construct the postgraduate training mode combining the above four elements to realize efficient and high-quality education. The purpose of this study is to explore the role of the model in promoting the changes of students' emotional behavior.

Topics and Methods

Using the text survey method, this paper analyzes the award-winning projects of graduate innovation fund project undertaken by graduate students of Xijing University, Chinese graduate innovation practice series, Chinese “Internet” student innovation and entrepreneurship competition and other disciplines. Competition and papers. At the same time, the study investigated the students' emotional behavior towards the training mode. This study adopts (1) positive emotion scale. Panas emotion scale developed by Watson et al. It is widely used to measure emotions. The scale includes two dimensions: positive emotion and negative emotion. Assessing regulatory emotional self-efficacy in three countries (RES) was compiled by Caprara in 2008 and applied by many scholars to measure emotional regulatory self-efficacy. Considering the cultural differences, Tian Xueying revised the scale in China in combination with the current social situation in China. The total score of the test result scale is consistent with Cronbach's of all dimensions α the coefficients are &gt; 0.7, with good acceptability and high reliability. The scale has a total of 12 items, including four dimensions: expressing positive emotional self-efficacy (POS), regulating positive emotional self-efficacy (MPOs), regulating depression / pain emotional self-efficacy (DES) and regulating anger or anger emotional self-efficacy (ANG). Using the five-level scale method, the scores correspond to 1 ~ 5 points respectively. The correlation between each dimension is low and has a certain independence, but it is closely related to the total score, which reflects the good structural validity of the scale.

Results

From 2012 to 2019, mechanical graduate students applied for the establishment of 77 graduate innovation fund projects, and 92.8% of the students received the support of innovation fund. From 2014 to 2021, a total of 122 discipline competition teams for postgraduates majoring in machinery were established. A total of 76 awards were won in the series of Chinese graduate innovation practice competitions, accounting for 62% of the total awards. Based on the analysis of the papers of graduates from 2015 to 2020, 34.3% of the papers were funded by the innovation fund and participated in the discipline competition with the results of the fund. It can be seen from table 1 that the average score of the total score of emotional regulation self-efficacy is (42.31 ± 7.59) (the score range is 16 ~ 60), indicating that the emotional regulation self-efficacy of college students is higher than the midline level, the score of POS dimension is (12.14 ± 2.39) (the score range is 3 ~ 15), the score of MPOs dimension is (10.94 ± 2.45) (the score range is 3 ~ 15), and the score of Des dimension is (9.50 ± 2.98) (the score range is 3 ~ 15), The score of ang dimension is (9.72 ± 2.63) (the score range is 3 ~ 15), indicating that there is a certain structural imbalance in the process of dealing with emotions.

Conclusion

Xijing University has explored and constructed an efficient and high-quality professional postgraduate training mode from the four dimensions of scientific research projects, discipline competitions, dissertations and mental health education, so as to make graduate education pay more attention to the cultivation of innovation and engineering. Practice provides a useful reference for the cultivation of high-level applied technology talents.

Acknowledgements

Supported by a project grant from the Research and Practice Project of Comprehensive Reform of Graduate Education in Shaanxi Province (YJSZG2020095), and the Education Science Planning Project of Shaanxi Province during the 13th Five-Year Planning period (SGH18H578).