On setting up teaching assessment system at department level in colleges and universities

Key words: 
• colleges and universities /
• teaching management /
• teaching assessment /
• index system

Abstract: The teaching management at the department level is a very important administrative level in college educational management with the enlarging of the scales of colleges and universities and the deepening of educational reform , and establishment of a teaching assessment system at department level has become one important part of the college teaching management reform.From the aspects of content and orientation of the system, the principles of setting up the system, the construction of supporting roles and the founding of the supervising system , this paper makes a constructive approach into the problem of setting up such a teaching assessment system .It is held that the content of the teaching assessment at the department level should include speciality development objective , speciality construction , subject construction , teachers training , teaching management , teaching research and teaching effect .The qualification of the assessment is stressed first while aiming at excellence .The building of the system should be based on instructive and workable with a combination of ration and quality .In order to put the assessment into effect , the detailed rules and standard of carrying out the teacing management should be formulated and a teaching supervising system at the department level should be set up on the basis of building and perfecting the teaching management system.