Extracurricular activities of graduate students
First of all, the questions raised
Einstein came to an amazing conclusion in the study of people's "employment" and "leisure", "The difference between people lies in leisure time". To improve the quality of graduate students, we should pay attention to their study life, but we should pay more attention to their spare time life. At present, China has 1 14 days of national legal holidays, which means that most working people in China have 1/3 of their spare time. Graduate students, like college students, spend 60 days in winter and summer vacations, about 170 days in leisure, which is close to the annual 1/2. In addition, due to factors such as subject characteristics and specific professional requirements, graduate students have limited courses each semester, so they have more extracurricular time. So, how do graduate students arrange and use these extracurricular time?
With the enrollment expansion of graduate students, graduate teaching has become undergraduate, the quality of graduate students has declined, and the level of academic research is not high. It is a complex and arduous task to improve the quality and academic level of graduate students. As we all know, the academic research level of graduate students can not be improved by listening to the scientific research reports of famous professors and learning the methods and skills of doing research for one or two semesters. It is a process of constant perception, discussion, communication and practice, and the key lies in making full use of extracurricular time and learning (generalized learning) and accumulation outside the classroom. In this way, paying attention to the extracurricular life of graduate students and carrying out practical extracurricular activities can not only improve the academic and scientific research level of graduate students, but also standardize and effectively manage the education of graduate students in colleges and universities, thus improving the management efficiency of colleges and universities and fully saving management resources.
Second, the compilation and implementation of the questionnaire
In this study, the full-time graduate students of Zhejiang Normal University were investigated by questionnaire, and the students in Grade One, Grade Two and Grade Three were interviewed preliminarily. On the basis of interviews, a questionnaire on graduate students' extracurricular life was compiled from five dimensions (knowledge, communication, entertainment, sports and part-time job) and two aspects (extracurricular time and extracurricular activities), and a preliminary test was conducted. There were 60 subjects, including 26 males and 34 females. There were 60 valid questionnaires, and the recovery rate was 100%. Statistical analysis by SPSS 13.0 software shows that the validity of the questionnaire is 0.73, with 40 valid items, and the reliability after the second test is 0.86. After deleting the invalid items, determine the final questionnaire. The survey is a dormitory group test. 200 questionnaires were distributed, and 192 were valid, with a recovery rate of 96%, including 84 males and 0/06 females. There are 134 and 58 disciplines in arts and sciences, and 82, 68 and 42 disciplines in the first, second and third graduate schools respectively.
Third, the survey results and analysis
1. Postgraduates' satisfaction with extracurricular life
In interviews with graduate students, it is found that many graduate students are not satisfied with their current extracurricular life. In the question "How satisfied are you with your extracurricular life", it is found that only 28. 1% graduate students are satisfied with their extracurricular life, and only 2 of them are very satisfied; 24.9% graduate students are dissatisfied with their extracurricular life, and only two are very dissatisfied; 47% graduate students think their extracurricular life is average, with no good or bad, no satisfaction or dissatisfaction. It can be concluded that most graduate students are not satisfied with their extracurricular life, but only a few people are aware of this problem, and most graduate students are not clearly aware of whether they are satisfied with their life, and are in a state of ignorance and confusion.
2. Postgraduates' satisfaction with extracurricular time arrangement
The survey shows that 465,438+0.8% graduate students spend a lot of extra-curricular time on entertainment (such as chatting online, playing games, watching entertainment news, shopping, falling in love, etc.). ), and the weekly time is more than 60 hours, that is, the time spent on entertainment is far more than 8 hours a day, which exceeds the normal work and physiological time. The second is seeking knowledge, accounting for only 33.7%, and communication, sports and part-time jobs are 13.7%, 7.3% and 17.5% respectively. In this survey, there are more graduate students who don't study every week, and the proportion of graduate students in the first, second and third grades is 58%, 37% and 43% respectively. This is significantly different from the fact that 40.5% graduate students want to spend their extracurricular time on knowledge, which shows that the arrangement of graduate students' leisure time is unreasonable. Graduate students hope to spend their extra-curricular time seeking knowledge and enrich their extra-curricular life by increasing their knowledge, but this is not the case. They live a monotonous and time-consuming life, and the holding company wastes a lot of time on "online chatting" and "shopping". Results 79.2% graduate students are not satisfied with this extracurricular schedule.
3. Gender differences in extracurricular time arrangement of graduate students.
Through the statistical analysis of SPSS 13.0 software, the table 1 is obtained. It is found that there are significant differences between male and female graduate students in extracurricular knowledge seeking and sports activities, which is embodied in female students' P=0.028.