Study on the Possible Application of Value-added Evaluation in Chinese Higher Education

Abstract

As China's higher education enters a new stage with high-quality development, the traditional result-oriented evaluation system can no longer fully reflect the true contribution of the teaching process. However, value-added evaluation, as a new evaluation concept that focuses on students’ growth and net educational contribution, provides a new path for quality governance of higher education. This paper focuses on the possible application of value-added evaluation in Chinese universities, which starting from the theoretical foundations of educational philosophy, outcome-based education and developmental evaluation theory, it constructs a "input-process-output" ternary structure and a "vertical-horizontal" two-dimensional analysis model. This paper systematically analyzes the realistic basis for Chinese universities to introduce value-added evaluation in terms of policy promotion, data support, teaching culture and institutional environment, proposes a multi-level and multi-path application strategy, and points out the multiple challenges in the implementation process, such as data, concepts, technology and resource fairness. This paper emphasizes that only under the coordinated promotion of concept guidance, mechanism construction and localization strategy, can value-added evaluation be realized from concept to educational practice, and help Chinese universities achieve quality leap and governance transformation.