All secondary schools:

In accordance with the "Implementation Plan for the Evaluation of Undergraduate Teaching Work at Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology" (Guangyingsci [2022] No. 250) and the "Construction Plan for the Evaluation of Undergraduate Teaching at Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology", in order to gain a thorough understanding of the teaching work and classroom teaching effectiveness this semester, strengthen the management of the teaching and assessment process, and improve the quality of teaching and assessment, the University has decided to conduct the mid-term teaching inspection for the second semester of the 2024-2025 academic year from the 9th to the 12th week. The specific work arrangements are as follows:

I. Inspection Form

The mid-term teaching inspection will be carried out under a two-level inspection system of the University and the secondary colleges. It will be conducted through self-inspection by the secondary colleges and spot checks by the University.

(1) Self-inspection by the colleges

Each secondary college should form a mid-term teaching inspection working group consisting of the Dean, vice Dean in charge of teaching, department heads (teaching and research directors), and teaching administrative staff to be responsible for the comprehensive self-inspection.

(2) Spot checks by the University

The University will form a university-level mid-term teaching inspection working group to be responsible for the spot checks.

Group Leader: Vice President in charge of teaching, Vice President in charge of student affairs

Group Members: University presidents, Director of the Academic Affairs Office, Director of the Student Affairs Office, Director of the Teaching Quality Monitoring and Evaluation Center, and staff from the Academic Affairs Office.

II. Inspection Content

All secondary colleges must attach great importance to and take the mid-term teaching inspection seriously. In combination with the qualified assessment construction projects, they should mobilize all teachers to actively participate in course construction, teaching reform, and the improvement of assessment quality. They should strictly follow the inspection time and content set by the University and earnestly implement all inspection tasks.

(1) Course Construction

1. Inspection of the construction of basic teaching documents

Each course offering unit should, in line with the requirements of the qualified assessment, attach importance to the improvement of course construction quality. They should focus on inspecting the construction of basic teaching documents such as the teaching syllabus, teaching schedule, and lesson plans for the courses offered this semester, and urge teachers to update and improve teaching archives in a timely manner.

The inspection should cover the following aspects:

(1) Quality of the teaching syllabus and teaching schedule: Check whether the teaching syllabus is consistent with the talent cultivation plan and course setting, and whether there is a syllabus for each course. Check whether the content of the syllabus is complete, systematic, and written in accordance with norms. Check the consistency of the knowledge, ability, and quality in the syllabus' training objectives with the graduation requirements, the consistency of the teaching process with the training objectives, and whether the assessment content and methods cover the assessment of knowledge, ability, and quality.

(2) Whether the teaching schedule is reasonably designed in accordance with the content of the teaching syllabus and the teaching weeks.

(3) Quality of lesson plans and experimental course guidance materials: Check whether the content of the lesson plans matches the teaching syllabus and teaching schedule, and whether the content of the lesson plans is updated in a timely manner. Check whether experimental courses have prepared experimental guidance materials as required and whether they are written in accordance with norms and have practical guiding significance.

(4) Quality of course teaching: Check whether teachers strictly follow the requirements of the teaching syllabus and teaching schedule for teaching content and progress arrangement in actual teaching. Check whether the teaching design of the course is conducive to improving the teaching effect. Check the organization of classroom teaching and the quality of teaching.

2. Main inspection items

(1) Classroom teaching inspection: Implement the "three norms" of classroom management, and inspect the classroom teaching order, teaching organization, students' learning status, and attendance rate of teachers this semester. Inspect the implementation of experimental and practical courses by teachers and whether the teaching content is in accordance with the teaching syllabus and schedule. Inspect the quality and implementation of the "five items" in the classroom.

(2) Teaching order inspection: Inspect the situation of class substitutions and adjustments from the 1st to the 9th week.

(3) Inspection of teaching and research activities in secondary colleges: The number of activities conducted this semester, the organization and implementation of teaching and research activities, main achievements, existing problems, and suggestions.

(4) Teacher-student symposium: Each secondary college should organize and arrange teacher-student symposiums on their own.

(2) Assessment Quality

To enhance the quality of course assessment in our university, each course offering unit must strictly follow the University’s reform requirements for course assessment, and focus on improving the process management of regular scores, ensuring the quality of final exam questions, conducting score analysis, and checking and archiving test papers. For specific requirements, please refer to the "Regulations on the Assessment and Score Management of Undergraduate Courses of Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology (Revised)" (Guangyingsci [2023] No. 290).

1. Standardization of Regular Scores

(1) Check the rationality of regular scores. Focus on checking whether the proportion of regular scores and final exam scores for each course is consistent with the course teaching syllabus; whether the registration, calculation, and evaluation standards of regular score sheets are standardized.

(2) Check the process management of regular scores. Whether the proportion of regular scores in the total score and the proportion of each item in the process assessment in the regular scores are reasonable.

(3) Check the archiving of regular scores. Check whether the course teachers have established students' regular score files, and whether they have recorded students' attendance, classroom performance, homework (lab reports, works), and unit tests, etc., and whether the original materials are complete and properly recorded and filed.

2. Enhancement of Test Paper Quality

(1) Check the quality of test papers. Emphasize the standardized management of test papers, ensuring that all materials are complete, the scoring standards are reasonable and detailed, and the test paper packaging is filled out completely as required. Pay attention to the quality of question setting, which should comply with the teaching syllabus, have diverse question types, and be reasonable in quantity and difficulty.

(2) Check the quality of marking. Require strict and fair marking, without misjudgment or omission, and accurate total score calculation.

(3) Marking quality. Refer to Article 25, Paragraph 2 of Chapter 9 of the "Regulations on the Assessment and Score Management of Undergraduate Courses of Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology (Revised)" (Guangyingsci [2023] No. 290).

3. Improvement of Score Analysis

Mainly check the overall situation of each course teacher's analysis of the test papers. Whether they analyze the test papers themselves as required by the document, in detail and with targeted suggestions, and whether they put forward feasible opinions.

4. Archiving Materials of Test Papers

All courses that pass the inspection must be archived strictly according to the University’s scheduled time. Each teaching unit should organize the archiving directory as required.

(3) Self-inspection of Enterprise Practice Teaching

Each secondary college should conduct self-inspection of the archiving of enterprise practice teaching for the 2021 grade, and include the self-inspection results in the mid-term teaching inspection summary. The Academic Affairs Office will arrange personnel for spot checks and summarize the spot check results.

III. Time Arrangement

1. Each secondary college should submit the electronic and paper versions (with the department seal) of the mid-term teaching inspection work arrangement (including inspection team members, inspection content, work arrangement, time, location, participants of the teacher-student symposium, and summary meeting arrangement) to the Academic Affairs Office by the end of the 9th week (April 25th).

2. From the 10th week (April 28th) to the 11th week (May 9th), each college should carry out self-inspection.

3. By the end of the 12th week (May 12th), each secondary college should submit the electronic and paper versions (including the paper version of the mid-term teaching inspection work arrangement, signed by the department head and sealed with the department seal) of the mid-term teaching inspection materials and summary to the Academic Affairs Office.

4. The Academic Affairs Office will conduct on-site spot checks on the above materials in the 12th and 13th weeks. The specific time arrangement will be determined later.

IV. Work Requirements

1. Each secondary college should make targeted rectifications based on the problems found in the initial teaching inspection by the Academic Affairs Office, including but not limited to:

(1) Unify the font and format;

(2) All meeting record materials should include a cover page, table of contents, summary, evaluation suggestions, and handwritten signatures;

(3) Course teaching archives should have a cover page, table of contents, course summary, homework assignment, signatures of the department (teaching & research center) director and the dean. (4) The cover page information of the examination papers should be filled out completely, and the directory, sample papers, attendance sheets, examination paper analysis, improvement measures, etc. should be filled out in a standardized manner.

2. Each secondary college should, based on the relevant contents of this notice, clarify the inspection arrangements, refine the inspection contents and methods, and do a good job in mobilizing teachers and students. The mid-term teaching inspection is a self-inspection and improvement of the University’s work in the first half of this semester. Each secondary college should, with a realistic attitude, organize and conduct the inspection seriously. For the problems found during the inspection process, practical and feasible solutions should be proposed to lay a solid foundation for the qualified assessment work.

Academic Affairs Office

April 21, 2025