Improving Postgraduate Students' Scientific Literacy and Research Ability Using Workshops: Evidence from a Chinese University—Theory, Achievements and Reflection

Abstract

Postgraduate education bears the dual mission of "high-end talent supply" and "scientific and technological innovation". Whether there is a matching scientific literacy and spirit is one of the important criteria for evaluating the teaching quality of postgraduate students and their universities. With the specific design and implementation of the short-term workshop and the investigation and research, this paper observes and analyzes the performance of the new postgraduate s of the school of business administration of a university in Shandong Province in the six-week workshop, and then discusses how to use this education mode to improve the scientific literacy and research ability of the postgraduate students. The research results show that the workshop, which combines academic lectures and individual and team research exercises, is of practical significance for improving the scientific literacy of postgraduate students. It is also suggested that colleges and universities should refer to the theoretical and practical value of the model and rationally adopt the workshop model to optimize postgraduate education.