The Emergence of Undergraduate Academic Misconduct Competition Under the Recommended Admission System:A Cyber Ethnography Study Based on Social Platforms
In the process of the substantive development of higher education,whether students can establish a correct view of competition is not only related to the effectiveness of the recommended admission system but also to the improvement of the quality of undergraduate education in China.An analysis of cyber ethnography on Weibo,Zhihu,and Douban platforms reveals that the undesirable competition among undergraduate students exhibits characteristics in four aspects:from performance evaluation to comparative selection,from pursuing growth to chasing success,from cooperative competition to exclusive competition,and from challenging pressure to inhibitive pressure.This form of undesirable competition reflects collusion among multiple interest entities for limited resources and exposes deficiencies in authoritative rules within the institutional framework.To reduce and prevent undesirable competition,interventions can be made at three levels:at the ideological level,it is necessary to regulate the value orientation of academic evaluation policies and rectify the bias of meritocracy that prioritizes academic achievements;at the institutional level,efforts should be made to leverage the guiding role of institutions,enhancing the scientific and democratic operation of the recommended admission system;at the behavioral level,attention should be given to procedural fairness and outcome fairness,optimizing the action foundation for student participation in university governance.