Achievements and Challenges in the Anonymous Review of the Doctoral Dissertation
Anonymous review has gradually become the mainstream of doctoral dissertation evaluation in China.As the anonymous review weakens the"personal favor"and"bias"of the evaluation,the anonymous evaluation system of doctoral dissertations is generally effective.However,anonymous review also has systematic defects,including the unrealisticness of complete anonymity,unmatched expert selection,unstable evaluation process,inaccurate evaluation results,and unreasonable evaluation orientation.Moreover,the one-vote-veto implemented by many universities greatly magnifies the defects of anonymous review.Therefore,the anonymous review of doctoral dissertations should be improved by normalizing the use of anonymous review results,improving the reexamine procedure of the review,establishing the review mechanism with consistent rights and responsibilities and combining anonymous review and open evaluation.At the same time,a comprehensive doctoral quality assurance system should be established by moving forward the quality gate and improving the whole process of doctoral training.