Establishing and Reorganizing the Evaluation Index System of Academic Advising in Sino-foreign Higher Education

Abstract

Recent years, an innovation education model, the Sino-foreign college has been gaming its popularity in China. Compare to traditional Chinese education system, students under this kind of college will have more specific and complicated requirements. As we know from current literate research, academic advising would be an effective way of solving various problems from students. However, seldom have Chinese college had set up specific academic advising institutions, neither there is a universal standard to estimate the effectiveness of advising. So, this research aims to establish a complete evaluation index system to testify whether the current academic advising method is effective. We comlN)sed an original draft of the evaluation index, then conducted a random survey among students from Sino-foreign colleges in China to Check out the importance Of each evaluation index, Finally, we analyzed the survey result and then reorganized the evaluation index system by using hierarchical cluster method based on the result of the survey.