What Factors of the Applicants are Influencing the Performance of Research Science Education? A Back-chaining Evaluation Based on the Data of China National Science Foundation

Huping Shang; Qingying Han; Yan Li

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Huping Shang ¹, Qingying Han ¹, Yan Li ² ^*

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¹ Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin CHINA² Division of Hunanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian CHINA^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

How to predict the performance of an applicant is a core issue in the process of research project funding. Unlike the traditional way, we use a back-chaining evaluation method to test what factors of an applicant are influencing the performance of the research project based on the data of Chinese National Science Foundation. We find that the gender never affects the performance, and the age group of 41-45 is significantly helpful in improving the performance, but the age group of 46-50 obviously does harm in improving the performance. What’s more, the affiliation of 211-poject university could do good to the performance, while the educational or academic titles of academician and Yangtze River Scholar prevent the applicants from improving their performances. According to these findings, we advice to take the measures of implementing some specific research projects, some special projects, and some exclusive projects to varied research groups to improve the research performance.

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research performance
back-chaining performance evaluation
applicant
influencing factors

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 14, Issue 7, July 2018, 2803-2815

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Shang, H., Han, Q., & Li, Y. (2018). What Factors of the Applicants are Influencing the Performance of Research Science Education? A Back-chaining Evaluation Based on the Data of China National Science Foundation. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(7), 2803-2815. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/89519

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Shang H, Han Q, Li Y. What Factors of the Applicants are Influencing the Performance of Research Science Education? A Back-chaining Evaluation Based on the Data of China National Science Foundation. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2018;14(7):2803-15. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/89519

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Shang H, Han Q, Li Y. What Factors of the Applicants are Influencing the Performance of Research Science Education? A Back-chaining Evaluation Based on the Data of China National Science Foundation. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2018;14(7), 2803-2815. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/89519

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Shang, Huping, Qingying Han, and Yan Li. "What Factors of the Applicants are Influencing the Performance of Research Science Education? A Back-chaining Evaluation Based on the Data of China National Science Foundation". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2018 14 no. 7 (2018): 2803-2815. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/89519

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Shang, H., Han, Q., and Li, Y. (2018). What Factors of the Applicants are Influencing the Performance of Research Science Education? A Back-chaining Evaluation Based on the Data of China National Science Foundation. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(7), pp. 2803-2815. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/89519

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Shang, Huping et al. "What Factors of the Applicants are Influencing the Performance of Research Science Education? A Back-chaining Evaluation Based on the Data of China National Science Foundation". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 14, no. 7, 2018, pp. 2803-2815. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/89519