The Reform of Academic Evaluation Mechanism of College Teachers: Logic, Dilemma and Path——Based on the Perspective of Academic Community

Journal of Measurement and Evaluation

JME, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.160-178.

Print ISSN: 3106-0463; Online ISSN: 3106-0471

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DOI：Https://doi.org/10.64058/JME.26.1.09

The Reform of Academic Evaluation Mechanism of College Teachers: Logic, Dilemma and Path——Based on the Perspective of Academic Community

Zhang Xilin, Yao Yihang(translator)

Abstract: Academic evaluation mechanism is considered as the core of scientific research system. It can not only directly guide and regulate the academic behavior of college teachers, but also affect the knowledge production innovation of the whole country and even human society. Fundamentally speaking, academic evaluation of college teachers is a complex academic activity rather than a simple management activity, but the current evaluation mechanism has shown excessive quantitative, simplification and administrative tendency due to the strong thought of performance management. Therefore, reunderstanding the logic of power operation, classification management and procedure regulation of teachers' academic evaluation based on the framework and theoretical perspective of academic community has unique value in promoting the reform of evaluation mechanism. Through practical investigation, it is found that many problems caused by the interweaving of multiple powers, such as the unclear subject boundary, the lack of full respect for the law of knowledge production innovation, the instability of institutional norms based on procedural justice, and the lack of credibility of evaluation results caused by rent-seeking in academic relations are destroying the subjective status of academic community in academic evaluation. To promote the reform of academic evaluation mechanism of college teachers, it is necessary to reconstruct the academic evaluation ecology based on procedural justice and knowledge production law on the basis of separation of management and evaluation operation, so as to give better play to the subjective function of academic community.

Keywords: academic community; college teachers; academic evaluation; mechanism; reform

Author Biographies: Zhang Xilin, Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education, East China Normal University. Research interests: educational evaluation research. Yao Yihang (translator), corresponding author, Master's student at the School of Statistics and Data Science, Zhejiang Gongshang University. Research interests: finance and data statistics, E-mail: 1169479661@qq.com.

Received: 15 Jan 2026 / Revised: 06 Feb 2026 / Accepted: 20 Feb 2026/ Published online: 30 Apr 2026 / Print published: 30 May 2026.

This article is an English translation of the following Chinese article: Zhang, X. (2021). The Reform of Academic Evaluation Mechanism of College Teachers: Logic, Dilemma and Path——Based on the Perspective of Academic Community. University Education Science, (2), 62-70. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1672-0717.2021.02.08