Establishing an Evaluation System for Interdisciplinary Graduate Students Based on Improved AHP

Abstract

With the increase in the total number of postgraduates, improving the quality of postgraduates has become the main task of the current higher education reform. Major universities and related departments have begun to attach importance to the construction of interdisciplinary subjects. Promoting vigorously the cultivation of interdisciplinary talents has become a new driving force for postgraduate education reform. This article first establishes corresponding evaluation indicators and proposes the APCE indicator system from five aspects: curriculum, teaching resources, research results, graduate students' ability and mentor team. APCE first adopts the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to calculate the weight value of each evaluation index system. Then use the two-level fuzzy comprehensive operation to obtain the final evaluation grade, according to the principle of maximum membership degree of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. The empirical test on the cross-disciplinary "Cultural Resources and Cultural Industry" conducted by the National Cultural Industry Research Center of Central China Normal University shows that the APCE indicator effectively analyzes data from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives, thereby providing a valuable evaluation for each cross-disciplinary reference.