Problems and Reflections: An Investigation on College Students' Innovation Ability
Decheng Zhang *
College of Artificial Intelligence, Yancheng Normal University, China.
Jinxin Chen
College of Artificial Intelligence, Yancheng Normal University, China.
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Abstract
As the backbone of the future society, the cultivation and improvement of College Students' innovation ability is very important for the sustainable development of the country. There are 524 valid questionnaires were collected with reference reliability of 0.97. The content of the questionnaire involves innovation awareness, innovation knowledge, innovation skills, innovation practice, innovation environment and so on. The results of the survey were compared with the samples of science and engineering. The results show that college students have high innovation awareness but low innovation action, low attention to scientific and technological trends and the market, insufficient innovation knowledge and interdisciplinary knowledge, low mastery of innovation skills, and lack of motivation for innovation practice. The chi square test method is used to test the differences between the typical problems of all samples and science and engineering samples. The results show that there are significant differences in the attention of the latest scientific and technological trends and innovation trends. It also puts forward some thoughts on the cultivation of College Students' innovative ability, including establishing the correct concept of innovative education, creating a good atmosphere for innovative education, improving teachers' innovative guidance ability, constructing interdisciplinary innovative practice space, and improving the system to stimulate students' innovative power etc.
Keywords: College students, innovation ability, investigation and analysis, problem thinking, proposal