What Is Excellence: The Impact of Evaluation System on Emerging Scholar's Research Behavior

This article presents the impact of evaluation system on the scientific research path selections for the young teachers in universities through educational narrative, examines the alienation of utilitarianism of evaluation system on the scientific research path selections for young teachers. Under the evaluation mechanism of pursuing "excellence", the research path for young university teachers has evolved into a strategy game of maximizing effectiveness. The evaluation system of scientific research for young teachers in universities, consisting of quantitative assessment, has made young teachers actively choose or passively become the "academic machine" alienated by data, resulting in "one-dimensional individuals". The discourse construction of "excellence" in the growth process of young teachers has led to the crisis of "existence" of young teachers in universities due to the evaluation discourse of increasing academic GDP, technicism, and digitization.