Digital Dependence of Higher Education Evaluation: Challenges and Resolutions

The Digital dependence in this study is not a dependency on the Internet in traditional contexts. The digital dependence of higher education evaluation has the following manifestations: The widespread penetration of "digit" exists everywhere in higher education evaluation; “Digit” takes up the priority within the coordinate system of higher education evaluation; Irrational "digit" becomes disciplinary force by alienation in higher education evaluation. Its roots in the fact that it derives from the long-term restriction by the evaluation views on rationalism under the control of technological rationality, the promotion of simplifying perception of the higher education field, and the resource black hole and benefit inducement that "digit" can be manifested. Therefore, the key to eliminate the digital dependence in higher education evaluation and breaking the utilitarian thinking should include the following three aspects: returning the meaning of digital criterion in higher education evaluation to be genuine, clarifying the reasonable boundaries of the digital application in the evaluation of higher education, and optimizing the structure of the higher education evaluation system.