Dr. Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan

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Innovative Curricula Design Conference Higher
Education in 2020
Developing Student Learning Quality Assurance or
Quality Enhancement

• Dr. Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan
• Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and
  Learning (CETL)
• University of Hong Kong

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• Developing Student Learning

QUALITY
Quality Assurance
Quality Enhancement
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University of Hong Kong World Rankings

• 2013 2014 (No. 43)
• 2008 2009 (No. 18)
• 2013 2014 (No. 26)

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• Curriculum Reform

National Level Institutional Level Faculty
Level Course Level Accreditation Body Level
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Other Curriculum Reforms

• The Bologna Process
• The Melbourne Model
• The Harvards Task Force on Education
• University of Aberdeens Curriculum Reform
• Engineering Criteria 2000
• 334 Hong Kong Curriculum Reform

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Curriculum Reform

• Educational system
• Programme structures
• Programme objectives
• Changes in approaches to teaching
• Changes in approaches to learning
• Changes in student learning outcomes

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334 Curriculum Reform in HK
The differences between the current and the new
academic structure are shown below.
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CR in Hong Kong Higher Education

• UGC Requirement Our funding body asked of us
• Adopted Outcomes Based Approach to Student
  Learning (OBASL)
• All our degrees are to have 1 additional year
• To develop whole person and all-rounded education
  in the higher education reform

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• Outcomes Based Approach to Student Learning -
  OBASL

Aims and Learning Outcomes What do you want your
students to learn?
Teaching and Learning Activities What types of
activities will help your students to learn?
Assessment Methods How will you know your
students have learned?
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Generic Skills Are Vital Today

• Generic employability skills are important
  because jobs today require flexibility,
  initiative and the ability to undertake many
  different tasks.
• Evidenced in
• The Dearing Report in the UK (1997), the Council
  of the European Union (2001),
• The Australian Council for Educational Research
  (2001)
• Hong Kong University Grants Committee (2005)

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Generic Skills

• Problem solving
• Creativity
• Leadership
• Project management
• Communication
• Writing
• Brainstorming
• Team working

• Computer Literacy
• Ethical
• Language
• Professional
• Positive Attitude
• Common Sense
• Adaptability
• Lifelong Learning etc

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HKU University Aims

• To enable our students to develop the
  capabilities in
• Pursuit of academic/professional excellence,
  critical intellectual inquiry and life-long
  learning
• Tackling novel situations and ill-defined
  problems
• Critical self-reflection and greater
  understanding of others, upholding personal and
  professional ethics
• Intercultural understanding and global
  citizenship
• Communication and collaboration
• Leadership and advocacy for the improvement of
  the human condition

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• And how are we going to show the development and
  assessment?
• The Whole person Development
• Such as Transferable Skills,
• Professional Skills,
• Global Competence,
• Graduate Attributes,
• Soft Skills,
• Employability Skills,
• How?

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Challenges of Assessing Graduate Attributes

• A considerable amount of generic skills
  assessment, therefore, is going unreported in
  those instances where those skills are being
  inferred but not recorded, reported or certified
  
• (Clayton et al, 2003)

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Quality Assurance Audit

• First Audit (2007 - 11) focused
• on the operation of quality systems at the level
  of the subject and included the assessment of a
  range of sample programmes
• Second Audit (2014 - 16) focuses
• enhancing the student learning experience
  particularly on student achievement and global
  engagements

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Second Audit

• The focus in the second round is on how well
  these systems are operating and particularly on
  the impact of quality assurance on the
  achievements of students. This represents a shift
  in emphasis from the scrutiny of process to the
  assessment of outcomes and is in line with the
  development of an outcomes based approach to
  education more generally across the sector.
• Student achievement may be assessed both in terms
  of academic performance and in terms of personal
  and professional development, reflected in
  graduate skills and capabilities.
• Quality Assurance Council, Audit Manual, 2014

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We need to provide ..
Direct Evidence of Student Learning
Indirect Evidence of Student Learning
Triangulation
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Is this what we called Quality Assurance?
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Video

• If you only spend time focusing on how to pass
  and implement the
• Quality Assurance for Student Learning,
• You will miss some of the missing links, the
  focus should really be on the
• Quality Enhancement of Student Learning

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Thank You

• Thank you for your participation!!!
• If you wish to contact me for further information
• Email Cecilia.Chan_at_cetl.hku.hk
• Phone [phone]