Dr. XU Hui Xuan is an Assistant Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Education University of Hong Kong. She has worked in the field of service-learning and researched into a few issues about teaching and learning in service-learning. For instance, adolescents’ identity formation through service-learning, emerging adults’ competence enhancement in service-learning, intercultural competence development in international service-learning, quality elements in service-learning programmes, etc.
09
Apr
Assessing and Grading Student Learning in Academic Service-Learning
Staff
Dr. XU Hui Xuan, Associate Head, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong
09 Apr 2020
2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Abstract
This seminar will discuss issues on assessment and grading student learning outcomes in the context of academic service-learning (ASL) courses and subjects,
• What outcomes are assessed and graded by course lecturers in academic service-learning courses? What are not assessed?
• What assessment methods and how many assessment tasks are appropriate to be used to assess student learning outcomes in ASL?
• How to use rubrics to grade students’ outcomes that represented in an essay/learning journals/portfolio?
• If I invite community partners to grade students’ performance/learning outcomes, how to confirm that the grades provided by the community side are reliable, valid, and consistent across the markers if more than one partners are involved?
• How to assign grades for individuals in a group project/presentation?
• What’s the role of feedback and reflection in the process of learning, teaching, and assessment in ASL?
• Is there any difference if we use Pass/Fail grade, Fail/Pass/Credit/Distinction grade, or a letter grade (e.g. A to F)?
Concepts on adjustments will be introduced in the seminar to facilitate the understanding and discussion of the above issues in academic service learning, such as notions of assessment (formative assessment and summative assessment, assessment of, for, and as learning), assessment principles (reliability and validity).
CoP-SLHE is one of the initiatives of an UGC-funded project, “Cross-institutional Capacity Building for Service-Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education Institutions (Project No.: PolyU4/T&L/16-19)” jointly organised by Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University, The Education University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Our goal is to facilitate sharing of experiences among SL practitioners and interested staff from all UGC-funded institutions and to promote collective learning and the scholarship of teaching and learning in Service-Learning.