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Aug

Assessment in Service- Learning: A Case of The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK)

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Prof. Christina Yu, Professor (Practice), Department of Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong

31 Aug 2020

2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

Abstract

In view of the wide range of learning outcomes that Service-Learning can nurture, many local universities have embedded Service-Learning as a key or a compulsory component in the undergraduate curriculum. In EdUHK, the Co-curricular and Service-Learning Course (CSLC) has been made compulsory in General Education since 2014 and further reframed as one of the key experiential learning components in General Education in 2019. Moreover, a new learning and assessment framework was developed for CSLC to enable students to go beyond the formal context of learning and transfer their knowledge in the unfamiliar situations to reflect, construct and develop their identity. In this seminar, the background, conceptual framework, components and assessment, setting of assessment rubrics and operational issues (piloting study) of CSLC at EdUHK will be shared for stimulating a more in-depth discussion on how to advance Service-Learning in local universities.

Professor Christina Yu Wai-mui is currently Professor (Practice) of Department of Social Sciences and Warden of the Grantham Hall at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). She co-led the undergraduate common core curriculum review and the internationalization of curriculum in her capacity of being the Associate Vice President (Student Learning) from 2017-2020. Her major teaching areas are pedagogical content knowledge and contemporary issues in business-related disciplines including entrepreneurship, personal finance, workforce competence and organizational performance management. Her teaching focuses on stimulating students’ active learning and knowledge transfer in the real context through the use of blended learning.


Professor Yu’s research and publication cover a wide range of areas including competence development, pedagogical strategies, business education, entrepreneurship education, personal finance education, gender in education, field experience and career education. She successfully led the projects on ‘Using E-Portfolio in Advancing Field Experience Learning’, ‘School-University-Reaching-Enterprises Partnership Project (SURE)’, ‘Development of the Hong Kong Financial Competency Framework 1.0 & 2.0’ and ‘Adapting the FoolProof Curriculum to Promote Personal Finance Education in the Hong Kong Community’. Currently, she is advocating a new consumer and financial education via an online learning platform, the ‘Facts and Figures Generation (FFG)’.

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.