Dr. Will Ng (a joint event with OUGE)
Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Detail:
Are your students behaving? For a conscientious teacher, this can be a very difficult question. If students are not coming to class, or not working hard, they may or may not be misbehaving, as it may be their deliberate conscious choice as they choose to invest their time on more worthwhile feats. When a student procrastinates, it may be his own lack of discipline, or he himself may be victim of other students' misbehaviors. When free-riding happens in a group project, it may be due to a free-rider's shirking, a dysfunctional group, or there may be unintended perverse incentives in the way the coursework is administered.
This is the first of a seminar series on strategic learning behaviors jointly organized by the Office of University General Education and the Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research, focusing on group work issues. The speaker will present reported views and experiences collected from students from Jan to August 2015, including premiere of a video recording of a student debate on the relative merits of peer evaluation held in October 2015. Participants will be invited to discuss the influence of peer evaluation to students’ strategic behaviors in group work in the second half of the seminar.
