Teaching Quality Assurance

The quality assurance system of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has changed over time - from subject knowledge as central focus of a university curriculum to an outcomes-based approach (OBA) in teaching and learning. CUHK aspires to produce graduates who have depth in a specialty, breadth in general knowledge, bilingual proficiency, a basket of learning skills, and personal attributes including honesty and integrity. It is against this background that the Science Faculty has produced the fourth edition of the Staff Handbook on Teaching Quality Assurance. The Handbook consists of 15 chapters, describing various positive measures to ensure the delivery of excellence.

Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/TQA/

Outcomes-based Approach

Revised OBA Roadmap (31 October 2008)
Click here to download the revised OBA Roadmap

DRAFT OBA Roadmap (May 2008)
Click here to download the draft OBA Roadmap

The fundamental concepts of the Outcomes-Based Approach (OBA) have long been entrenched in the teaching practices in the Faculty, and all programmes have initiated their efforts to take ownership in adopting OBA in a more explicit manner. A faculty-wide project “Promoting the Use of the Outcomes-based Approach in Science Programmes: Development of Learning Outcome Statements and Measurement Instruments” that involves a series of promotion and dissemination activities is undergoing.

Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/OBA/

e-Learning

The Teaching Development Grant (TDG) Project “Using Clickers to Enhance Teaching and Learning: Pilot Case Studies in Science Programmes” was launched in December 2008.   A group of motivated teachers of the Faculty have taken the initiatives to spearhead the use of this student response system in their courses.

Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/clicker

Engaging Science Students in the Design & Enactment of Assessment

The Teaching Development Grant (TDG) project “Engaging Science Students in the Design & Enactment of Assessment” promotes the use of assessment as a learning activity, which in turn fosters the development of learning outcomes.  It encourages students’ participation and interaction by involving students in the design and enactment of assessment. 

Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/TDG/

Events

July 2009

Seminar: The Use of Clickers in Science Teaching

The workshop aims to promote and foster the use of clickers and other e-learning tools to enhance teaching. Teachers, particularly those who had used clickers, reflected on their experiences during the workshop.

Click here to download the poster in PDF format

April 2008

An overview on Teaching and Learning Activities and Quality Assurance

Click here to download the powerpoint

November 2007

Seminar : Good Practices on Teaching and Learning in Science Programme

Nine speakers made presentations to disseminate teaching development grant project results and to share good practice on teaching and learning in their department/school.

October 2007

Expo: Excellence Online

Seven science teaching development projects presented posters in the "e-Learning EXPO: Excellence Online" that was organized by the Information Technology Services Centre (ITSC) and CLEAR. The posters were then displayed in the Science Faculty for one week.

More details of the event is located at: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/eLearning/expo/

January 2007

Workshop

A workshop was organized to share experiences on Programme Review and good practices that were developed by various programmes in teaching and learning.

October 2006

Workshop

A workshop was organized to share experience on engaging students in the design and enactment of assessment.

November 2005

Seminar

A seminar was organized to disseminate innovative assessment approaches, and to formulate strategies to make use of assessment as learning activity in teaching and learning science.

March 2005

Seminar

A seminar was organized to further disseminate the "Integrated Framework on Programme Development and Review", and to share views on teaching and learning.

Useful Links

http://www.cwsei.ubc.ca/
The “Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative” at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is led by Professor Carl Edwin Wieman who is an American physicist and a respectable Nobel Prize laureate in Physics. Professor Wieman has a passionate interest in enhancing science education and has attained reputable achievement worldwide.

http://bokcenter.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard

http://ctl.stanford.edu/
The Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford

http://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/qac/index.htm
The Quality Assurance Council (QAC) was established in 2007 under the aegis of the University Grants Committee (UGC) in 2007.

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/english/teaching/teaching-quality.html
CUHK’s website on Teaching and Learning

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/clear/
Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research at CUHK