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Project No.: | 6000333 |
Title: | Quality of Research Degree Education/Training at the City University of Hong Kong: An Outcome-based Study |
Department: | Department of Applied Social Studies (SS) |
Principal Investigator: | Ng, Sik Hung |
Co-investigator: | Dr.Wu, Joseph Keung-fai (SS) External Investigators: Dr. Platow, Michael J (The Australian National University, Australia ) |
Issue Date: | 9-May-2014 |
Commencement Date: | 1-Dec-2010 |
Completion Date: | 31-Jul-2012 |
Abstract: | International research has identified three broad outcomes of research degree education. Disciplinary knowledge/productivity and employability are specific outcomes such as duration of study, publications, time between thesis submission and employment, and salary. "Graduate attributes" are generic qualities that are largely discipline-independent, e.g., critical and analytical thinking, problem solving, initiative, communication, leadership and team-work (Cumming, 2010; Gilbert et al., 2004; Manathunga et al., 2009). Graduate attributes, though elusive, are important: "if universities do not promote the development of these attributes, they need only to (indeed, ought only to) provide vocational education rather than traditional liberal arts or theory-based degrees." (Platow, in press, ms. page 3). All three outcomes are compatible in varying degrees with CityU's OBTL (outcome-based teaching and learning) policy and UGC's criteria for evaluating the quality of research degree education/training. No CityU study has been conducted to evaluate the outcomes. Archival data, though scattered and incomplete, are available to afford a meaningful first study. The present proposal will collate existing data on outcomes and contributing factors (CFs) (e.g., students' academic background, English proficiency, gender, full-time/part-time study, local vs. nonlocal status, tuition scholarship, perceived supervisor support, conference attendance, and integration with the host Department). Models will be fitted to estimate CFs' effects on disciplinary knowledge/productivity and graduate attributes, test the extent to which graduate attributes may mediate CFs' effects on disciplinary knowledge/productivity, and identify the best predictors of employability from the pool of disciplinary outcomes and CFs." |
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