Rubric and Uncertainty be my Guide: Fostering Better Thinking with Students’ Self-Evaluation and Self-Questioning in the Classroom
Rubric and Uncertainty be my Guide: Fostering Better Thinking with Students’ Self-Evaluation and Self-Questioning in the Classroom
Speaker:
Dr GAO Xin (General Education Foundation Programme)
Dr WU Jun (General Education Foundation Programme)
Dr YEUNG Yang (General Education Foundation Programme)
Date: 4 December 2017 (Monday)
Language: Cantonese
In a qualitative-assessment project conducted by the Narrative Qualitative Assessment (NQA) research team formed by several teachers of General Education Foundation Programme (GEF), the Wolcott-Lynch model on “Steps for Better Thinking” was applied to study students’ performance in addressing open-ended problems. Participating teachers have been inspired to use the model in the classroom as a device for students’ self-perception and self-evaluation.
In this seminar, Dr GAO Xin and Dr WU Jun will report on the preliminary findings of their research on students’ self-evaluation of their cognitive complexity at the beginning and at the end of a GEF course. Comparison of the students’ self-evaluation will be made with teachers’ analyses, which has so far generated useful clues as to how teachers could improve on their teaching.
Dr YEUNG Yang will focus on the topic of ‘identifying uncertainty’ as a component of cognitive complexity. She proposes that the ability to identify uncertainty could be demonstrated in students’ self-questioning. With examples of questions students ask about ideas in the course content, she proposes how the questions could be classified, and reports on the action she has taken in response.
Speaker’s Bio
Dr GAO Xin, Dr WU Jun and Dr YEUNG Yang are Lecturers of the General Education Foundation Programme (GEF) in the Office of University General Education. They are the core members of the Narrative Qualitative Assessment (NQA) research team. They are dedicated to adopt Wolcott-Lynch’s model on NQA to access students’ cognitive complexity. The NQA model is famous on the qualitative analysis of the learning outcomes of the students from a narrative perspective.
