Enhancing Reflective Thinking in Big Classes

Project Title

Enhancing Reflective Thinking in Big Classes

Project Leader

Prof Mike So

School / Dept

SBM / ISMT

Project Duration

Mar 2004 - Jun 2005

Project Description

Educators adopt various approaches to facilitate reflective thinking. However, it is not easy to teach the skill in a big class due to diverse student abilities. It is also very challenging to train thinking skills and foster a deep learning approach in a conventional teaching context. This project aroused students’ awareness of their learning progress, cultivated analytic and critical thinking, and opened them to different perspectives by recording the learning progress, adopting a problem-solving section within tutorials and asking practical questions without a model answer in lecture.

Project Outcome

• With the aim of keeping track of students’ learning progress, students were asked to fill in review forms every week. Totally, 12 sets of review forms were distributed.

• Two Problem Based Learning Sections were conducted in tutorial classes in Fall 2004. Each group had to give a short presentation (4 minutes) in their tutorial classes and submit a one-page brief report on an assigned case which was selected from journals, books or newspapers about the use of Statistics.

• Some practical questions without definite solution were asked in lectures. Students had time to discuss with their peers before our comments on the questions.

Status

Completed

Project Documents
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• Project Plan
• Progress Report
• Final Report

Adaptation

Full Project