Qualitative evaluation of a credit-bearing leadership subject in Hong Kong

A subject entitled "Tomorrow's Leaders" aiming at promoting the holistic development of university students was offered to students at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Towards the end of the term, students were invited to give descriptors and metaphors about the subject. Based on...

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Published inInternational journal of child health and human development Vol. 9; no. 2; p. 173
Main Authors Shek, Daniel TL, Fok, Hung-Kit, Leung, Charles TL, Li, Pecky PK
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hauppauge Nova Science Publishers, Inc 01.04.2016
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Education
Educational evaluation
Focus groups
Leadership
Metaphor
Methods
Researchers
Students
Studies
Hong Kong China
China
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Summary:A subject entitled "Tomorrow's Leaders" aiming at promoting the holistic development of university students was offered to students at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Towards the end of the term, students were invited to give descriptors and metaphors about the subject. Based on the written narratives of 1,029 students, it was observed that most students used positive descriptors to describe the subject. Concerning the metaphors that could stand for the subject, most of the metaphors are positive in nature. Reliability analyses based on randomly selected coded responses showed that intra- and inter-rater reliabilities were high. In conjunction with other evaluation findings, the present study suggests that this subject was able to promote the holistic development in Chinese university students in Hong Kong.
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ISSN:1939-5965
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