Insights from EDUR 7066

a) Rationale behind choosing only one institute as a case study - perhaps it's

Survey Pre-launch focus group

Date: 27 Aug 2012 Time: 11.00 - 11.45 Venue: NAB 115 Present: 11 persons Shane, Josephine, Alex, Ruby, Mandy, Cookie, Caitlin, Tessie, Ting, Charlotte, Kathie Moderator: Paul 1. too long and too wordy 2. comprehensive 3. multiple choices - user friendly 4. comprehensive Suggestions: - better categorization, e.g. "Personal Information" - layout too congested (white and orange color in sequential order) - consolidate similar questions - tuition payment, using % instead of "major/minor/not a source"

9th Meeting with Supervisor

Date Aug 1, 2012 Time 15.00 - 17.30 Venue: Rm 422, Runme Shaw Bldg, HKU Key points - Add lead in on the first page of the questionnaire, e.g. Dear Students, The purpose of this survey is to .... - Have I made any hypotheses before putting down the questions? - Suggest to adapt, not add something new, e.g. instead of asking the nationality, I should ask for native language used, ie. Cantonese vs. Putonghua, thus affecting students' intention in involving in both in-class and off-class activities Pattern of Lit Review: 1. Background on CC in HK; 2. Survey instruments, including NSSE, CCSSE, Tsinghua/ NSSE-CHINA, AUSSE; 3. How CCSSE adapted from NSSE; 4. How HKCCSSE adapted from CCSSE; 5. What's the difference in HK context? 6. Reasons behind all the adaptations/ explain all the modifications Success criteria: 1. good and solid data set 2. determine if expand the data set and its scale or not. Actions: 1. Final questionnaire for approval 2. Contact Wincy or any SPSS guru for data analysis 3. Contact Lawrence Chan for Uni of S California EdD candidate's thesis.