Assessment in Professional Training in Higher Education : Social Work Field Education in Hong Kong

ISBN-13: 9783659282379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 236 str.

Chui Ernest Wing-tak

Opis

Educational assessment in social work practicum involves political, pedagogical and practical issues that pertain to the power interplay between the intensive one-to-one supervisor and student relationship, the concern about what constitutes valid knowledge and practical competence in professional social work practice, and the practicality of deriving valid and appropriate assessment criteria to evaluate the students practical competence. This book reports a study that served to identify a host of desirable and feasible evaluation criteria for assessing students practicum performance. There were discrepant views between the assessors (supervisors) and the assessed (students) in assessing the desirability and feasibility of the evaluation criteria. Such discrepancy stemmed from their differences in views, values and power positions in the field practicum context. This book should inspire social work educators and students alike on the processes of teaching and learning, professional development and practice in social work.

O autorze

Ernest Chui, PhD, EdD (Bristol), Associate Professor and Director of Field Instruction of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of The University of Hong Kong. He has served as editorial board member or reviewer for the Social Work Education, British Journal of Social Work, Journal of Social Work.