CRESDA: towards a personalized student advisory for professional development

ABSTRACT

Student participation in extracurricular activities has been proven to be as an important element in personal development and become an indicator of their competencies in relation to their future career success. However, participation in extracurricular activities is not systematically recorded and is difficult to be used for planning and reflection. Therefore, a repository was developed to record student participation in extracurricular activities. Activity organizers can define the attributes (codified competencies) based on the learning objectives, learning activities and expected learning outcomes; and can link these attributes to the corresponding extracurricular activity. We performed two case studies. One showed that different sets of competencies are needed by students in different disciplines, while the other demonstrated the correlation between extracurricular activities participation and academic performance within a discipline. Riding on these findings, we proposed an approach towards personalized student advisory on professional development.

KEYWORDS:

• Student advising
• outcome-based learning
• extracurricular activity
• personal development
• competency

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Yan Keung Hui

Yan Keung Hui is a graduate student at the Department of Computer Science, the City University of Hong Kong pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy degree. He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and his master degree in Master of Business Administration from the Hong Kong Baptist University. His primary research interests lie in educational technology and academic and learning analytics.

Lam For Kwok

Lam For Kwok received his PhD in Information Security from the Queensland University of Technology. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Executive Director of CUBIC (CityU Business and Industrial Club) at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include information security and management, intrusion detection systems, and computers in education. Dr. Kwok has extensive teaching and academic planning experience. He actively serves the academic and professional communities and has been acting as programme chairs and organizing chairs of international conferences, assessors and panel judges of various awards.

Horace H. S. Ip

Professor Horace H. S. Ip is the Vice-President in Student Affairs and a Chair Professor of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. He has a BSc in Applied Physics and PhD in Image Processing from University College, London, United Kingdom. His research interests include multimedia content analysis and retrieval, and virtual reality for education. Professor Ip’s research has won many awards including Prix Ars Electronica, and a Gold Medal of the Geneva Salon International Des Inventions. He has published over 300 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Professor Ip is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), a Fellow of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).