Addressing Graduate Capability through Action Research: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective in a New Zealand Context

Autor/in	Zhang, Qilong
Titel	Addressing Graduate Capability through Action Research: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective in a New Zealand Context
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 48 (2021) 3, S.507-523 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zhang, Qilong)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
DOI	10.1007/s13384-020-00407-7
Schlagwörter	College Graduates; Outcomes of Education; Student Evaluation; Action Research; Foreign Countries; Intervention; Intellectual Disciplines; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Projektforschung; Ausland; Geisteswissenschaften; Neuseeland
Abstract	The concept "graduate capability" has been created to respond to the trend that tertiary education graduates routinely encounter uncertainty and complexity. Adopting a multiple-site action research design, this study explored ways to address graduate capability across five disciplines in a New Zealand vocational education institution. Participants were 215 students and 21 teaching staff. Data collection included interviews, team meetings, and a variety of pedagogical documentation. Ethnographic content analysis was used for data analysis which generated five discipline-specific approaches to graduate capability intervention. Each approach included five dimensions: selection of focus capability items (FCIs) for intervention, composition of FCIs, strategies to address FCIs, impact of the intervention, and relationship between the intervention and the academic programme. This study not only helps the sampled programmes address graduate capability in an intentional and systematic way, but also offers an operational framework for designing capability intervention programmes in similar settings. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01