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Changing Education, Changing Practice

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Since 2008, teachers and researchers included of the higher education sector in Hong Kong have been advised if not “forced” to adopt the “outcome-based approach” (OBA) to guide the design of the curriculum and evaluate and assess the “quality” of their teaching, the ultimate concern of which is about “student learning”.

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Tang, Wy.R. (2021). Changing Education, Changing Practice. In: Transforming Education in Practice. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6871-5_2

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