A case study of generic competencies among science and technology tertiary graduates in Hong Kong

Author

So, Joseph C. H. ; Lam, S.Y. ; So, Y.L.

Author_Institution

Hong Kong Community Coll., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong, China

fYear

2013

fDate

26-29 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

477

Abstract

The present paper examines the correlation between academic discipline and the development of generic competencies among Hong Kong tertiary students in the “science and technology” (ST) & “non-science and technology” (NST) field. A total number of 758 ST and 1188 NST students had completed self-assessment questionnaires which were used to analyse the correlation between 14 generic competencies. The findings indicate that freshmen from selected academic disciplines possessed slight difference in generic skills. Such difference was further reduced when they graduated. In addition, the generic competencies among graduates in both disciplines had significant improvement after two-year associate degree studies.

Keywords

data analysis; educational administrative data processing; further education; Hong Kong; Science-and-Technology tertiary graduates; academic discipline; correlation analysis; data analysis; generic competencies; nonScience-and-Technology field; self-assessment questionnaires; two-year associate degree studies; Decision support systems; Innovation management; Lead; Psychology; Qualifications; Teamwork; Generic competencies; academic discipline; assocaite degree; college education; holistic development; science students;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bali

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TALE.2013.6654484

Filename

6654484