Research Assessment Exercise 2006

1. Research Assessment Exercise 2006 University Grants Committee

2. Opening Remarks by Prof Roland Chin Convenor, Research Ad Hoc Group (RAG) University Grants Committee

3. Opportunitiesfor Scholarship University Grants Committee Research Assessment Exercise January 23rd & 24th 2006

4. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Lee Shulman, President Richard Gale, Senior Scholar & CASTL Director Stephanie Waldmann, Foundation Secretary Chun-Mei Zhao, Research Scholar Dan Bernstein, University of Kansas

5. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching “To do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education” - from The Carnegie Foundation Mission Statement

6. The Work of the Scholar The work of the scholar remains incomplete until it is understood and used by others.

7. Scholarship Reconsidered (1990) • “Is it possible to define the work of faculty in ways that reflect more realistically the full range of academic and civic mandates?” • “… the work of the professoriate might be thought of as having four separate, yet overlapping, functions” • Discovery • Integration • Application • Teaching

8. The Four Scholarships: Discovery • Scholarship that makes a commitment to knowledge for its own sake, to freedom of inquiry and to following in a disciplined fashion an investigation wherever it may lead … • Comes closest to what is usually meant when we speak of “research”

9. The Four Scholarships: Discovery • Science • Mathematics

10. The Four Scholarships: Integration • Scholarship that makes connections across the disciplines, in a larger context, at the boundaries where fields converge … that seeks to interpret, draw together, and bring new insight to bear on original research … • Interdisciplinary, interpretive, integrative

11. The Four Scholarships: Integration • Humanities • Professional

12. The Four Scholarships: Application • Scholarship that serves the interest of the larger community by addressing consequential problems … bringing knowledge to bear on the issues faced by members of the society • The community’s issues themselves define the agenda for scholarly investigation

13. The Four Scholarships: Application • Education • Science

14. The Four Scholarships: Teaching • Scholarship using disciplinary methods and practice to study and improve student learning … building on, peer reviewing, and sharing knowledge gained through investigation to improve teaching and learning • Not only transmitting knowledge, but transforming and extending it as well

15. The Four Scholarships: Teaching • Science • Humanities • Professional

16. The Advancement of Learning Integration Discovery The University Application Teaching

17. Scholarship Assessed (1997) • All forms of scholarship include: • Clear goals • Adequate preparation • Appropriate methods • Significant results • Reflective critique • Effective presentation Glassick, Huber, & Maeroff

18. Levels of Scholarly Performance Components of Scholarly Work Framework for Scholarly Accomplishment

21. Establishing Excellence • Qualities of Surprise and Delight • Transparency of Argument and Evidence • Commitment to Rigor and Peer Review • Communication and Dissemination of Standards and Examples

22. Acknowledgements • Prof. Roland Chin, Mr. Michael Stone, and The University Grants Committee • Hong Kong Institutions of Higher Education • Research Assessment Exercise Participants

23. Opportunities for Questions