第十一屆高等教育國際學術研討會
國際背景下的教與學質量保證

The 11th Higher Education International Conference on Teaching and learning Quality Assurance in International Contexts

2019/11/19-21

Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China

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STUDY ON STUDENTS’ PRACTICE ABILITY: CASE STUDY ON THE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOME OF MSW FIELD EDUCATION IN U.S.
Yahan Yang
Center for China and Globalization
Abstract

The goal of social work education was to help the students who have the ability and willingness to engage in social work practice become social workers. However, the social work graduates in China often change their careers immediately after graduation, resulting in the brain drain of the social work profession. One of the most important reasons was that students could not complete the transformation from theoretical learning to practical application. Given the author's two years' experiences at Columbia University in US, this research took the Master of Social Work (MSW) programs of Columbia University as an example and adopted case study method to analyze how professional knowledge, practice, and identity were developed in the process. At the same time, based on the theory of assessment of students’ learning outcomes (SLOs), this research also emphasized the assessment from the procedural and summative perspectives. The purpose of this study was to analyze the objectives, methodologies, outcomes, and characteristics of the development of practical ability in MSW programs, and to provide a reference for the quality assurance of the social work education in China.

Author Profile(s)
Yahan Yang, female, is the assistant researcher of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG). Yahan gained her master degree in Columbia Univeristy and her bachlor degree in Renmin University of China. She has accumulated practice and research methodologies by working at Columbia Population Research Center, the Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN) and China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, participated in "APQN Sustainable Development" and four other projects. She initiated a proposal about special education to the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Democratic League of China (minmeng) and led a team funded the Beijing Bureau of Education to study policy support for the elders who lost their only child in Hebei, China. Her current research interests include education quality, poverty alleviation, population policies, and Internationalization and Informatization in China.