Hi, everyone!
Welcome to APQN 7th on-line forum!
Glad to meet you all in the sky!
This is Prof. Dr. Jianxin Zhang (President of APQN), the facilitator of the 2nd Session(August 11-16): Capacity Building of Reviewer Professionalism.
Following the first session chaired by Prof. Angela Yung Chi Hou, here we begin our discussion and sharing.
Looking through the first session, we found some participants actively shared your opinions with us, but still some kept silent. Hope in this session, more participants will come to discuss and share.
Below is the plan for this session:
Day One (Aug. 11) : Warm-up questions
- What is the most important capacity for Reviewer professionalism?
- What is the process of selection reviewer in your local context/your country/your QAA?
- What is the best method to train a reviewer in your local context/your country/your QAA?
- As a reviewer, what do you think of your SWOT Analysis: your strength; weakness; opportunity and threat)
Requirement: The participants may choose one of the questions to share your experience in a 500-word article, the excellent article will be selected to publish in APQNews (Issue 18).
Day Two (Aug 12): Introduce on the 5 reading materials
- Securing Assessors Professionalism
- Components of good assessor training
- Evaluating the Evaluator (Dowell_et_al-2006)
- Reframing the Position of the Evaluator(Gattenhof2017)
- Multiplicity of Roles of the Internal Evaluator( Volkov-2011)
Requirement: The participants will share 1-3 points, ideas, thoughts or impressions from the above 5 articles.
Day Three (Aug. 13): Discussion on important capacity for Reviewer professionalism
Requirement: The participants will introduce his/her own experience, to share his/her own experiences freely. If possible, submit the 500-word article on this topic.
Day Four (Aug. 14): Discussion on selection reviewer in your local context/your country/your QAA
Requirement: The participants will introduce his/her own experience, to share his/her own experiences freely. If possible, submit the 500-word article on this topic.
Day Five(Aug. 15): Discussion on best method to train a reviewer in your local context/your country/your QAA
Requirement: The participants will introduce his/her own experience, to share his/her own experiences freely. If possible, submit the 500-word article on this topic.
Day Six(Aug 16): Summary
Requirement: The participants will submit a 500-word article on the following topics:
- The Most Important Capacity for my Reviewer Professionalism
- The Process of Selection Reviewer in my QAA/country
- The Best Method to Train A Reviewer in my QAA/country
- My SWOT Analysis Report on a Reviewer (Take you yourself or yourselves as a reviewer and analyze your strength; weakness; opportunity and threat)
The excellent article will be selected to publish in APQNews (Issue 18).
Enjoy the time in Sky!
Best regards
Jianxin Zhang
August 11, 2018