Journal Articles
The capstone experience: Student and academic perspectives
- The capstone experience: Student and academic perspectives
- Higher Education Research & Development, 33(3), 580-594, 2014
- Routledge
- 2014
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Unknown or Unspecified
- A principal consideration in recent cross-sector educational reforms in Hong Kong is ensuring that undergraduate programmes prepare students for the future workplace, a factor that has made the capstone a central feature of the new four-year curriculum. This paper discusses a study that explored the final-year student experience based on a final-year project (FYP). Both recent graduate and final-year student feedbacks reveal some uncertainty and a lack of confidence over successful transition that graduates attribute to an overtly research focus in the current design of FYPs. Inviting comment from senior academics allows a fuller picture of the rationale behind, and administrative considerations in, conducting a capstone experience. This formative study highlights specific features in designing a capstone experience and the need for academic engagement in order to support the desired outcome of graduate employability. [Copyright of Higher Education Research & Development is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2013.841646]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 07294360
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/089d47fa
- 2014-12-19
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