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Part A. Background Information
For questions in Part A, please indicate your answer with a tick in the most appropriate box.

1. Which position do you belong to?

	Head of Department
	Professor
	Lecturer
	Instructor
	Others (please specify)

2. How many years have you been teaching in higher education?

	1-5
	6-10
	11 or above

Part B. Current Assessment Practices
For questions in Part B, please indiciate your answer with a tick with reference to the subjects you previously taught and assessed in the last three years at the University.

3. Please indicate the THREE most common assessment methods that you use in assessing students.

	Open-book exam (duration: hrs)	Self-assessment
	Closed-book exam (duration: hrs)	Seminar presentation
	Written test (duration: hrs)	Laboratory report
	Group assignment / project / report	Practical test
	Individual assignment / project	Clinical / Industrial test
	Portfolio	Attendance at lecture/laboratory/ tutorial
	Peer-assessment	Contribution at tutorial
	Others (please specify)

4. Please indicate the THREE main reasons for designing on particular assessment methods to be used.

	According to Faculty / Department policy
	According to the Programme Document
	According to the subject objective(s)
	To follow previous practice
	According to the requirement the professional bodies
	Others (Please specify)

5. Please select in priority from 1st to 3rd (ie. 1 = first priority, 2 = second priority, 3 = third priority), what you conside the THREE most important reasons for assessing students.

	To determine if students have met the subject objective(s)
	To provide feedback to students on their learning / progress
	To provide feedback for improvement of future teaching / assessment
	To rank students	To grade student's performance
	To motivate students to study	To satisfy professional requirement
	To maintain professional standards	To fulfill my duty as a teacher
	Others (Please specify)

6. Please indiciate the major problem(s) encountered when implementing assessment practices. (you can select more than one answer)

	The problem that students do not understand the questions.
	Difficulty in understanding what students are trying to say when answering the questions
	Difficulty in providing a fair grade to a student's work
	Difficulty in grading examinations of large class sizes
	Difficulty in assessing students' participation in large classes
	Difficulty in providing detailed feedback to large classes of students
	Difficulty in providing timely feedback to students
	Difficulty in meeting administration deadlines
	Other (Please specify)

Please rate according to the following scale. Strongly Disagree (SD) Disagree (D) Neutral (N) Agree (A) Strongly Agree (SA)

	SD	D	N	A	SA
7. You are satisfied with the method(s) you use for assessment.
8. The subject objectives are aligned when developing the assessment tasks.

Part C. Personal Information

For the purpose of data analysis, please provide us with some personal information. All information given will be kept confidential.

9.	Your subject:
10.	Your country/region:
11.	Your institution:

This project, funded by University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, is an inter-institutuional collaborative project involving the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Hong Kong.