A Case Study of the Curriculum Assessment Reform: The Student-Led Group Discussion in Learning Business Economics

Abstract

With the advancement of the course reform process in colleges and universities, the needis urgent for new ways of course assessments to the traditional assessment models.The ways of course assessment have been gradually diversified, becoming multi-stagedto achieve different learning objectives.In order to better fit the current teaching climate with reducing assessment numbers and diversified course objectives, this paper studies the rationality of using group discussion as a meaningful component of the course assessment system. This research is based on the exploration of various course assessment methods that meet the applied talent training objectives, while using student-led group discussions as a medium-term classroom assessment to discuss and reflect on effects of the course assessments in learning business economics. We acknowledge that student-led group discussion is a kind of evaluation technique which is often used in the evaluation centre. This case study suggests to us that the use of this evaluation technique in the business economics curriculum assessment system can give rise to the betterment of students' comprehensive learning capability.