HKUST Business School QA Framework

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SBM’s Quality Assurance framework underpins the business school’s commitment to academic excellence. It exists to support the continual improvement of educational experience of the students at local and global level. This framework was designed to provide a robust and coordinated approach to quality assurance.

\ QA Framework of the Business School emphasis a commitment to comprehensive, open and inclusive processes that are effective, fully aligned with the schools mission and also maintains academic standards.

\ Business School’s enhancement towards Quality Assurance by organizing “QA Committee” to foresee the delivery of the quality in its educational programs.\ \ • Chairman and members of the QA committee were appointed by the Dean.\ \ Membership\ Chairman:\ Prof. Garvin Percy DIAS (Director, Center for Business Education)\ Members:\ Prof. Tat Koon KOH (Associate Dean, Undergraduate studies)\ Prof. Xinyu HUA (Academic Director, Kellogg-HKUST EMBA)\ Prof. Yuk Fai FONG (Academic Director, HKUST EMBA)\ Prof. Ralf van der LANS (Director, MPhil/PhD Programs)\ Prof. Stephen SHIH (Associate Dean, MBA Programs)\ Mr. Chris TSANG (Assistant Dean (Administration) & MSc Program Director)\ Ms. Helen CHEN (Head, External and Alumni Relations)\ One representative from each department (program coordinator from UG or MSc or MBA or PhD)\ \ • QA committee established Triggered Review Mechanism, which activates when instructor's timely feedback/overall course mean/overall instructor mean/ evaluation is less than 3.2 (new generic SFQ score 1-5 implemented since Fall 2020).\ \ • Each Undergraduate and Postgraduate program developed course Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs), Learning Objectives and corresponding Assessment Rubrics for measuring the ILOs.

• Measurement of Learning goals are carried out with the help of “Assessment Rubrics” and data collected via online “AOL” reporting system.\ \ • Assessment Plan for periodic cycle (2 years) was developed to showcase the required courses to measure the learning goals and objectives. The closing the loop assessment exercise has been started for all the levels of UG and PG programs.

\ The HKUST Business School assures that the quality procedures are applied systematically to all the departments and other units thereby enabling the business school to achieve its excellence in quality teaching and learning.