Recent decades have witnessed an international movement towards curriculum transformation and renewal in higher education, such as the UK Dearing Report in the mid-1990s and the Nelson Reforms in Australia in 2003. Hong Kong's higher education system is no exception. In the current climate, these transformations include the need to raise the quality of undergraduate education to meet the demands of a knowledge-based economy. These transformations are not just within the discipline-knowledge, but also in the graduate attributes that students must possess to cope in this highly-evolving society. These graduate attributes (also known as generic skills/transferable skills/key-skills/soft-skills) are of growing concern to employers, government, students and teachers, and they are high on the agenda in the new Hong Kong 3+3+4 curriculum (EMB, 2005). With these transformations in mind, diverse forms of learning and teaching activities have been trying out to target both the discipline-knowledge and the graduate attributes in a more active way of learning. One of these learning and teaching activities is experiential learning. The study is conducted on the experiential learning project by a group of university students and teachers from an university in Hong Kong. They participated in a post-earthquake reconstruction project at Sichuan, China. It documents the different assessment methods used in the course of this project. This will be the foundation work to deduce an assessment framework for a multidisciplinary community service learning project. Our discussion mainly focuses on the types of experiential learning such as community service learning and cooperative education placements which includes an outside organization in order to narrow the scope. The importance of assessment in higher education, the benefits and shortfalls of assessing students in higher education will also briefly included. This research literature can help us to further our understanding on how to develop and to better improve the curriculum so as to enhance the learning experiences in graduate attributes for Hong Kong undergraduates through community service experiential learning. It will make tremendous contributions to all knowledge-based societies.
