Struggles with- and solutions for- assesment in innovative education
Language: ENG
Society is changing rapidly. The university helps students to be part of this change by offering an innovative educational environment wherein students’ learning processes are central. In such an environment, students are challenged to develop generic skills. Furthermore, courses are offered that monitor student’s development, and interact directly with external partners. In this way students graduating from university become self-directed, engaged in life-long-learning, and have developed skills that are necessary to be change agents in working life.
This raises the question: have we adequately adapted our assessment practices for these courses? Teachers are struggling whether they assess what they want to assess: ‘How do I know that my students developed general skills?’, ‘How can I monitor the student’s longitudinal development?’, ‘How do I measure the impact that students have made?’
In this workshop you are invited to express your assessment struggles concerning courses where stude
