Today’s university lecturers are faced with the challenge of educating students to see beyond the limits of their own discipline and to come up with innovative solutions to societal challenges. Many lecturers would like to put more emphasis on teaching students how to integrate diverse forms of knowledge, work together in teams, critically reflect and become self-regulated learners. These lecturers are breaking down the silos of scientific disciplines as well as the barriers between academia and society and responding to the changing role of universities in society.
Just as teaching and learning are ready for change, so is assessment. In this book, we call for an assessment strategy with a greater emphasis on assessment for and assessment as learning, with a focus on giving powerful feedback and the use of authentic assessment tasks as well as alignment with the intended learning outcomes and your pedagogical beliefs.
If you are looking for ways to assess integration, collaboration, reflection, and critical thinking rather than only assessing the acquisition of knowledge, the examples in this handbook are inspiring initiatives that can point you to new directions in assessment.
Author(s): Ilja Boor, Debby Gerritsen, Linda de Greef, Jessica Rodermans
Series: Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity, 7
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 160
City: Amsterdam
Meaningful
Assessment in Interdisciplinary Education
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Meaningful assessment
Assessing with the right purpose in mind
Aligning the assessment with learning outcomes
Assessing the skills that foster interdisciplinarity
Subskills and learning outcomes
Assessing integration
Howto navigate the examples
1 Assessing perspective-taking skills with a simulation game
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
2 Making'big ideas'tangible with an installation
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
3 Self-assessment of boundary-crossing competences
Experiencesand insights of the lecturers
4 Peer feedback on the reflection of a stakeholder dialogue
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
5 Experiencing the learning process using a portfolio
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
6 A rubric for interdisciplinary capstone projects
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
7 Making failure a learning tool for collaboration skills
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
8 Evaluation of the golden principles of collaboration
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
9 Reflection on teamwork and disciplinary expert roles
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
10 A moot court to build critical thinking skills
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
12Grading the contributions to class discussions
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
13 Da nee assessment as experiential learning
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
Enhancing critical thinking with Perusall
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
15Co-creation of a rubric to encourage ownership of learning
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
16 Peer and self-assessment for student-led activities
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
17 From feed-up to feed-forward
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
18Comparative judgment as a tool for learning
About the course and assessment
19The co-creation of assessment criteria
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
20Reflection on interdisciplinary competences using a portfolio
About the course and assessment
Experiences and insights of the lecturer
Final remarks: towards new ways of assessment
Lessons learned for meaningful assessment in interdisciplinary education
Index
References
About the authors
About the series
