Tag: Assessment
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Empowering Mindset Transformation
At the moment, I am working with a new team of teachers to be a part of developing a new course about global challenges on a new program we have at our business school. In my talks with different lecturers who have experience teaching in different universities in different countries, most disclose difficulties when trying…
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Learning For Sustainbaility and Gaining Knowledge About Sustainbility
This week we presented our project with an ESD group at KTH university. We had an interesting discussion about how the Sustainability Competence Assessment tool is designed and what type of competence it measures. The questionnaire uses scales already tested in the Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) literature, which we discuss in our recently published…
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ESD Learning Progression Step 1: Assessment Validation (update)
Picture from department of applied physics and electronics at Umeå University
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Supporting Students and Teachers Learning Progression for Sustainability
We have had a good response from several study programs this week. The students have taken part in the first round of the questionnaire that helps to inform teachers about the student groups’ key sustainability competencies (KSC). The teachers that will have the students in the next module will be better prepared, since they can…
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Learning Progression Part 1: Assessment
Our first steps to help support teachers advance education for sustainability is to provide an assessment tool that can inform teachers about their students’ competence in sustainability before they come to class. While conducting this study we came across several different types of assessment tools that can be used to assess the key sustainability competencies.…
