Business School pedagogy development session Aligning experiential learning and assessment opportunities

This session continues the series of research and pedagogical workshops with Professor Kathy Lund Dean, Honorary Professor in the Department of Management.

Assessment is an inevitable fact of accredited business schools and management education. ‘Assessment' or ‘assurance of learning' requirements often evoke eye rolls and annoyance, particularly for engaged and experiential educators who are skeptical that assessment processes can capture the learning outcomes they want. In this interactive session, join Kathy Lund Dean and colleagues to reframe assessment of experiential learning opportunities as a chance to align course design, learning objectives, learning activities and assessment processes that show the extent to which students actually came away with those learning objectives.

Discussion points include:
* a model by which to consider the relationship among constructivist learning, course design, learning objectives, learning activities and assessment techniques
* recommended syllabus language signalling to students the unique nature of experiential learning activities and outcomes
* defining specific learning objectives that can be measured and that students can understand
* how to design rubrics appropriate for engaged learning and its focus on constructivist and process-based learning
* examples of custom student evaluation of teaching (SET) questions that offer practical and authentic student feedback.

Further details about the seminar have been circulated within the School.