French novelist Marcel Proust instructs us that, "a voyage of discovery consists, not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing through new eyes." Nowhere in the practice of education do we need to see through new eyes than in the domain of assessment. We have been trapped by our collective experiences to see a limited array of things to be assessed, a very few ways of assessing them, limited strategies for communicating results and inflexible roles of players in the assessment drama. This edited book of readings jolts us out of traditional habits of mind about assessment. An international...
French novelist Marcel Proust instructs us that, "a voyage of discovery consists, not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing through new eyes." Nowh...
French novelist Marcel Proust instructs us that, "a voyage of discovery consists, not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing through new eyes." Nowhere in the practice of education do we need to see through new eyes than in the domain of assessment. We have been trapped by our collective experiences to see a limited array of things to be assessed, a very few ways of assessing them, limited strategies for communicating results and inflexible roles of players in the assessment drama. This edited book of readings jolts us out of traditional habits of mind about assessment. An international...
French novelist Marcel Proust instructs us that, "a voyage of discovery consists, not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing through new eyes." Nowh...
About the Book Series The idea for the Book Series Innovation and Change in Professional Education (ICPE) was born in 1996. While working on another publication in this area, we noticed that professional educators faced similar problems without even knowing from each other. It was this observation that resulted in examining the possibilities for a new publication platform about professional education with input from different professions. We wanted to develop a publication source that would bring together educators and researchers to exchange ideas and knowledge about theory, research and...
About the Book Series The idea for the Book Series Innovation and Change in Professional Education (ICPE) was born in 1996. While working on another p...
About the Book Series The idea for the Book Series Innovation and Change in Professional Education (ICPE) was born in 1996. While working on another publication in this area, we noticed that professional educators faced similar problems without even knowing from each other. It was this observation that resulted in examining the possibilities for a new publication platform about professional education with input from different professions. We wanted to develop a publication source that would bring together educators and researchers to exchange ideas and knowledge about theory, research and...
About the Book Series The idea for the Book Series Innovation and Change in Professional Education (ICPE) was born in 1996. While working on another p...
The intent of this book is to describe how a professor can provide a learning en vironment that assists students to come to grips with the nature of science and engineering, to understand science and engineering concepts, and to solve problems in science and engineering courses. As such, this book is intended to be useful for any science or engineering professor, who wants to change their course to include more effective teaching methods, to instructors at post-secondary institutions, who are beginning their careers, and as a handbook for TA s. Since the book is based upon articles that I...
The intent of this book is to describe how a professor can provide a learning en vironment that assists students to come to grips with the nature of s...
This book provides an in-depth insight into the Dedicated Education Units (DEU) clinical learning strategy. It shows how DEUs work and explains the concept, philosophy, principles, practical implementation and first-hand experiences of this ground-breaking, global work-integrated learning strategy. It presents the benefits of DEUs and offers insight into how DEUs can provide real options for solving the increasingly complex dilemma of providing more students with more experiences of hands-on practice while reducing costs and ensuring greater numbers of work ready graduates. The book serves as...
This book provides an in-depth insight into the Dedicated Education Units (DEU) clinical learning strategy. It shows how DEUs work and explains the co...
The contributing authors of this multidisciplinary text agree that workplace learning truly is extraordinary when it is marked by structural congruence and a positive synergy among the intended and formal preparation of professionals, that tacit learning occurs within the hidden curriculum, and that the subsequent demands, both formal and tacit, are embedded in subsequent workplace settings. Thus, for this text, these authors explore research and practice literature related to curriculum, instruction and assessment of professionals' learning in the workplace and the implications for best...
The contributing authors of this multidisciplinary text agree that workplace learning truly is extraordinary when it is marked by structural congru...
Educators in the professions have always had unique demands placed upon them. These include the need to keep pace with rapidly evolving knowledge bases, developing skills and attitudes appropriate to practice, learning in the workplace and fostering public confidence.
For twenty years, these new demands have created additional educational imperatives. Public accountability has become more intensive and extensive. Practitioners practice in climates more subject to scrutiny and less forgiving of error. The contexts in which professionals practice and learn have changed and these...
Educators in the professions have always had unique demands placed upon them. These include the need to keep pace with rapidly evolving knowledge b...
This book describes the pedagogical foundations of the Roskilde Model of education and educational design. It presents knowledge about how principles of problem-oriented, interdisciplinary and participant-directed project work may serve as a basis for planning and applying educational activities at institutions of higher learning. It discusses the dilemmas, problems, and diverging views that have challenged the model, provoking experiments and reforms that have helped develop practice without compromising the key principles.
The Roskilde Model combines various student-centered...
This book describes the pedagogical foundations of the Roskilde Model of education and educational design. It presents knowledge about how principl...
This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education. It addresses how complex issues are learned and assessed across and within different disciplines and professions in order to move the process of performance assessment for learning to the next level. In order to be better equipped to cope with increasing complexity, change and diversity in professional education and performance assessment, administrators and educators will engage in crucial systems thinking. The main question discussed by...
This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions educati...
