Assessing Growth of Student Reasoning Skills in Honors

Autor/inn/en	Wood-Nartker, Jeanneane; Hinck, Shelly; Hullender, Ren
Titel	Assessing Growth of Student Reasoning Skills in Honors
Quelle	In: Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 17 (2016) 1, S.237-255 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1559-0151
Schlagwörter	Honors Curriculum; Evaluation Methods; Student Evaluation; Skill Development; Higher Education; College Students; Thinking Skills; Service Learning; Writing Assignments; Student Attitudes; Reflection; Consciousness Raising; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Collegestudent; Denkfähigkeit; Service-Learning; Schülerverhalten; Bewusstseinsbildung
Abstract	Assessment and evaluation practices within honors programs have attracted considerable attention within the honors academic community, e.g., the spring/summer 2006 volume of the "Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council." Calls for carefully created and constructed assessment activities within honors programs have met with mixed responses by directors who identify the difficulty in assessing decentralized, complex learning environments, noting that standard measures such as tests, surveys, or essays are not always applicable or appropriate in addressing honors assessment needs, especially in areas of social justice, service learning, and community engagement (Corley & Zubizarreta; Lanier). The focus of this paper is to share one effective method for gathering evidence that indicates whether students advanced in their ability to think at a more complex level within a short-term honors service learning course. Grounded in Wolcott and Lynch's Steps to Better Thinking Skills model, this augmented assessment tool identifies growth in critical thinking skills and areas of intellectual risk. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Collegiate Honors Council. 1100 Neihardt Residence Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 540 North 16th Street, Lincoln, NE 68588. Tel: 402-472-9150; Fax: 402-472-9152; e-mail: nchc@unl.edu; Web site: http://nchchonors.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01