The next CA Exchange is coming up! With this webinar series we highlight great activities in our network and foster interaction and exchange between colleagues from different member institutions and beyond. On 2 June 2025, 15.30-17.00 CET, Jordan King (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, US), will join former CA President Anne Zimmermann and current CA Co-President Elisabeth Hofmann to explore ways of rethinking how we assess, mark, and learn in higher education. Please register by 29 May 2025.
CA Exchange: "Frustrated about the need to mark an inspiring ESD session? Let’s think about it together!"
2 June 2025
15.30-17.00 CET
online (Zoom)
There is much discussion of the need for transformative learning in higher education, especially related to education for sustainable development. But how do we assess transformative learning? How can we do so while still providing valid marks for students? And how can assessment promote transformative learning? Perhaps assessment as a practice is also in need of transformation in order to better evaluate and facilitate transformative learning. This exchange will explore the challenges and opportunities of practice in this area with the aim of identifying ways of rethinking how we assess, mark, and learn in higher education.
Jordan King (early career researcher and Director of Innovations in Honors and Professor of Practice at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, US), will join former CA President Anne Zimmermann and current CA Co-President Elisabeth Hofmann to facilitate this interactive CA Exchange session. We will invite participants to share their own experiences in this area, while describing lessons from two examples of student-centered assessment approaches. These examples, which come from universities in the United States and France, describe how students were supported by instructors to create personalized rubrics for an assignment through a process that was participative (by being student-led), normative (by engaging with the values reflected in learning standards), and integrative (by involving the deliberation and synthesis of different perspectives). The insights from these examples will provide a launchpad for participants to consider their own approaches to assessing transformative learning and how the student-oriented process can be adapted to different cultural contexts and learning settings. Ultimately, we hope that the exchange will inspire participants to experiment with their assessment strategies to better align them with the transformative aims of sustainability-focused teaching and learning.
Registration
The CA Exchange takes place on Zoom. Some days before the event, we'll send the Zoom link to all registered participants. Everybody can join the CA Exchange for free. We explicitly invite all interested colleagues and students from member institutions and beyond to join and encourage you to spread the word! To confirm your participation, please register by 29 May 2025 by clicking on the link below.
