Process skills are frequently cited as critical components of a successful education as well as a competent workforce. Many innovative pedagogical approaches involve creating active learning environments that engage students' process skills in addition to developing content knowledge. This project involves the development of resources to provide feedback to students and to inform instructors as to the effectiveness of their instructional strategies in supporting process skill development across a broad range of active learning pedagogies across STEM disciplines.
Project Goals
Goal 1: Create resources that can be readily adopted by instructors to assess student process skills at academic institutions.
Goal 2: Create professional development tools to improve the recognition, development and assessment of process skills at academic institutions.
Project Activities
Develop and validate a set of rubrics that can be used to assess evidence of process skills during student interactions in active learning STEM classrooms and in student products and written work.
Develop rubrics in multiple formats, including analytic and feedback, to provide faculty with a wide range of customizable classroom tools.
Develop an implementation guide and video resources to assist instructors in identifying/developing tasks that elicit evidence of process skill development and facilitate the effective implementation of rubrics.
Offer faculty development workshops at a broad range of professional meetings for STEM educators.
