| Title | Community Engaged Learning at UBC: Developing student assessment tools and guidelines to support learning outcomes and student experience |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | VP Students |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2018 |
| Completion | 04/30/2020 |
| Project Summary | Developing measurable outcomes and student assessment is an on-going challenge faced by faculty who deliver community-engaged learning (CEL) (Taylor and Leffers, 2016). While other institutions have developed methods to assess student learning in community-engaged courses (University of Maryland, 2016), UBC faculty would benefit from methods that serve their specific courses and support better CEL teaching and learning practices at UBC. This project builds on work by the Centre for Community-Engaged Learning to enhance teaching and learning practices of faculty delivering CEL courses. The two-year project will develop general and course-specific student learning assessment methods (such as self-assessment surveys and reflective journaling) for selected courses. From these, guidelines will be developed to support future faculty across the university to design their own methods in other CEL courses. These would serve as open educational resources with the potential to support faculty delivery and subsequently student learning for CEL courses across UBC. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2018/2019 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Jason Penner |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 21,281 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Jason Penner, Community-based Experiential Learning Officer, Centre for Community-Engaged Learning |
| Year 1: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2019/2020 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Shadi Mehrabi |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 28,696 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Shadi Mehrabi, Community Engaged Learning Officer, Centre for Community Engaged Learning |
| Project Report | 2019-TLEF-Final-Mehrabi-WEB.pdf |