Summary
Join the CIEEM Academia SIG for the March discussion events. We will be hearing about how competency based and authentic assessment can benefit graduate employability.
Description
Authentic and competency-based approaches to teaching provide a means for students to gain vital professional ecological skills that are much sought after by employers. This paradigm shift in teaching delivery methods encourages the students to think like ecologists and become independent learners. It requires providers to reframe course content so that students can put ecological theory into practice. This session will investigate what we mean by ‘authentic’ and ‘competency-based', drawing upon cases studies from our own teachings and pedagogic research and student perspectives.
Dr Debbie Bartlett is Professor Emeritus in Environmental Conservation at the University of Greenwich and, with experience of developing MSc programmes and the L7 Apprenticeship has been carrying out research into and promoting competency based and authentic assessment for many years.
Dr Sarah Taylor is Lecturer in Ecology at Keele University, with 15 years experience of developing authentic university-level course materials and assessments, successfully completing an action research project on facilitating ecological employability skills for her MA in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and has published pedagogic research.
