Meaningful Assessment in Interdisciplinary Education

Acknowledgments, Introduction, Why this handbook?, Structure of this handbook, , Part 1 Getting started with the assessment of interdisciplinarity, Meaningful assessment, Assessing with the right purpose in mind, Providing powerful feedback Making use of authentic assessment, Aligning the assessment with learning outcomes, Aligning the asssessment with pedagogical beliefs and values, Assessing the skills that foster interdisciplinarity, Definitions: multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary, Subskills and learning outcomes, Assessing integration, Assessing critical thinking, Assessing collaboration, Assessing reflection, Part 2 The examples How to navigate the examples 1 Assessing perspective-taking skills with a simulation game, 2 Making 'big ideas' tangible with an installation, 3 Self-assessment of boundary-crossing competences, 4 Peer feedback on the reflection of a stakeholder dialogue, 5 Experiencing the learning process using a portfolio, 6 A rubric for interdisciplinary capstone projects, 7 Making failure a learning tool for collaboration skills, 8 Evaluation of the golden principles of collaboration, 9 Reflection on teamwork and disciplinary expert roles, 10 A moot court to build critical thinking skills, 11 Authentic assessment, learning by accident, 12 Grading the contributions to class discussions, 13 Dance assessment as experiential learning, 14 Enhancing critical thinking with Perusall, 15 Co-creation of a rubric to encourage ownership of learning, 16 Peer and self-assessment for student-led activities, 17 From feed-up to feed-forward, 18 Comparative judgment as a tool for learning, 19 The co-creation of assessment criteria, 20 Reflection on interdisciplinary competences using a portfolio, Final remarks: towards new ways of assessment, Lessons learned for meaningful assessment in interdisciplinary education, Taking the next steps, Index, References, Colophon.