Rehumanizing Assessment

"Storytelling, a highly creative and versatile skill, affords students a profoundly engaging means of exploring concepts and questions in uniquely personal ways. In Rehumanizing Assessment: Gathering Evidence of Student Learning Through Storytelling, Tom Schimmer and Natalie Vardabasso examine the potential and historically proven benefits of storytelling in elevating student learning and innovation. Drawing upon research and culturally diverse story structure practices, they demonstrate how these benefits can be brought to bear in academic contexts, and they offer diverse strategies by which students may hone and demonstrate growing competencies through narrative craft. In an age when innovation, self-agency, and community are prized and encouraged, Rehumanizing Assessment presents a viable, creative method of assessment that will transform students' engagement with learning objectives from rote memorization to thoughtful, meaningful contemplation and expression"-- Provided by publisher.