Kioupi, V. orcid.org/0000-0002-6174-5546 and Voulvoulis, N. (2022) The Contribution of Higher Education to Sustainability: The Development and Assessment of Sustainability Competences in a University Case Study. Education Sciences, 12 (6). 406. ISSN 2227-7102
Abstract
Universities can make a significant contribution to sustainability, and the development of sustainability competences in their graduates should be a key outcome of their courses. We propose an assessment framework for enabling and evaluating the attainment of sustainability competences in University students. We outline its six steps, offering tools on how to assess the alignment of University programs’ Learning Outcomes (LOs) to sustainability and how translate them into competences for sustainability. We provide approaches to evaluate existing assessment methods in terms of enabling students to develop and apply their competences, guidance on how to conduct the assessments to collect data on student performance and eventually how to use the data, and evidence collected to evaluate if the students are developing the intended competences. We illustrate the application of the assessment tool in a University case study and we draw conclusions on the evidence it offers to how higher education practitioners can benefit from its use.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/ |
Keywords: | sustainability competences; learning outcomes; assessment tools; ESD; higher education programs |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2025 09:09 |
Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2025 09:09 |
Published Version: | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/6/406 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/educsci12060406 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:223065 |