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Grant program: Teaching and Learning Development Grant (TLDG)

Grant recipient: Anthony Chan, Beedie School of Business

Project team: Carol A. Edwards, Beedie School of Business, Elizabeth Macey, research assistant

Timeframe: April 2021 to August 2021

Funding: $5,000

Course addressed: BUS 555 – Managerial Finance

Description: We will use this project to develop effective, and shareable, methods to reconfigure a course so that traditional testing methods, such as exams, may be replaced by other methods for evaluating student performance. The grant will also be used to develop, apply, and evaluate the effectiveness of our revised methods of assessment applying a 360-degree valuation method, similar to that used in the business world, to the evaluation of students. We will use a combination of multiple methods employed successfully by organizations: self-assessment, assessment by the team, assessment by the class, assessment by the TA and/or assessment by the professor.

Questions addressed:

• How effective is a 360-degree valuation method, similar to that used in the business world (i.e., a combination of self-evaluation, evaluation by the team, evaluation by the class, evaluation by the TA and/or evaluation by the professor) in assessing student performance?
  
• What are the requirements for undertaking effective 360 in this teaching and learning context?
• How does this process work to support student learning?
• How does the case study method of assessment (rather than exams) work alongside a 360 approach in supporting students to demonstrate learning outcomes?
• What is the experience of the students in undertaking this process for giving and receiving feedback?
  
• What do students learn by undertaking a 360 approach (about themselves and each other)?
  

Knowledge Sharing: We envision significant impact on the practices of our colleagues. Ultimately, we would like to provide an operational framework, and validated tools, to inspire changes in the way that assessment of student performance is conducted from traditional testing to methods similar to those our students and graduates would experience in the working world.