Meeting the Challenge of Teaching Integrated Assessment

Abstract

In this chapter, the focus shifts to an exploration of how the flexible, multilayered approach to assessment set forth in previous chapters can actually be taught to students. Like clients, teachers and students have different styles, needs, and preferences, and thus, different approaches will resonate under different conditions and with different groups of learners. The skillful and effective instructor must be able to shift and adapt among a diverse pedagogical repertoire in order to convey how ideas, concepts, and models are actualized and rendered useful in real-world practice. Three approaches are described that foster this kind of knowledge-for-use: cognitive apprenticeship, problem-based learning (PBL), and experiential teaching. Principles, examples, and specific teaching strategies are provided for each model, with discussion of caveats and potential challenges. Exemplars of classroom activities and assignments are then analyzed to show how they embody or elicit the pedagogical principles of these three models. The chapter concludes with a list of ten essential teaching heuristics.