Abstract

This paper argues that development of students’ evaluative judgement capability, which encapsulates a range of cognitive and social skills, should be considered as a primary objective of the collaborative problem-solving assessment practices in engineering. This is a response to call for preparing job-ready students. To meet the multiple demands of complex, agile and innovative projects in the world of work, engineering graduates need to draw on their own decision-making ability and make informed judgements in various collaborative problem-solving situations. However, a review of literature shows that there is a lack of a robust model on which assessment designers can rely as a guidance to develop collaborative problem-solving assessment activities that might progressively contribute to the development of this much-needed capability. By conceptualising the concept of evaluative judgement and identifying the elements of collaborative problem-solving that can foster it, the paper concludes by proposing a stage-based model for designing and implementing assessment activities at the individual course level.

摘要

本文认为，发展学生的评价性判断能力，包括一系列认知和社交技能，应被视为工程中协作解决问题评估实践的主要目标。这是对为做好就业准备的学生的呼吁做出的回应。为了满足工作世界中复杂、敏捷和创新项目的多重需求，工程专业的毕业生需要利用自己的决策能力，在各种协作解决问题的情况下做出明智的判断。然而，对文献的回顾表明，评估设计者可以依赖的强大模型作为指导来开发协作解决问题的评估活动，这些活动可能会逐步促进这种急需的能力的发展。