ABSTRACT

The background of this article is an interest in analysing how assessment of professional skills is conducted in higher education contexts, drawing on video data from a course on maritime navigation. The empirical study focuses on a) how students working in a bridge simulator are able to display their knowledge about how to calculate the relation between rate of turn, turn rate and speed when navigating, and b) how their performance is evaluated. The results show that the dynamics of the assessment situation and the interaction between the student and the assessor are decisive in how well students manage the task. When analysing assessment of a professional skill as a concrete practice, knowledge emerges through joint work and cannot be ascribed to the student only. At one level, this may be seen as a threat to the validity of the testing situation, but from a different perspective, the display of knowledge-in-action is always responsive to what happens in the exercise of a professional skill.

摘要

本文的背景是分析如何在高等教育环境中进行专业技能评估，利用航海课程的视频数据。实证研究的重点是 a) 在桥梁模拟器中工作的学生如何能够展示他们在导航时如何计算转弯率、转弯率和速度之间关系的知识，以及 b) 如何评估他们的表现。结果表明，评估情况的动态变化以及学生与评估员之间的互动对于学生完成任务的能力具有决定性作用。将专业技能的评估分析为具体实践时，知识是通过共同工作产生的，不能仅归因于学生。在一个层面上，