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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Work in progress: Coloring Outside the Lines - Exploring the Potential for Integrating Creative Evaluation in Engineering Education

Presented at Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

Extant cultures within academic institutions that educate and train the next generations of STEM professionals tend to privilege long-held majority perspectives of knowing, thinking, and doing in science and engineering. To more intentionally recruit and include diverse groups of students into our educational programs, it is imperative that we develop and adopt unique pedagogical and assessment approaches that move beyond didactics, leverage experiential learning, and embrace a variety of student backgrounds and identities. In this paper, we demonstrate how visual methods-based assessments can serve as an impactful alternative to more traditional forms. We start by introducing three examples currently used in STEM curricula, and then by describing how these assessments promote autonomy and creativity as students make meaning of STEM and of themselves as STEM professionals. We conclude the description of each assessment example by identifying key considerations for STEM instructors when attempting to implement such assessments in their own contexts.

Authors
  1. Dr. Cherie D. Edwards Virginia Commonwealth University
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