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Mapping Assessment in Anthropology: Using Team‐Based Qualitative Methodology to Create Learning Objectives and Evaluate Outcomes
Author(s) -
RICKE AUDREY
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of anthropological practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.22
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2153-9588
pISSN - 2153-957X
DOI - 10.1111/napa.12127
Subject(s) - creativity , qualitative property , qualitative research , ethnography , work (physics) , applied anthropology , test (biology) , team based learning , knowledge management , mathematics education , sociology , pedagogy , computer science , psychology , medical education , engineering , social science , anthropology , medicine , mechanical engineering , social psychology , machine learning , paleontology , biology
Anthropology departments are increasingly faced with the challenge of developing assessment strategies to document and assess student learning as it relates to university‐ and state‐level learning objectives. This article draws on the work in applied anthropology as it relates to assessment and team‐based qualitative data analysis to develop and test a model for mapping assessment in higher education. It introduces a model for aligning course learning objectives with departmental, university, and state‐level goals and assessing student performance across multiple sections of an introductory anthropology course that contains different assignments, ethnographies, and exams. Based on case study data, this research shows how qualitative methods developed for team‐based research can be applied to sustain instructor creativity in the area of pedagogy while coordinating assessment.