Open AccessAn Integrative Multi-Dimensional Model of Culturally Relevant Academic Evaluation for the 21st Century
Author(s) -
Idit Finkelstein,
Shira Soffer-Vital,
Yael Shraga-Roitman,
Revital Cohen-Liverant,
Tsfira Grebelsky-Lichtman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1927-6052
pISSN - 1927-6044
DOI - 10.5430/ijhe.v11n1p187
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , curriculum , context (archaeology) , higher education , process (computing) , engineering ethics , sociology , pedagogy , psychology , computer science , engineering , political science , geography , archaeology , law , operating system
Due to Covid-19, the world has encountered new challenges regarding pedagogy, learning, assessment, and evaluation. In meeting these challenges, there have been rapid changes in learning, and the gap between pedagogy and evaluation has grown. The purpose of this paper is to develop a new evaluative model suitable for the technologically enhanced, multicultural environment of the 21st century. In this article, we develop a unique multidimensional model of Culturally Relevant Academic Evaluation (CRAE) that fills a gap in the scientific literature on evaluation in higher education. The model depicts evaluation as an integrated process of four dimensions: two of them based on the well-established dimensions of learning and curriculum, and two based on the novel dimensions of inclusive multiculturalism and technology. We consider evaluation in its broad context in higher education, and we analyze the interrelations between the four dimensions of the evaluation process, discussing their contribution to the enhancement of evaluation in higher education.