Assessing Competence in Professional Performance Across Disciplines and Professions

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Performance assessment is an expanding field in professions education and a source for innovation in practice and policy, because faculty and researchers across undergraduate and graduate professions focus curricular improvements on direct student performance in classrooms and portfolio assessments for developing professional roles. Performance assessment in legal education from a literature review; assessing performance in engineering practice across 20 years; interdisciplinary education across domains of practice; and building blocks for faculty development across professions focus the presentations. Following the symposium, McKee and Park lead small groups and summarize contributions for Professions Education Research Quarterly. This symposium broadens performance assessment across professions by involving audience participants in issues and solutions for their own campus practices.

Sub Unit

• Division I - Education in the Professions

Chair

• Paul F. Wimmers, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• Assessing Performance in Legal Education - Erika J. Abner, University of Toronto; Shelley Kierstead, York University

• Assessing Performance in Engineering Education: Examples Across 20 Years of Practice - John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

• Assessing Performance in Interdisciplinary Higher Education: Lessons and Issues From the United Kingdom - Mark Russell, King's College London; Anne Christine McKee, King's College London; Michele Russell-Westhead, King's College London

• Building Competence in Performance Assessment: What a Faculty Needs to Know and Do - Ara Tekian, University of Illinois at Chicago; John J. Norcini, Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research

Discussant

• Marcia Mentkowski, Alverno College