How Do We Measure Affective Learning in Higher Education?

Nell Buissink-Smith, Samuel Mann and Kerry Shephard
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Nell Buissink-Smith: Nell Buissink-Smith is a lecturer in student learning development in the Higher Education Development Centre (HEDC) at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Email: nell.smith@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Samuel Mann: Samuel Mann is an associate professor at the School of Information Technology, Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin. Email: smann@tekotago.ac.nz
Kerry Shephard: Kerry Shephard (the corresponding author) is professor of Higher Education Development at HEDC at the University of Otago. Email: kerry.shephard@otago.ac.nz

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2011, vol. 5, issue 1, 101-114

Abstract: Educational outcomes related to sustainability often include affective attributes such as values, attitudes and behaviours. Educators in higher education who attempt to research, monitor, assess or evaluate learning of affective attributes can face a bewildering array of methodologies and approaches and a research literature that spans several fields of enquiry. This article provides an overview of affective learning in the broad area of education for sustainable development, guidance for university teachers and researchers contemplating measuring affective attributes and a frame-work of affective attribute measurement based on the Krathwohl et al. (1964) taxonomy.

Keywords: Measuring affective attributes; attitudes, dispositions and behaviours; evaluating affective outcomes; assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/097340821000500113

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