Taking a Pass on Assessment Grades for a Career Focused Tour of the Middle East

Autor/inn/en	Hardy, Mat; Totman, Sally
Titel	Taking a Pass on Assessment Grades for a Career Focused Tour of the Middle East
Quelle	In: Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 33 (2021) 1, S.148-167 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1085-4568
Schlagwörter	Grades (Scholastic); Travel; Elective Courses; Units of Study; Undergraduate Students; Career Development; Political Issues; Grading; Individual Development; Experiential Learning; Writing (Composition); Foreign Countries; Capstone Experiences; Career Choice; Student Attitudes; Program Descriptions; Refugees; Writing Assignments; Study Abroad; Feedback (Response); Conflict; Middle East + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Notenspiegel; Travelling; Reisen; Reise; Elective course; Wahlkurs; Lerneinheit; Berufsentwicklung; Politischer Faktor; Notengebung; Schulnote; Individuelle Entwicklung; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Schreibübung; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Flüchtling; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Konflikt; Vorderasien
Abstract	The Middle East Study Tour (MEST) is a capstone elective unit that stands alone as a credit module towards an undergraduate degree. The tour has the dual purposes of exposing students to the Middle East region's political challenges and better illuminating potential career paths for life after university. But is one student's personal discovery (or their ability to express it in writing) more valuable than another's? Attaching a numerical grade to such endeavours would seem to support that idea. For this reason, the MEST uses an 'Ungraded Pass' approach to the assessments. That is, the students pass the assignments (and the module) by submitting their work, but without any score being awarded. This article explains the mechanisms the MEST uses for assessment and how this aligns with the goal of the program to expose students to the real world of political struggles and personal development. It utilises feedback from the participating students to provide a discussion on a program that has a slightly different focus to most of the existing study abroad literature. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01