Assessment and Evaluation in Outdoor Education

Singapore University of Social Sciences

Assessment and Evaluation in Outdoor Education (BSE531)

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Language: English

Duration: 6 months

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Area of Interest: Education

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School/Department: S R Nathan School of Human Development

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Synopsis

BSE531 Assessment and Evaluation in Outdoor Education provides students with information concerning assessment and evaluation in outdoor education. The topics covered will equip students with assessment and evaluation techniques essential for becoming an effective evaluator in the outdoor education landscape. Students will also learn research methods, test construction, test administration, data collection, and concepts of data inference.

Level: 5
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: Every July

Topics

Advanced Measurement and Evaluation in Outdoor Education
Principles of Outdoor Education Research
Principles in Measuring and Evaluating Outdoor Education Programmes
Psychological Testing
Affective Testing
Inferential Statistic

Learning Outcome

Critique issues surrounding the nature and practice of outdoor education.
Analyze various research approaches within the field of outdoor education.
Evaluate practices of test, measurement and evaluation in outdoor education.
Compose relevant tests to measure physical, cognitive and psycho-emotional outcomes in outdoor education.
Formulate strategies for outdoor programme development and evaluate the role of measurement and evaluation in this process.
Plan and perform test administration, data collection and data inference.
Perform inferential statistics.