Freedom and frameworks: Free assignments in teaching and asssessment

In the first-year course Ethnographic Monographs of the bachelor’s programme Social and Cultural Anthropology, students experiment with ways to convey a message.

Fac. of Social SciencesProgramme component

In the first-year course Ethnographic Monographs of the bachelor’s programme Social and Cultural Anthropology, students experiment with ways to convey a message.
Students work together on a project, exploring the effect of a jointly chosen form on how a message comes across. This has resulted in creative end products such as short films and poems. In a reflection report, students justify the choices made, reflect on what they have learned from them and how this relates to the learning objectives of the course.
Awareness of learning objectives and the freedom to choose a final product form stimulates ownership of the learning process.

Zie ook de Toetsvisievorm: Studenten bepalen zelf hun toetsvorm

Zie ook: Project-based learning, Self reflection (reflection report).

Design principles

Assessment integral part of the learning process
Assessment stimulates ownership
Assessment prepares for role in society

Programme specific skills in applying knowledge and understandingInterpersonal skillsOral communicationWritten communicationOwn reflexive attitude and responsibility in societyResponsible for own study career and study successUp to twenty fiveUp to fiftyBetween fifty and one hundredIndividualSmall group (2-4 pers)