Leader, Lead Thy Self? Contract Grading as Parallel Learning for Student in the MSW in Critical Leadership at McMaster University (65989)
Session Chair: Jeffrey Trambley
Saturday, January 7, 2023 (12:10)
Session: Session 2
Room: 321B
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
Contract grading is an approach to summative assessment that remakes the grading process from a top-down activity to a process of collaborative engagement. Common in professional graduate programs, contract grading requires students to articulate a specific grading outcome based on the actions and activities required to reach an end result formulated around a course-based learning goal. Students enter into a ‘contract’ with their instructor by predetermining how they will complete required learning activities and developing a method of assessment for evaluating the outcomes. The assignment challenges outcomes driven learning approaches, placing greater emphasis on learning processes, something social workers, who are often structured into neoliberal work culture find exceptionally challenging. For students, learning about leadership in this way provides a parallel process with the experience of being a leader; many organizational and community-based leaders receive feedback from colleagues and collaborators without receiving summative evaluation, leaving these leaders to develop their own way of understanding the ‘what and why’ of doing and what their activities means to their overarching leadership goals. This presentation provides an overview of the pedagogical knowledge of contract grading and considers processes for developing a contract grading assignment in a graduate level course.
Authors:
Tara La Rose, McMaster University, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Tara La Rose is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at McMaster University in Canada
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