Lönngren, J., & Svanström, M. (2015, June), Assessing the “Wicked Sustainability Problem” – Literacy in Engineering Education  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23585

\bibitem{asee_peer_23585}
  Lönngren, J., \& Svanström, M. (2015, June), \emph{Assessing the “Wicked Sustainability Problem” – Literacy in Engineering Education}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.23585

Johanna Lönngren and Magdalena Svanström.  "Assessing the “Wicked Sustainability Problem” – Literacy in Engineering Education".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/23585 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_23585}
  Johanna Lönngren and Magdalena Svanström.
  "Assessing the “Wicked Sustainability Problem” – Literacy in Engineering Education".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/23585 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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AB  -                 Assessing “Wicked Sustainability Problem”-Literacy                            in Engineering EducationEnvironmental and sustainability problems are commonly called “wicked sustainabilityproblems” (WSPs). They are called “wicked” because they are highly complex, contested, andlack single right solutions. Students in environmental engineering need to learn how to deal withWSPs in accordance with the principles of sustainability, i.e. they need WSP-literacy. Scholarsin the field of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) stress that traditional approachesto assessing ESE competences, such as WSP-literacy, are inadequate. However, the literaturedoes not yet provide a rigorous, empirically based discussion about what could be more adequateapproaches. In this paper, we address this gap by providing an instrument for assessing WSP-literacy in engineering education.The instrument is developed through an action research approach that involves three iterationswith different groups of engineering educators. The first two iterations consist of two workshopsheld with ESE practitioners. In these workshops, literature on WSPs and WSP-literacy isintroduced as a theoretical basis for discussions. Participates are then engaged in 1. Discussingthe purpose of assessment in ESE in general; 2. Formulating concrete learning outcomes that canbe used to operationalize WSP-literacy in the context of engineering education; and 3.Discussing possible ways of assessing these learning outcomes. The role of the researchers in theworkshops is to guide the discussions with a focus on constructive alignment between desiredlearning outcomes and assessment approaches.The workshops are held in November 2013 and January 2014. The second workshop is expectedto build on the results of the first workshop, but it involves a different group of participants. Bothworkshops are audio-recorded and provide a basis for the researchers to develop a pilot versionof a comprehensive assessment instrument. The third iteration involves practical testing of thepilot instrument in several ESE courses and further refining it in collaboration with the teachersin those courses. We expect the resulting assessment instrument, which will be presented at theASEE 2015 conference, to be rigorously grounded in previous research, practical experience,and direct testing in a real educational context. We further expect the instrument to be directlyapplicable by engineering educators who need to assess WSP-literacy.
AU  - Johanna Lönngren
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