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Designing and Evaluating Students' Transformative Learning

2017· article· en· W2772297392 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Nina Namaste

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation and Critical Thinking Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCognitive dissonanceTransformative learningIntercultural learningPsychologyPedagogyScholarshipIntercultural communicationStudy abroadSociologyMathematics educationSocial psychologyPolitical science

Abstract

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Transformative learning hinges on navigating cognitive dissonance; thus, intercultural competency assignments and experiences need to be integrated into study abroad/away courses to help students process and make sense of the cognitive dissonance such an experience provides. Assignments, therefore, need to consciously and intentionally triangulate learning by addressing the read (course readings), the lived/observed (conversations, interactions, activities, excursions, observations about public portrayals of culture, etc.), and the compared (home culture vs. host culture). The hope is to improve students’ experiences so that semesters abroad are consistently deep, enriching, and intellectual as opposed to simply an extended tourist sojourn. This article documents the process by which I designed for and assessed, via an in-depth analysis of students’ texts/writings, students’ transformation of their intercultural competency skills and development. In addition, I compared students’ works from two differing semesters to evaluate whether transformation in intercultural competency is inherent in the nature of study abroad or must be explicitly taught and cultivated. My Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project corroborated the almost ten years of research that confirm our fears: exposure to another culture is not enough; studying and living abroad does not necessarily lead to increased intercultural learning. Meaningful, integrative, “learning-laden,” and transformative study abroad experiences hinge on students’ ability to make sense of cognitive dissonance. Intercultural competency assignments, therefore, need to be fully and intentionally designed and integrated into such experiences, and evaluated to document such growth. L’apprentissage transformationnel repose sur la manière de naviguer la dissonance cognitive. Par conséquent, les devoirs qui traitent de la compétence interculturelle ainsi que les expériences nécessaires doivent être intégrés dans les cours d’études à l’étranger pour aider les étudiants à comprendre et à donner un sens à des dissonances cognitives que de telles expériences leur apportent. Ainsi, les devoirs doivent donc consciemment et intentionnellement trianguler l’apprentissage en tenant compte des lectures (documents à lire pour le cours), du vécu et des observations (conversations, interactions, activités, excursions, observations concernant la représentation publique de la culture, etc.) ainsi que de la comparaison (culture de son propre pays versus culture du pays hôte). L’objectif est d’améliorer les expériences des étudiants afin que les semestres à l’étranger soient toujours soldés par une expérience profonde, enrichissante et intellectuelle plutôt que d’être de simples séjours touristiques prolongés. Dans cet article, je documente le processus par lequel j’ai conçu et évalué, par le biais d’une analyse en profondeur des textes et des écrits des étudiants, la transformation des capacités et du développement des étudiants en matière de compétence intellectuelle. De plus, je compare les travaux des étudiants de deux semestres différents afin d’évaluer si la transformation en matière de compétence interculturelle est inhérente à la nature des études à l’étranger ou bien si elle doit être explicitement enseignée et cultivée. Mon projet d’avancement des connaissances en enseignement et en apprentissage (ACEA) a corroboré les recherches menées au cours de presque dix années qui confirment nos craintes : l’exposition à une autre culture n’est pas suffisante; le fait d’aller vivre et étudier à l’étranger ne mène pas nécessairement à un meilleur apprentissage interculturel. Les expériences d’études à l’étranger significatives, intégratives, chargées d’apprentissage et transformationnelles reposent sur l’aptitude des étudiants à donner un sens à la dissonance cognitive. Par conséquent, les devoirs qui portent sur la compétence interculturelle doivent être entièrement et intentionnellement conçus et intégrés à de telles expériences, et ils doivent être évalués pour documenter cette croissance.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.040
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.047

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.040
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.108
GPT teacher head0.436
Teacher spread0.329 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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