Assessing the Adventure

Abstract

A significant series of prior writings in the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching project has focused on adventure learning. Here, the authors tackle a knotty series of assessment problems which adventure learning creates. Experiments at four different universities show that the practical problems are significant, but that they can be overcome. The authors offer a series of tools respectively suited to evaluation of the adventure learning experience itself, its outcomes, or a resulting but separate assignment.

For suggestions on how to carry out adventure learning on your campus, see http://ssrn.com/abstract=1916795.

Keywords: Negotiation, teaching, pedagogy, adventure, adventure learning, assessment, evaluation, grades, grading