Collaborative Ethnographic Assessment: An Anthropological Rubric for a Community Ecosystem

Abstract

The ethnographic team of a community-based engineering project in South Bend, Indiana, continues to create modes of anthropological assessment while conducting collaborative research. The Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem (BCe2) is a National Science Foundation-funded project designed to restore and enhance a vital but polluted St. Joseph River tributary by linking the efforts of local community groups, schools, and universities in a revitalizing small city. This paper describes the impetus and creation of an ethnographic rubric for assessing community-based anthropological research towards potential replication in future collaborations. Based on a modification of Rapid Ethnographic Assessment (REA), used widely in environmental, medical, military, and other research applications, this paper offers an REA modification called Collaborative Ethnographic Assessment (CEA).

Digital rubric-based assessment of oral presentation competence with technological resources for preservice teachers

“…The expansion of learning for undergraduates has generated studies of continuous and progressive assessment with digital rubrics in engineering, medicine, ESTUDIOS SOBRE EDUCACIÓN / 2022 anthropology, education, and mathematics (among other subjects) (Cebrián-dela-Serna and Bergman 2014; Crawford et al, 2020;Haanstad, 2020;Houston and Thompson, 2017;Zheng et al, 2019). Such assessment is especially important in the preservice training of preservice teachers, due to the profession's exercise of the double role of assessor and assessed and their evolution (Pathak and Le Vasan, 2015), as well as the importance of oral presentation competence (Mulder, 2014;Pathak and Le Vasan, 2015;.…”