Estimated Levels of Time and Energy Required for:
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Pages: |
| Faculty to prepare to use this CAT |
Low |
267-270 |
| Students to respond to the assessment |
High |
| Faculty to analyze the data collected | High |
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| Description |
"This straightforward technique requires that students write a brief, focused profile of an individual – in a field related to the course – whose values, skills, or actions they greatly admire. For example, each student in a social work course might be asked to write a one-page profile of a social worker whom that student particularly admires."
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| Purpose | "This technique assesses what students value by asking them (1) to select and profile an individual in the field whose values and behavior they admire and (2) to explain what they find admirable about that individual and why. This information can help faculty understand the images and values students associate with the best practice and practitioners in the discipline under study. Profiles of Admirable Individuals also force students to assess their own values. And feedback on the responses of other students helps them realize that, in any classroom, there will be several different sets of values in play." — Classroom Assessment Techniques, Angelo, TA and Cross, KP, 1993 |