Amanda Richman - Fanshawe College
Hi everyone,
I am
wondering if you can let me know if you have done a sustainability literacy
assessment at your College/University as per STARS. I am looking for some
guidance to develop one for Fanshawe and also look at how other colleges dealt
with the reassessment of the same cohort. Since we have a short turn around,
were you able to get decent feedback for a reassessment?
Thanks so
much for all of your input.
Hi Amanda,
Humber hasn’t done any literacy assessment to date. But if we were to,
we may look to aligning it with the attached assessment that is
worldwide. The short explanation is that there are a number of
institutions that have been working on a literacy assessment that could be done
worldwide to allow for greater comparisons across countries, etc. It is
in a pilot stage, and you will see that there are currently no questions for
the Canadian context yet, but there are some Canadian institutions that have
registered. And institution is being asked to contribute Canadian questions if
they like. I haven’t had the chance to share this with OCUSP yet, so your
email is timely.
I guess there are two things for you in this:
1) You could look at the
pilot literacy test as it is now and see if you’d like to use some of the
current questions
2) You could also
consider contributing some questions from a Canadian context (and anyone from
OCUSP could do that!)
Hopefully this is helpful. You can also contact the folks that sent
these emails to find out more as that is the basic understanding I have on it
at this time.
Sustainability Literacy Email Re: Sustainability Literacy Email
Sustainability Literacy Email Re: Sustainability Literacy Email
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Jonathan Rausseo - University of Ottawa
Hello
Amanda
We
have a very quick and dirty assessment that we have done here at uOttawa. It
doesn’t give much depth but it gives you a very good idea of what people know
about basic environmental sustainability issues.
You’ll
see the same survey twice in this attachment.