Measuring System Competence in Education for Sustainable Development

Autor: Rainer Mehren, Johannes Hartig, Nina Roczen, Frank Fischer, Janis Fögele
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Nordrhein-Westfalen
School year 09
School year 08
assessment
Geography
Planning and Development
Comprehensive secondary school
German non-academic secondary school
Systemkompetenz
Realschule
370 Erziehung
Schul- und Bildungswesen
Field (computer science)
Renewable energy sources
0504 sociology
Sustainable development
Germany
Empirische Bildungsforschung
sustainable development goals (SDGs)
GE1-350
Dimension (data warehouse)
Secondary school
North Rhine-Westphalia
Reliability (statistics)
Iterative and incremental development
Environmental effects of industries and plants
indicator
05 social sciences
050301 education
Confirmatory factor analysis
Test (assessment)
Gymnasium
Testentwicklung
370 Education
Gesamtschule
Education for Sustainable Development
Erziehung
Schul- und Bildungswesen
TJ807-830
Assessment
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
TD194-195
Education
Judgment
ddc:370
Test format
Hessen
Messung
Deutschland
Competence (human resources)
North-Rhine Westphalia
Schuljahr 08
Schuljahr 09
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
Nachhaltige Entwicklung
050401 social sciences methods
Education for sustainable development
German academic secondary school
Environmental sciences
Engineering management
monitoring
Grammar School
system competence
Judgement
Intermediate school
Hauptschule
Bayern
Bewertung
Comprehensive school
0503 education
Bildung
Zdroj: Sustainability
Volume 13
Issue 9
Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 4932, p 4932 (2021)
Sustainability 13 (2021) 9, 15 S.
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su13094932
Popis: This paper presents the development of an instrument for the assessment of system competence in the field of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Based on an already existing, more complex model of system competence for the school subject geography, we have developed a test that refers to central themes and principles of ESD using exclusively closed answer formats. Building on the results of cognitive laboratories and expert feedback from various fields, the instrument was (further) developed in an iterative process of feedback and revision. We conducted a quantitative pilot study with N = 366 8th and 9th grade students. The results indicate that the development of our system competence test was successful—the overall test yielded a high reliability and only very few items were not working as intended. Furthermore, the difficulties of the items were appropriate for the ability levels of the students and the results of a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) suggest that the newly developed test measures system competence with one dimension. As the test is compact, easy to interpret, and yet reliable, it is particularly suitable for monitoring purposes in the field of ESD.
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