Help us create a database of
systems thinking questions
Have you created questions for your classes to assess their
systems thinking conceptual abilities?
What do you use to see if you are getting relevant ST concepts across to
your students?
We would like to invite you all to join us in helping create
a database for systems thinking assessment questions. The System Dynamics Society
Precollege Special Interest Group is
gathering systems thinking assessment
questions from those who have constructed these questions for their own
work. We expect the questions could be
used by K-12 teachers and instructors of undergraduate courses. They also would provide an excellent resource
for researchers.
This effort began when Jon Darkow, a biology teacher from
Ohio, posted a question on the CLE listserv asking whether anyone had ST
questions that teachers could use to assess systems thinking concepts in their
classes. Chris Browne, professor from
Australia, responded that he was also interested in these types of assessment
questions. So the SDS Precollege SIG is
moving this effort forward by asking their members and others to submit one or
more questions to the Google form below.
We have found the paper “Assessing
the Effectiveness of Systems Thinking Interventions in the Classroom” by Hopper
and Stave (2008) a useful tool in framing questions. Table 9 from the paper
lays out the conceptual framework clearly. We encourage you to read it before
you submit your question(s). A sample of the questions on the Google form and
one example of a submission question is available for you.
Link for the assessment submission Google form:
https://forms.gle/6hhP2csJky8fexTRA
Those who submit a question will be able to get a copy of
all the questions submitted at regular intervals before the questions are
eventually made available through The Creative Learning Exchange.
Thank you in advance!
Diana Fisher, Lees Stuntz, Jon Darkow, Chris Browne, Anne
LaVigne