Personal - Social Competence

Assessment type	Summative
Assessment method/tool	Art based assessment: My lyrics
Operationalisation (what is being assessed and why, how to conduct it)	The aim of this assessment tool is to help learners to reflect on their learning and their feelings about the learning through a more entertaining, funny and creative way. Through the specific tool the following learning outcomes will be assessed: Self – awareness Effective Communication Constructive Team working Why to use it? Benefits for participants and trainers: Encourage multiple ways of expression. Encourage participants to share their feelings. Express complex ideas. Self-assessment through creative ways. Lay the ground for more in-depth discussion. STEP 1 In pairs, the learners discuss with each other about how they feel about the course and reflect on what they think they have accomplished. Do they think they have gained self-awareness? Do they feel that they are now more able to work in teams and efficiently communicate with each other? Is it something that they would like to change or something that they feel it should have been done in a different way? They exchange points of views and they talk about pros and cons and how they feel about themselves after the course. STEP 2 After the discussion, they remain in pairs but this time they are asked individually to write down lyrics from a song that represents their thoughts and feelings about the course. They can use their phones to search for songs and lyrics. STEP 3 After everyone has finished, they show their pair the lyrics and they try to mix together and incorporate their lyrics in order to create a new song.
Remarks	This assessment tool can offer diverse information for the learner that can be gained by a high degree of interaction and provides the teacher/trainer with a well-rounded picture of the impact of the course for participants. Specifically, the teacher/trainer can assess: how the learning procedure is going how participants are feeling what might need to change The learners should be free to search and pick whatever lyrics they want to and they can create combinations. Nevertheless, it is important that they should focus on the assessment of the learning process and knowledge and skills acquired.