For their final exam, students in a Firm Analysis and Strategy course in the Masters in Environment and Sustainability Management program will have participated in a three-hour competitive simulation. In this exam, students represented real firms in an interactive competitive exercise in which they formulated, presented, defended, and refined a firm’s business strategy. Students applied tools, frameworks, and concepts that they had worked with during the course.
This session will relate the experience of this assessment approach, and solicit participant feedback and suggestions for refinement. Core areas to be addressed are the effectiveness of authentic experiences as evaluation tools, ways to thoroughly assess students' mastery of course concepts (both in theory and practice), and how to make such assessment vehicles scalable across academic programs. Intended audience members include faculty members, program administrators, and curriculum designers who are interested in contributing to the critique and further development of this type of assessment tool.
Associate Professor and Academic Director, Masters in Management Program, Georgetown University
Dr. Kenneth Sawka is an Associate Teaching Professor in the McDonough School of Business. His academic and professional interests center on competitive and business intelligence, competitive strategy, and leader succession practices. Ken possesses more than 30 years of professional... Read More →
