Wisdom in student assignments: Its operationalisation and manifestation
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Informing Science Institute, California
Faculty
Faculty of Business and Law
School
School of Management
RAS ID
5703
Abstract
The paper examines the presence of knowledge-related wisdom in student assignments by applying the constructs of wisdom developed by researchers at the Max Plank Institute for Human Development in Berlin. They are factual knowledge, procedural knowledge, contextualisation, relativism, and uncertainty. Reciprocal instructor wisdom was operationalised as intellectual excellence, inter-personal skills and experience. The manifestations of wisdom were observed in the completion of a case study requiring students to analyse IT benefit management practices. The findings of the study indicated satisfactory to good levels of factual and procedural knowledge, high levels of relativism but low levels of contextualisation and dealing with uncertainty. Even though previous research has shown the presence of wisdom at an early age, the findings of this student-oriented study should be pleasantly surprising to most academics.
Access Rights
Free_to_read
Comments
Fink, D. , & Garner, S. K. (2008). Wisdom in student assignments: its operationalisation and manifestation. Proceedings of Informing Science and Information Technology Education. Varna, Bulgaria. Informing Science Institute, California. Available here