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Proficiency for Assessment in Quality Education: Internalization of Values of Sustainability

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Proficiency for assessment is becoming proficient in a variety of methods or tools used to measure learning progress and skills acquisition. Becoming proficient will not limit to the user’s expertise or efficiency in using a method or tool of assessment but in effectively using it for the correct purpose. In quality education, exposure to knowledge will not be sufficient to support the Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SGD4), Target 4.1: “by 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes” as introduced by United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA). “Proficiency for assessment” will play a major role in assuring of attaining the “effective learning outcomes” (UN-DESA), to develop knowledge, skills, and attitude up to internalizing the values of the concept of sustainability in a student.

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    Kamani Sylva

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

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  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

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Sylva, K. (2019). Proficiency for Assessment in Quality Education: Internalization of Values of Sustainability. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Quality Education. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69902-8_73-1

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