Developing Worldview as a Learning Objective: A Rubric for Assessment of International Travel Programs

Jeanie Mannheimer Forray; Jill Woodilla

Developing Worldview as a Learning Objective: A Rubric for Assessment of International Travel Programs

Jeanie Mannheimer Forray

Western New England College, USA

Jill Woodilla

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Volume 4: 2009, pp. 251-268; ABSTRACT

This paper presents the concept of worldview and its relevance to business programs, and offers an assessment rubric for evaluating the extent to which travel/study courses used to internationalize the business curriculum are successful at developing students' worldview. Results from a pilot application of the rubric for program-related assessment using papers from three "international practicum"; experiences are presented, and we note ways in which student essays reflect development of worldview as a learning outcome of the experience.

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