Using authentic assessment to enhance seafarer student engagement and their ability to transfer learning

Past research shows that seafarer employers are critical of some of the assessment methods adopted by the educators at maritime education and training institutes (METs) to assess the competence of seafarers. The criticisms included the failure to develop and assess the holistic skills required to deploy competence in a range of contexts. Moreover, the decontextualized scenarios used in assessment methods disengage students from the learning...