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By 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hope to have eradicated poverty and inequality, protected the environment, and ensured everyone’s wellbeing, justice, and prosperity. The SDGs Report 2022 suggests that public knowledge of the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda is inadequate, especially at the community level. The educational assessment is one method that can be employed to raise awareness of the SDGs. Educators and organizations involved with education are divided as to whether the current assessment processes promote lifelong learning in students and whether assessment procedures are the most effective way to enhance learning and prepare students for the real world. To construct effective educational assessment plans in Malaysia, educators in higher education must have a complete understanding of learning outcomes as specified by the Malaysia Qualification Framework 2.0 (MQF 2.0). Students can apply their knowledge and abilities to ill-defined scenarios like those experienced in real life when adopting a comprehensive assessment strategy. This article is proposing an educational assessment design for Computer Programming module to create awareness on SDGs among Information technology undergraduate students.
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Che Abdul Rani, M.F., Kasinathan, V. (2023). Educational Assessment Design for Computer Programming Module to Create Awareness on Sustainability Development Goals Among Information Technology Undergraduate Students. In: Uden, L., Liberona, D. (eds) Learning Technology for Education Challenges. LTEC 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1830. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34754-2_10
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