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implies a strong focus on and support of
students’ competency development. This
TU/e coaching role is also referred to as
faculty coach.
Assignor and lecture
Assignors and lecturers facilitate, support
and enhance student learning in the
context of specific learning activities:
assignments, modules and classes.
These learning activities mostly address
one or two particular competency
areas, though classes also address the
interaction between the outer and inner
circles. Assignors and lecturers support
and enhance students’ acquisition of
specific knowledge and skills, framed
within a particular competency area as a
whole.
Within this context, assignors and
lecturers perform the role of expert.
They support students in achieving
awareness or depth (assignments), or
expertise (modules and classes). They
also provide students with pointers as
to how to transfer a particular approach
or view to projects or other learning
activities, so students can build up
awareness, depth or expertise in various
contexts. At the scheduled meeting with
students, they discuss ‘content’ (specific
knowledge and skills), relate this to the
competency area(s) as a whole, and give
students feedback on their progress and
achievement within the assignment,
module or class. Assignors and lecturers
provide students with feedback on the
quality of their deliverables, (design)
process, competency development and
attitude from an expert point of view.
Expert
The role of expert is comparable to the
role of assignor or lecturer. An essential
difference is that experts do not have
their ‘own’ learning activities in the
programme.
Instead, students themselves have to
contact them if they need consultancy
from an expert, mostly in the context
of the project they are doing. Students
should only contact an expert after
thorough preparation so they can get
the most out of their meeting with
the expert and do not claim time for
vague questions or for information they
can easily retrieve themselves. From
the second year onwards, students
should really involve experts in their
projects to achieve depth or expertise in
particular competency areas and in their
deliverables.
Assessor
The role of assessor focuses on
evaluating the developmental stage
which a student has achieved at
a particular moment, framed by
the student’s history as a designer
(development up to that point) and the
student’s ambitions (long-term-goals for
growth as a designer). The perspective
from which a staff member performs
this role is holistic and independent.
Independent in this context means that
the assessor has not been the student’s
coach in the semester concerned, so has
not been involved in the process of the
student’s development.
The assessor examines the student’s