Exploring Learning Effectiveness in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): Identifying Emerging Sustainability Competencies: A Case Study

This study aims to investigate students’ learning effectiveness by identifying the emergence of Rounder Sense of Purpose (RSP) sustainability competencies in the curriculum of a 3rd year B.Ed. course in Thailand titled Literary Works for English Language Teaching. This research adopts the New World Kirkpatrick Model (NWKM) as a framework to evaluate students’ learning using the RSP competency-based approach. The research proposes a competency-based framework of assessment, which adopts the RSP framework and adapts NWKM, to identify and evaluate salient ESD competencies in pre-service teacher education. The empirical findings can be applied to evaluate ESD competencies in Educational Studies curricula. Due to the lack of research regarding competency evaluation frameworks, it could be an effective assessment tool for evaluating ESD competency attainment in Tertiary Education for pre-service teachers.