Scenario-based Assessment: Overview

Scenario-based assessment helps computing students examine professional dispositions through realistic narratives that mirror workplace challenges and decision-making contexts. This resource explains how instructors can use concise written, visual, or video scenarios to prompt reflection, support classroom discussion, and assess students’ understanding of dispositions such as teamwork, ethics, initiative, and lifelong learning. Instructors can adapt the scenarios for multiple-choice assessments, follow-up reasoning prompts, or discussion-based activities that reveal how students interpret professional behavior in computing contexts.