Assessment of Water Conservation Education

Leading scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies have concluded that it is essential that students need to be taught in a learning environment that enables them to acquire real-world problem-solving skills. The 21^st century workplace does not need employees who have just mastered a particular body of information, instead it prefers to have liberally educated workforce who have mastered written and oral communication skills in addition to acquiring knowledge in their chosen discipline. Educators should not allow the students to wonder whether they have been learning anything that would actually serve them in the workplace, upon graduation. It is also important to recognize that state legislatures have introduced and are in the processes of introducing demands for outcome assessment. In this paper the author outlines how assessment techniques he has generated, can help an instructor in promoting a learning environment. Furthermore, he also provides initial results of his findings pertaining to assessment data he has collected.