Thanks to its robust framework and data interpretation models, TASK™ has recently been recognized as a trustworthy tool for demonstrating impact by several ranking and accreditation bodies.
As users of TASK™, you can successfully answer to the criteria or questions highlighted below:
Times Higher Education Impact Ranking:
- Times Higher Education creates rankings to assess higher education institutions’ performances on the SDGs and to provide a resource for readers to understand the different missions and successes of higher education institutions.
- Their rankings include three core missions of higher education: research, teaching, and impact.
- A university’s total score within a given year is calculated by combining an obligatory evaluation of their performance in SDG17, with its three best results on any of the remaining 16 SDGs on which it opts to report.
How they ask about sustainability knowledge assessment?
Under SDG 17, newly added Criteria 17.4.4 asks:
- Are you assessing the sustainability literacy of your students?
- If yes, are you using Sulitest TASK™, or another system?
- What proportion of your student population is assessed?
- Data collection: from September 16th to November the 11th 2024 (open now!)
QS Sustainability Ranking
- The QS Sustainability Rankings aim to provide students with insights on how institutions are demonstrating commitment to a more sustainable world.
How they ask about sustainability knowledge assessment?
Under “Environmental Sustainability”, QS asks:
- Are you assessing the sustainability literacy of your students?
- If yes, are you using Sulitest TASK™, or another system?
- Data collection: from February until mid-April
AASHE STARS
- AASHE’s flagship program STARS (the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System), is a comprehensive framework for colleges and universities to measure and self-report their sustainability performance.
How they ask about sustainability knowledge assessment?
Under the Academic section, STARS includes:
- AC6 - Sustainability Assessment: maximum points available for institutions administering a pre- and post-assessment to the entire student body or, at minimum, to the institution’s predominant student body (e.g., all undergraduate students), directly or by representative sample.
- Data collection: ongoing