Assessment Tools and Performance Indicators for HEI Environmental and Sustainable Development Education

Abstract

Environmental education began to be implemented at universities to educate future generations and ensuring that economic and social development could apply sustainability standards. Therefore, the evaluation of this scenario goes through the choice of performance measures. Thus, this study focuses on (1) identifying the main sustainability assessment tools in higher education and (2) developing an indicator framework for the aspect of environmental education. With a descriptive character and qualitative approach, this bibliographic research used, as an instrument of intervention, the methodology ProKnow-C, to select the Bibliographic Portfolio (PB), composed of 58 scientific articles. After BP analysis, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) tool and the Graphical Assessment of Sustainability in Universities (GASU) tool stood out among the models applied in sustainability reports, the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) highlighted between the HEI-specific assessment tools and the Auditing Instrument for Sustainability in Higher Education (AISHE) and Sustainability Tool for Assessing Universities’ Curricula Holistically (STAUNCH) tools stood out in the educational dimension. The framework, consisting of 124 indicators can be used as an audit tool.