Posts Tagged ‘educational assessment strategies’
July 11 - Creating a Campus Culture That Values Assessment
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that resistance to educational assessment comes from almost as many different sources as there are assessment tools, but in the end the reasons usually all boil down to three main issues:
- Lack of understanding of the value and importance of assessment
- Lack of resources to engage in assessment
- Fear of change and risk taking
June 1 - Moving Ahead with Learning Assessment
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Your assessments are a powerful tool, not a burdensome requirement. They generate valuable information about what works and what doesn’t at your school. Using that information to make decisions—about everything from curriculum and campus services to vision statements and goal setting to budgeting and development—substantiates your assessment program’s value.
May 4 - Keys to a Culture of Assessment: Value and Respect
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
We have long moved past the question of whether or even how to assess. Now the issue is how to analyze and apply the data. This seminar will provide concrete ideas and proven strategies for creating a healthy, collaborative, and respectful culture of assessment, success, and constant improvement on your campus.
June 18 - Self-Assessment Does Not Necessarily Mean Self-Grading
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Educational Assessment
Most faculty judiciously avoid having students self-assess because it seems hopelessly naïve to imagine them being able to look at anything beyond the desired grade. Even so, the ability to self-assess skills and completed work is important. Moreover, it is an ability acquired with practice and developed with feedback. It seems like the kind of skill that should be addressed in college. And perhaps there is a way.
May 11 - Learning Outcome Assessment: Creating a Systematic and Transparent Program
By: Gary A. Gigliotti, PhD in Educational Assessment
Faculty usually hold a set of beliefs that make the whole topic of learning outcome assessment seem boring, useless, or both.
April 22 - Giving Students Multiple Attempts to Improve Test Scores Provides a Powerful Learning Opportunity
By: Aimee Luebben, EdD. in Educational Assessment
Using multiple test trials was something I had never considered until found myself in a newly assigned course with an old syllabus. The previous course, which consisted of 310 total points, included 140 (45 percent) testing-based points. In addition to a 100-point final exam, there were four 10-point quizzes. I was intrigued by the quiz design format that allowed students to take the quiz up to three times over the course of a week, with the average score added to the grade book.
January 4 - Improving Your Assessment Processes: Q&A with Linda Suskie
By: Rob Kelly in Educational Assessment
It’s a new year, but the same old challenges exist. Given today’s financial challenges, colleges and universities are all working harder than ever to be careful stewards of limited resources and to demonstrate their effectiveness to stakeholders, constituents, and the public.
June 4 - General Education Programs Incorporate More Engaged, Integrative Learning Practices
By: Mary Bart in Curriculum Development
A survey released last month suggests that many colleges and universities are reforming their general education programs and developing new curricular approaches and educational assessment strategies for measuring key learning outcomes. As institutions review their general education programs, many are choosing to incorporate more engaged and integrative curricular practices.
February 23 - Information Literacy: Improving Student Research Skills in a Wikipedia World
By: Mary Bart in Curriculum Development, Effective Teaching Strategies, Teaching and Learning
When you assign your students to write a paper, do they know where to start? Upperclassmen surely do, but what about freshmen? Left to their own devices, they’ll likely turn to Google and Wikipedia as their main research tools, and may never even set foot in the library if they can help it.
January 13 - Developing Tools and Strategies to Assess Student Learning: 2008
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Educators have at their disposal a wide variety of educational assessment tools to measure student learning outcomes. From published instruments to locally developed assessments, each has its place in higher education and in your assessment toolbox. This seminar will teach you how to develop your own tools and strategies to assess learning.
Linda is an internationally recognized speaker, writer, workshop facilitator, and consultant on a broad variety of higher education assessment topics. Her latest book is the second edition of Assessment of Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide (Jossey-Bass). Among her other publications are Assessment to Promote Deep Learning (Stylus) and Questionnaire Survey Research: What Works (Association for Institutional Research). She is a Vice President at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, an accreditor of colleges and universities in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.