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Moving Ahead with Learning Assessment
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.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Assessing the Degree of Learner-Centeredness
Since Barr and Tagg introduced the concept of the instructional versus the learner-centered paradigms in 1995, higher education institutions across the country have adopted the concept in one form or another in an attempt to create learning environments that respond both to the changing profile of our students and recent research on learning with the ultimate goal of improving student success.
Self-Assessment Does Not Necessarily Mean Self-Grading
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.
Portfolio System Provides Integrated Assessment across the Institution
In 2000, the college of education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) introduced an electronic portfolio system for its students. The goal was to get students to understand their own learning by requiring them to create these portfolios that highlight their work. Building on that success, the university is in the process of implementing myMAPP, (Mapping Academic Performance through ePorfolios), an electronic portfolio system that integrates student, faculty, staff, department, college, and campus performance measures.
Developing Tools and Strategies to Assess Student Learning: 2008
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.