Posts Tagged ‘Educational Assessment’
August 8 - To Make Assessment Manageable Keep it Simple and Be Flexible
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment
Anyone with a 3-year-old knows one of their favorite words is “Why.” As it turns out, asking “why” is a good way to examine your assessment goals and how they align with your institution’s core values.
“My favorite assessment question is ‘Why’ and I ask it over and over again,” said Linda Suskie, president at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
June 21 - Educational Assessment: Designing a System for More Meaningful Results
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment, Free Reports
Making Sense of Higher Education Assessment Educational Assessment: Designing a System for More Meaningful Results Assessing institutional effectiveness is a noble pursuit, but measuring student learning is not always easy. As with so many things we try to quantify, there’s much more to learning than a number in a datasheet. When it comes to assessment.
May 5 - Summarizing and Using Assessment Results
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
You put a lot of hard work into creating student assessments. And then what? With all the time spent developing and administering assessments, it’s a shame not to reap the benefits of your efforts. This seminar will teach you how to summarize and use your assessment results.
May 4 - How Good Is Good Enough? Setting Benchmarks or Standards
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
More and more, assessments are playing a key role in your institution’s accreditation and funding. And more and more, they’re shaping your administration’s decisions about proper allocation of limited resources. This seminar will show you will show how to make sure your assessments are producing valid, meaningful measures of student success.
May 28 - Learning Outcomes Assessment Standards Revealed in Survey of Academic Leaders
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment
The Association of American Colleges and Universities released findings last month from a survey of its members that revealed trends in undergraduate education and documenting the widespread use of a variety of approaches to assessing learning outcomes. The survey shows that campus leaders are focused both on providing students a broad set of learning outcomes and assessing students’ achievement of these outcomes across the curriculum.
May 4 - Online Assessment: Tips on Rubrics, Discussion Boards and Gradebooks
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment, Online Education
Even the most experienced educators can feel overwhelmed when they teach their first hybrid or fully online course. On top of dealing with the time and space constraints of asynchronous learning, there are so many different tools to learn. Tools, it seems, that all of their students either know how to use or master very quickly.
March 30 - Faculty Love It, Just Don’t Call It Assessment
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment
In the corporate world, there’s long been talk of breaking down the workplace silos that often prevent true company-wide communication, collaboration, and growth. Now colleges are looking to get faculty out of their silos, as well. The catalyst? That old nemesis: learning outcomes assessment.
February 20 - Creating a Sustainable, Faculty-Driven Assessment Initiative
By: Rob Kelly in Educational Assessment
Meaningful program assessment requires faculty participation. The challenge of getting faculty involved and staying involved lies in convincing them that the benefits of educational assessment are worth any additional work it generates.
January 14 - Rethinking Multiple Choice Tests for Assessing Student Learning
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment, Teaching and Learning
If you think multiple choice tests are only good to assess how well students memorized facts, it may be time to rethink your testing strategy. Although they are not appropriate for every situation, when properly developed, multiple choice tests can used to assess higher levels of thinking, including application and analysis.
January 12 - Choosing a Published Instrument to Assess Student Learning: 2008
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Presented by Linda Suskie, vice president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, this seminar teaches you what questions you need to ask to determine whether published instruments should be part of your assessment program, and if so, which ones.
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.