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Formative Assessment: Closing the Feedback Gap

carlyzufelt

Mar 19, 2022
8 min

Formative Assessment: Closing the Feedback Gap

While few would argue the importance of feedback in the learning process, this is still an area that could use considerable improvement...

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carlyzufelt

Feb 25, 2022
2 min

Computer-Mediated Assessment Feedback

Internet technologies allow free access to an ever-growing catalog of high-quality learning materials. From TED Talks to MOOCs to Khan...

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Two Key Principles of Sustainable Assessment Practices

carlyzufelt

Aug 15, 2021
2 min

Two Key Principles of Sustainable Assessment Practices

The sustained assessment of student learning is the most effective means of ensuring the delivery of an institution's mission. The hard...

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carlyzufelt

Jul 28, 2021
3 min

Assessing Improvements

While improvement should be the intent behind assessment practices in higher education, the subsequent assessment of the implemented...

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Ensuring Educational Quality: Assessment in Five Levels

carlyzufelt

Jul 5, 2021
3 min

Ensuring Educational Quality: Assessment in Five Levels

Every college and university has a mission, and every program and course has intended outcomes, but without assessment, all of these...

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carlyzufelt

Jun 13, 2021
2 min

Assessment: Beyond Compliance

Since the dawn of the "assessment movement" in higher education in the 1980s, pinning down a broadly shared concrete definition has...

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Resources

Organizations

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)

The Assessment Institute in Indianapolis

The Association for Institutional Research (AIR)

Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) at the Association of American Colleges & Universities

Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE)

The Center for Assessment and Research Studies (CARS)

Research & Practice in Assessment (RPA)

Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS)

Books

Trends in Assessment: Ideas, Opportunities, and Issues for Higher Education (2019), edited by Stephen P. Hundley and Susan Kahn

Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide (2018), by Linda Suskie

Assessment Essentials: Planning, Implementing, and Improving Assessment in Higher Education (2015), by Trudy W. Banta and Catherine A. Palomba

Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education (2015), by George D. Kuh et. al.

Assessing for Learning: Building a Sustainable Commitment Across the Institution (2010), by Peggy Maki

Levels of Assessment: From the Student to the Institution (2005), by Ross Miller and Andrea Leskes

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