Higher Education Assessment Strategies for Measuring Learning Outcomes Put to the Test: Making Sense of Educational Assessment
Educational assessment is one of the most talked about topics in higher education today. Despite the admirable goal of improving student learning, the trend toward greater accountability through increased academic testing carries with it a diverse range of educational assessment tools, methodologies, perspectives, and stakeholders.
If today’s mandates for educational testing has you searching for answers, you’ll want to download this FREE special report Put to the Test: Making Sense of Educational Assessment, developed to share best practices and current thinking on educational assessment in higher education.
On one side of the educational assessment debate, you have faculty who feel all these new educational assessment requirements stifle their academic freedom without providing truly meaningful data to justify the additional workload it generates.
On the other side of the educational assessment debate are those educators who accept the fact that educational assessment is here to stay and believe that, with careful planning, it’s possible to design exactly the type of assessment systems needed to get an accurate picture of student learning outcomes.
No matter which side you’re on … or somewhere in between … you’ll find Put to the Test: Making Sense of Educational Assessment is a great resource for understanding the best practices and current thinking on educational assessment in higher education.
Here’s just a sample of the insightful articles featured in Put to the Test: Making Sense of Educational Assessment:
•Creating a Sustainable, Faculty-Driven Assessment Initiative
•Assessment for the Millennial Generation
•Rethinking Assessment
•What Is the Role of Student Affairs in Assessment?
•Encouraging Faculty Involvement in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
•Assessing Class Participation: One Useful Strategy
•Outcomes Assessment Is Here to Stay, Get Faculty Buy In
•Assessment Methods Should Match Institutional Goals
•“Assessmania” and “Bureaupathology” in Higher Education
•Manias, Pathologies, and Alternative Approaches to Assessment
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Whether you’re a new faculty member looking to incorporate assessment into your classes, or an experienced member of a departmental or institutional assessment team, this special report will provide you with valuable strategies and thought-provoking ideas from educators who have successfully implemented assessment programs at their institutions.
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Monday, February 8
A Checklist for Facilitating Online Courses - http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/distance-learning/a-checklist-for-facilitating-online-courses/?c=FF&t=F100212b
A new research-based tool developed at Humboldt State University, Assessing Online Facilitation (AOF) can serve as a valuable guide to best practices in online teaching. It lists the four main roles of an online facilitator – pedagogical, managerial, social, and technical – and the associated tasks of each role.
Tuesday, February 9
Political Bias in the Classroom: Perception and Reality - http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/trends-in-higher-education/political-bias-in-the-classroom-perception-and-reality/?c=FF&t=F100212b
The proper role a faculty member’s personal political ideology should play in the university classroom has been an issue of debate since Buckley published Man and God at Yale in 1951. Some groups feel that a pervasive liberal bias in higher education is threatening the value of students’ education. (Part one of a two-part series.)
Wednesday, February 10
Political Bias in the Classroom: Rethinking the Way You Teach - http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/trends-in-higher-education/political-bias-in-the-classroom-rethinking-the-way-you-teach/?c=FF&t=F100212b
While research suggests that professors’ political beliefs have no measurable effect on students, the perception of bias is no less real and may be affecting the credibility of higher education as a whole. Real or imagined, the professoriate needs to take the perception of political bias seriously and make steps to change this perception for the better. (Part two of a two-part series.)
Thursday, February 11
Sloan-C Survey Provides Snapshot of Online Learning - http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/sloan-c-survey-provides-snapshot-of-online-learning/?c=FF&t=F100212b
The Sloan-C Survey reveals that online enrollments rose by nearly 17 percent from the previous year. This annual survey is the leading barometer of online learning in the United States, and seeks to answer some of the fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education.
Friday, February 12
Help Your Students Become More Mindful Editors - http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/help-your-students-become-more-mindful-editors/?c=FF&t=F100212
For too many years, I toiled through student papers that were the editing equivalent of a badly scratched record. No more. Since I instituted my policy of not reading papers that don’t adhere to the prescribed checklist, students have uniformly done a much better job of editing.
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