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Recent Posts
- Moving Out and On: Illinois Students at Out-of-State Colleges April 20, 2018
- An Insider’s Take on Assessment Reaction January 16, 2018
- Incorporating Design Principles in Writing Student Learning Outcomes December 11, 2017
- Learning Goals, Objectives, & Outcomes: They’re All the Same December 8, 2017
- Wayfinding & Curriculum Mapping in Higher Education December 6, 2017
- Assessment and Stories We Tell Students April 24, 2017
- Bunking & Debunking Altucher’s 15 Essential Skills They Don’t Teach in College April 11, 2017
- Illinois High School Graduates and Out-of-State Colleges July 21, 2016
- End Planning and Start Storytelling with Learning Outcomes May 5, 2016
- Best Practice and Kind-of-Best-Practice Guidelines for Writing Learning Outcomes May 5, 2016
- Do We Really Need Student Learning Outcomes? March 2, 2016
- Assessment Planning and Decision-making: The Problems with Assessment Frameworks August 31, 2015
- Junk Assessment and Junk Miles: Quit Worrying About Assessment August 27, 2015
- Assessment and Evaluation Distinctions August 26, 2015
- Shadow & Genuine Assessment October 14, 2014
- Getting Assessment Results Off the Shelf: The Where and the When of Assessment October 14, 2014
- Serendipitous Assessment September 17, 2014
- Differentiating Between Levels of Assessment: Program Goals and Learning Outcomes September 17, 2014
- Where Assessment Works Best September 17, 2014
- Making Assessment Useful: Why People Are Really Bad At Using Results for Decision-Making September 17, 2014
- Getting Organized with Assessment – A Framework September 17, 2014
- Survey Guidelines, Part 3: The Social Context of Surveys September 17, 2014
- Survey Guidelines, Part 2: Survey Questions September 17, 2014
- Survey Guidelines, Part 1: Survey Design September 17, 2014
Category Archives: Culture
Do We Really Need Student Learning Outcomes?
I made it to the end of my junior year of college without picking a major. It never really occurred to me to pick one. But I did know what I liked to do – drawing, writing, reading, baseball statistics, … Continue reading
Assessment Planning and Decision-making: The Problems with Assessment Frameworks
Nearly everyone has an assessment framework that symbolizes how assessment does or should work. I haven’t viewed all of them. But I’ve seen a lot. And most of them look the same. In the book Reason & Rigor: How Conceptual … Continue reading
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Junk Assessment and Junk Miles: Quit Worrying About Assessment
Junk Miles On a recent long bike ride in the countryside of Illinois, I was concentrating on my training regimen and my mind wandered to assessment. Not something most normal people do, but it’s my job. Thinking about challenges associated … Continue reading
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Shadow & Genuine Assessment
Shadow assessment occurs when programs focus on what they think other people want to hear, as opposed to what is practical and meaningful for them. There are many reasons why programs engage in shadow assessment: – Fear of assessment and … Continue reading
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Serendipitous Assessment
An Art History major in college, I never felt confident in science and math (although I later liked learning statistics). In my senior year, I needed one more hour of science. I discovered an obscure one hour course in the … Continue reading
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Where Assessment Works Best
(Originally posted: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014) In Strategic Planning for Non-profits, John Bryson states that strategic planning works best at places that need it the least, and worst at places that need it the most. The message is that if … Continue reading
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Making Assessment Useful: Why People Are Really Bad At Using Results for Decision-Making
(Originally posted: Friday, January 24th, 2014) One of the most common challenges people face in assessment and planning is use. Some or maybe many programs go through a lot of work to gather data, talk in meetings, and sit through … Continue reading
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