Ending casual approaches to assessment

“We’ve got to end casual, undisciplined approaches to learning and assessment.” –Paul Lingenfelter, president of the State Higher Education Executive Officers. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/27/aacu

Wiki Page for the Self-Study Review Process

From: Joshua Yeidel Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:40:52 -0800 To: OAI messages Subject: Self-Study Review Process Wiki Page OAI folks, In the course of working through the December Self-Study cycle, we have developed a lot of informal knowledge about the process of handling Self-Study Reviews.  Now it is time to capture and preserve that [...]

HEC Board Report (Feb 25, 2010)

Sent and accepted by WSU administration…. attached report  HEC Board Outcomes Report (March 2010 FINAL)

Update for Program Points on Assessment Status

A sample reminder for programs falling behind in the assessment work: Just a quick note to catch up.  I last recall you were working on an assessment planning report, and we had talked about what we thought was a pretty good plan.  Let us know if there is more we can do to help you [...]

Updated OAI web presence

The OAI website is updated along with new landing page for UniversityPortfolio/2009-2010 (the ‘dirdash’ page) that provides summary data from the Dec 18 self-study effort. In addition, preparations are in place for the ‘May Folder’ with materials for writing the May self-study and a more general ‘Resources folder’ for Outcomes Assessment resources not related to [...]

Faculty Senate

At Faculty Senate, Thursday, February 18th, concerns were expressed about the assessment initiative.  The concerns largely reflected, we are informed, questions about who was being asked to do this. On Monday, February 22nd, we have been invited to provide a report.  I have proposed we share the HEC Board report we are preparing this week.

Program Reactions to Self-Study Feedback

Program Reactions to Self-Study Feedback I met with a program that expressed feeling frustrated and demoralized by the OAI feedback on their self-study.  They wanted to know what the penalties were for programs that didn’t provide assessment self-studies.  They asked that the results be transparent; that there be consequences for non-compliant programs as well as [...]

DML Competition entries

I realized we were at risk of losing our DML Competition entries as their process progresses. The competition is interesting in that it runs in rounds and accepts crowd-source as well as expert feedback in the process. In January we submitted an initial proposal (below). Then used the opportunity of making a revision to mock-up [...]

More Back@U mockups and an example application

We just discovered that Jason B. Jones has a proof of concept mashup of a Google form with Diigo using a Firefox extension to put both on a split screen. The emphasis seems to be more on grading, but it has a nice place to give suggestions for future work. We had previously tried making [...]

DML Competition Partnering Possiblilties

The MacAurther Funded, HASTAC managed DML competition has entered its next round. We found several potential partners in the January round, and there are other potentials among the first round entrants, and perhaps some new potential partners in the round two entrants. To help would-be partners visualize how our project might interact with theirs, we [...]