Transparency, institutional self-presentation, and public interest

From November/December 2010 Change, “Here’s looking at you:  Transparency, institutional self-presentation, and the public interest” by Alexander C. McCormick (Director of NSSE at Indiana, Bloomington), pp. 35-43.   “But transparency can be about more than consumer information.  It can provide an opportunity for a college or university to proclaim its success while acknowledging that it [...]

Migrating a SharePoint blog to Hosted WordPress

I needed to migrate a SharePoint blog to hosted WordPress (this blog, category RKChronicle), and after a bit of searching assembled this solution: SharePoint to Excel, Excel to CSV file, CSV imported to WP (3rd party host), WP export to WP (hosted) import. Recipe SharePoint to MSExcel. Using Internet Explorer under Windows, in the SharePoint [...]

Developing WSU’s Guide to Effective Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Rubric

The table below charts the steps that Washington State University’s Office of Assessment and Innovation (OAI) and its stakeholders went through to develop the Guide to Effective Program Assessment rubric used in the WSU System of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment. Description Generalized Model Specific example of application at WSU’s Office of Assessment and Innovation. Determine [...]

WSU System for Student Learning Outcomes Assessement

WSU’s Federated System of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment 2009-10 The WSU system is a federated one, premised on the need for programs to tailor assessment to their particular circumstances and context, yet coordinate with the central effort. The first fruits of the system are in the University’s 2009-10 portfolio of its assessment and accreditation work. [...]

Rubric revision process

With the NWCCU report filed we turned to some assessment of our inter-rater reliability, viewing that as an opportunity to understand what might be differences in our shared understandings. These may be rubric elements or interpretations of rubric language. This google doc is the space where we are looking at that rating data and recording [...]