Transformative Assessment Project Next Steps

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Transformative Assessment Project Next Steps

• Consultation with CNI Fall 2003 Task Force
  Meeting Attendees

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Session objectives

• Share information on the Transformative
  Assessment Project/our perspective on assessment
• Understand the landscape a bit from other
  attendees perspectives
• Consult with attendees on potential next steps
  for TAP

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Introductions

• Could you tell us your name, institution, and
• a little bit about an institutional assessment
  project you are working on
• OR what interested you in this session (what you
  were hoping to gain by participating)?

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NLII Initiative of EDUCAUSE Mission use
technology to enable

• Education that is . . .
• Active and Learner-Centered
• Dynamic Lifelong
• Collaborative
• Cost Effective
• Accessible
• High Quality

For more information, see http//www.educause.edu/
nlii
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Transformative Assessment Project

• Three-year project
• Partnership of NLII, TLT Group, CNI, WSU, AAHE
• Designed to
• elicit new ideas about assessment practices and
  systems that will transform teaching and learning
• help institutions of higher education put these
  ideas into action
• See
• http//www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes/transformat
  ive.asp

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Purpose of TAP

• Create tools to support teams from institutions
  that
• are involved in significant institutional
  improvement of teaching and learning with
  technology
• use assessment in a variety of ways to guide and
  support that effort
• share a commitment to the purposeful application
  of assessment and dissemination of assessment
  results to support deep change.

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Your turn again

• Share an assessment a-ha, or high point (most
  successful, most engaged, most clear about
  purpose) for current, past or even future
  (imagined) project

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Any common denominators?
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The TAP a-has the key questions

• What is transformation?
• How does it comes about?
• What is the relationship between assessment
  transformation?
• What are some effective strategies for developing
  a transformative assessment program?
• What are some processes for developing such a
  program?

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What is transformation?

• Emergent from institutional vision, mission,
  culture context
• Focused on learning outcomes, processes and
  purposes (honors learners learning)
• Qualitative
• Large-scale, systemic, contagious catalytic
• Enabled by the intelligent and appropriate use of
  technology
• Informed by assessment a commitment to
  data-driven decision-making

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What is transformation, cont.

• Based upon iterative, collaborative generation
  and refinement of an institutional conceptual
  framework that articulates and communicates a
  shared institutional understanding

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Conceptual framework

• Expresses an authentic institutional mission with
  regard to teaching and learning
• Reflects faculty educational values informed by
  the science of learning
• Articulates the relationships among learning,
  teaching, course/program/service development,
  application of technology, and institutional and
  community organization

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TAP Work Products

• White paper
• http//www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NLI0348.pdf
  
• Transformative Assessment Rubric
• http//www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EDU0251.pdf
  
• Three Focus sessions (see particularly Summer
  2003 focus session)
• http//www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings/nlii033/
• Team-Based Transformative Assessment planning
  process
• READY System branches (Alignment in
  Planning/Transformative Assessment)
• http//www.educause.edu/ready
• New Academy Virtual Community of Practice (VCOP)
• http//www.educause.edu/vcop/new_academy.asp

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Possible Next Steps

• Refine and package current work products (form,
  additional attributes, accessibility)
• Learning object wrapped around by a productive
  activity

• Refine/extend the process for developing
  conceptual framework
• VCOP Approach CFP for institutional teams
  outputs case studies effective practices

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Consultation

• What could the TAP team do that would be most
  helpful in advancing your institutional
  assessment project?
• What could the TAP team do that would be most
  helpful in advancing practice?

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Contact Information

• TAP Team Contacts
• WSU - Gary Brown (browng_at_wsu.edu)
• AAHE - Darren Cambridge (dcambridge_at_educause.edu
• CNI - Joan Lippincott (joan_at_cni.org)
• NLII - Vicki Suter (vsuter_at_educause.edu)
• TLT Steve Ehrmann (ehrmann_at_tltgroup.org)
• BOOKMARK
• http//www.educause.edu/nlii
• http//www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings
• http//www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes/transformat
  ive.asp
• http//www.educause.edu/vcop/new_academy.asp