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Direct linkGesele E. Durham; Sheena G. Serslev; Matthew DeSantis – Assessment Update, 2024
The George Mason University (Mason) offices responsible for institutional reporting and assessment were merged to strengthen and solidify their functions and expertise. The organizational structure creating the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning (OIEP) was intended to engineer a new paradigm where assessment would inform the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, College Outcomes Assessment
Ober, Teresa M.; Xu, Xiangyu; Kane, Emily; Hong, Maxwell; Cheng, Ying – Assessment Update, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted assessment of student learning. A shift from in-person to a fully online and remote instruction format occurred at many institutions of higher education soon after the World Health Organization announced the pandemic status in mid-March of 2020 (WHO 2021). Even after the 2019-2020 academic year, many college courses…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, College Faculty, COVID-19, Pandemics
Reneau, Franz H. – Assessment Update, 2023
In this article, the author revisits and expands on the insights shared during a panel discussion at the 2022 Assessment Institute, with a focus on exploring and perhaps challenging thinking around what assessment is, how this work is viewed by many stakeholders critical to the assessment process, and the "feast or famine" conditions…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Change
Assessment Update, 2013
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) Origins of the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy; (2) Editor's Notes: Parallel Paths to Progress in Assessment in Europe and the United States; (3) The Impact of the First Three Years of the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy; (4) Restructuring the Writing Program at…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Trends, Educational Practices, Educational History
Banta, Trudy W., Ed. – Assessment Update, 2012
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1)
Closing the Loop: How an Assessment Project Paved the Way for GE Reform (Joan Hawthorne and Anne Kelsch); (2) Value-Added? Committing to Quality: Guidelines for Assessment and Accountability in Higher Education (David C. Paris); (3) Creating a Cadre of Assessment…
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Change, College Outcomes Assessment, Accountability
Harris, Michael; Cullen, Roxanne – Assessment Update, 2008
In considering the issue of transforming higher education, people tend to think of the university in the abstract: the idea of providing education and what that means in these changing times. The authors suggest that the physical university should also be considered. At Ferris State University, educators have made a comprehensive effort to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Professional Development, Educational Facilities Improvement, School Space
Belcher, Alan R. – Assessment Update, 2005
In 1998, the University of Charleston implemented an academic transformation, moving to an outcomes-based learning environment in which the university awards academic credit based on competences mastered rather than courses completed. That fall, for the first time, students no longer took introductory courses in composition, speech, and computing.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Introductory Courses, Writing (Composition), Evaluation Methods
