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Nicholas, Mark C. – Assessment Update, 2023
In this article, the author reflects upon the changes assessment professionals have faced because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Against the background of stressed faculty and staff and falling student enrollment, lower retention, and graduation rates, assessment professional must consider how to talk about the "quality" of student learning…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
Hundley, Stephen P. – Assessment Update, 2023
In this article, the author summarizes and discusses the five "Leadership Imperatives for Assessment Excellence": (1) Making assessment excellence a strategic institutional priority; (2) Attracting and retaining talent to support assessment excellence; (3) Developing sufficient capacity for assessment excellence; (4) Rewarding,…
Descriptors: Leadership, Evaluation, Guidelines, Educational Quality
Good, Megan R. – Assessment Update, 2023
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents a three part series on fixing assessments. In Part 1: "Assessment Standards are Broken," David Eubanks highlights the challenges with the assessment standards articulated by institutional accreditors. In this article, Part 2: Megan R. Good, discusses the opportunity costs faced and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Quality, Outcomes of Education, Student Evaluation
Welsh, Josephine A.; Roscoe, Douglas D. – Assessment Update, 2023
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents a three part series on fixing assessments. In Part 1, David Eubanks advocates for a collaborative model of assessment as the field enters a fourth decade of low return on investment. In Part 2, Megan R. Good laments the opportunity cost of continuing the define-measure-improve assessment model…
Descriptors: Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Methods, College Students, Outcomes of Education
Keith, Caleb J.; Good, Megan R. – Assessment Update, 2023
In this article, the authors report on the opportunity to share information with fellow members from institutional accrediting agencies at the "Initi8: Improving Ethical Reasoning at Scale" workshop facilitated by James Madison University, in June 2023. Helpful was the various viewpoints, perspectives, and musings of individuals engaged…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Accreditation (Institutions), Ethics, Expectation
Dunsworth, Richard L. – Assessment Update, 2023
In this article, Richard L Dunsworth, president of University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas, having spent 25 years in the roles of oversight as consultant evaluator, team chair, advisory team member, peer evaluator, and member of the board of trustees for the largest institutional accreditor in the United States faces the same struggle…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Administrator Attitudes, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Quality
Hundley, Stephen P., Ed. – Assessment Update, 2018
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) Capstone Assessment as Faculty Development (Rowanna L. Carpenter, Seanna M. Kerrigan, and Vicki L. Reitenauer); (2) Using a Doctoral Program Entrance Assessment: Reflections on a Pilot Program and the Admissions Process (Robyne Elder); (3) Highlights of the 2018 HEDS…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Higher Education, Faculty Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Hundley, Stephen P., Ed. – Assessment Update, 2018
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) Asking the Right Questions: Reflective Preparation for a Program Review (Corinne Renguette, Charles Feldhaus, and Elizabeth Wager; (2) The Neuroscience of Learning and Development: What Does That Mean for Assessment and Evaluation? (Marilee Bresciani Ludvik); (3)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Feedback (Response), Outcomes of Education