Tag: assessment

Campus Assessment: It’s On!

There’s a big push to implement assessment on this campus, and while you might think this only concerns faculty, students can play a very important part in this. How are we to know what we’re awful at without students letting us know? How can we tell what’s improving unless we know how bad it started?  Student input is so essential, and if you have any interest in what we’re trying to get done here, you can always flip through a book like Educational Assessment in the 21st Century.

Of course, if you’re a faculty member, these materials are critical to establishing a positive environment for assessment on campus.  For that, check out our LibGuides for a run-down on our material.

Book of the Day

Pay attention, faculty:  You’ve been given the task to improve and implement your individual and departmental assessment.  Lucky for you, the library’s backed this with a preemptive strike and ordered a load of assessment-related material.  The one featured, Assessment Clear and Simple by Barbara Woolvard, is designed specifically to help educators alter habits, behaviors, and curriculum to better gauge their own performance, their department’s performance as a whole, and can be used to aggregate it all into the overall institution. And there are plenty more, educatation-specific and otherwise.

So get reading, impress a dean, impress your supervisor, and get your department assess..erizing?  Sounds good enough…