The start of a new year is always an exciting time; the beginning of something fresh and new. At least as of New Year’s day I hadn’t done anything yet to mess up my new year – I count that as success.
In the new year we make resolutions and promises to ourselves of things we will do “right” this year. I’m going to clear out my attic and make more healthy home-cooked meals. I did not make a resolution about losing 15 pounds; that’s like a lifelong commitment!
However, thinking about new year resolutions makes me wonder what types of resolutions might be made about assessment practices. Below are a few of the ones I thought about, what can you add to the list?
- I resolve to take a look at my assessment results and do a trend analysis of all the data I’ve collected and ignored for the last 3 years.
- I resolve to align my assessment instrument to my course objectives and program goals.
- I resolve to share my assessment results at the next department meeting and talk about their impact on our curriculum.
- I resolve to attend some of the assessment activities this semester.
- I resolve to meet with the assessment office to talk about next steps with my data.
- I resolve to actually participate in the assessment activities in my program!
So what’s on your list?