Five things I learned at the Assessment Institute
Darla Green, Professor, Interior Design / College Success Questions to ponder: How do you teach the successful ability to change? How do we teach and assess emotional intelligence, empathy, flexible thinking? ePortfolios are more than just a capstone project. If we teach students how to create, evaluate and reflect on materials for a learning portfolio from day one, students will have not only a record of their learning, but will also have learned how to implement their portfolio for job seeking. Purposeful assessment in online courses means including the “why” an assignment is important. Explaining how this assignment will relate to the real world. Be concise yet fully explain the why. We need to tell our learning improvement stories – not our assessment tool stories. Assessment failure is an option! Don’t fear the failure, it is a learning opportunity not a failure. Sheri Barrett, Director, Assessment, Evaluation and Institutional Outcomes “A pig never fattens because it is weighed.” Translation for that saying Continue reading Five things I learned at the Assessment Institute