Assessment in the age of pandemic

Wow, what a semester.  Hats off to educators everywhere who have continued to engage their students through a whole new paradigm of teaching and learning. During this time I have been monitoring the listservs and getting emails from faculty at the college concerned about assessment projects.  So I’m going to offer my perspective on what to focus on this semester as we all shift to a new teaching and learning reality. Keep your focus on the students.  Help them move into an online environment that they may or may not have previously experienced, and continue to work to engage students in learning experiences.  This is the MOST IMPORTANT thing. If you have an assessment project that you were working on in your courses, program or department that translates to an online format, terrific!  Go ahead and capture the assessment data, but be sure and annotate in your data collection that the methodology and pedagogy of this semester was impacted. This Continue reading Assessment in the age of pandemic