WEBINAR 1 of 6: Assessment Paper Pusher to Improvement Hero: The Journey Begins
In this first installment of the Evolving from Assessment to Learning Improvement Webinar Series, Fulcher and Good challenge attendees to take a hard look at assessment. Despite lip service to the contrary, higher education has little evidence of learning improvement resulting from assessment. This webinar orients the audience to more functional ways to align assessment with improvement and provides teasers of the upcoming webinars.
About the Webinar Series - Evolving from Assessment to Learning Improvement:
Weave has partnered with James Madison University’s Center for Assessment and Research Studies and Virginia Assessment Group’s Journal of Research and Practice in Assessment to bring you a most impactful webinar series!
For over six months, a team of well-known practitioners has been preparing for this event. After many meaningful conversations about what actionable steps can be taken to use assessment to impact learning, these leaders have put together six sessions to share ways institutions can be sure their assessment work is leading to authentic learning improvement.
About our Presenters:
Dr. Keston Fulcher
Executive Director of the Center for Assessment and Research Studies and Professor in Graduate Psychology at James Madison University (JMU).
JMU has received an unprecedented 13 national recognitions related to student learning outcomes assessment. Fulcher’s research focuses on structuring higher education to better demonstrate learning improvement. He serves on the advisory panel to the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment and collaborates extensively with the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis.
Dr. Megan Good
Director of Academic Assessment at Auburn University
In this role, she supports the assessment work of 280 academic degree programs, coordinates Auburn’s centralized general education assessment efforts (known as SCORE; Student Core Outcomes and Readiness Evaluation), and collaborates with the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning to support six learning improvement initiatives. She is a graduate of James Madison University's (JMU) Assessment and Measurement doctoral program, where her dissertation focused on how programmatic learning improvement could be achieved by connecting assessment with faculty development work. She is also a co-author on the NILOA Occasional paper: A Simple Model for Learning Improvement: Weigh Pig, Feed Pig, Weigh Pig. …...more
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