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My colleagues in the Assessment Program and I finally got our program description and content on the Marylhurst website. We’ve been wanting to do so for a very long time, but we needed the time and space to get it all organized. Thanks to the great work of our Educational Assessment Specialist Sione, we’re now [...]

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I’m devouring The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal, by Parker Palmer, Arthur Zajonc, and Megan Scribner right now. It’s a good read. It’s a thought-provoking read. It’s an inspiring read. It gives me hope. One premise put forth by Palmer is the idea that a key virtue in higher education that is [...]

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As part of my project for the Assessment Leadership Academy, I am writing a review of the relevant literature. My project is titled Developing an Academic Library Learning Assessment Plan, and these are some of the most helpful references I have come across so far. Megan Oakleaf’s work, specifically, is really great. REFERENCES Allen, M.J. [...]

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You know that phrase, “Preaching to the choir?” As I read more and more of the literature about assessment in higher ed (theory, empirical research, best practices, models) assigned in the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy, that phrase keeps coming out of my mouth: preaching to the choir. I am in the choir! See – here [...]

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I spent last week at Session 1 of the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy and came back with a notebook and brain full of ideas about assessment, teaching, learning, leadership, higher education, and my own sense of place in the landscape. I had the true pleasure of learning from 2 masters — Amy Driscoll and Mary [...]

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As I continue to work through and ponder the readings for the Assessment Leadership Academy I am participating in, and as I talk with my colleagues about assessment, the conundrum of grading keeps surfacing. The key question seems to be: What is the relationship between grading and assessment? I recently responded to an AALHE blog [...]

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I must be learning something — or trying to at least. In the Assessment Leadership Academy, we are reading The Learning Paradigm College, by John Tagg. And since I started that book, John Tagg has been invading my brainspace. Let me demonstrate: Yesterday, we had an Academic Leadership Team meeting at my university in which [...]

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In their book Developing Outcomes-based Assessment for Learner-centered Education, which we are reading for the Assessment Leadership Academy, Amy Driscoll and Swarup Wood share stories about their work with faculty developing their practices in teaching, learning, and assessment at CSU Monterey Bay. For one thing, they make CSUMB sound like Higher Education Utopia On Steroids. [...]

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Christine Caton, our relatively new PLA faculty member, wrote this great essay in the latest version of Marylhurst’s Adult Learning Newsletter. As she reflects on her own learning to teach online, she challenges us instructors to establish and maintain relationships with our students, to provide relevancy, and to ensure rigor in our online teaching. As [...]

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I’m happily working my way through the reading assignments for the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy that I am participating in (and finding all sorts of goodies to share with my colleagues), and this paragraph from Mary J. Allen’s book Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education (2004) reminded me why I care so much about assessment [...]

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