Grand Challenges in Assessment Project

Using Assessment Findings to Increase Equity

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Goal 1: Promote existing and create new equitable assessment practices 

1.1: Identify and share equitable assessment practices

1.2: Benchmark use and efficacy of equity-centered practices in assessment

1.3: Acknowledge and celebrate equitable practices in assessment nationally and locally 

Goal 2: Create professional development to support the practice of equitable assessment

2.1: Create an accessible online library of professional development resources

2.2: Develop strategies to empower students to contribute to assessment of learning 

​Goal 3: Engage with existing structures to increase equity 

3.1: Assess and improve equity and validity in national surveys and datasets

3.2: Engage with accrediting agencies to create standards that support equity

3.3: Create tools and guidelines to identify inequities

Equity Co-Chairs: Ciji Heiser, Shannon Milligan, and Erick Montenegro

Equity Members​: Joel Bloom, Rowanna Carpenter, Moreen Carvan, Maniphone Dickerson, Krishna Dunston, Sosanya Jones, Kimberly Long, Matthew McKay, Jessica Nastal, Renata Opoczynski, Ellen Peters, Heather Pleasants, Glenn Phillips, Eric Riedel, George Still, Kimberly Thompson, Terry Rhodes, Ereka  Williams

Using assessment findings to direct immediate pedagogical improvements

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Goal 1: Improve measurement of student learning over time

1.1: Identify measurement strategies to evaluate the impact of using assessment to effect pedagogical changes

1.2: Promote strategies that effectively measure student learning over time

Goal 2: Increase the use of assessment to guide rapid and equitable improvements in learning

2.1: Identify equitable assessment practices that guide rapid improvements in pedagogy

2.2: Translate research to teaching practices that guide rapid pedagogical improvements

2.3 Broaden the use of data-driven rapid improvements to pedagogy

Pedagogy Co-Chairs: Merideth Garcia, Justin Hoshaw, Diane Kelly-Riley, Ruth Slotnick, Jessica Taylor

Pedagogy Members: Michael Ben-Avie, Chris Blankenship, Kimberly Daugherty, Yao Hill, Bryant Hutson, Susan Kahn, Serafina Pastore

Producing visible and actionable assessment findings that drive innovation and improvement

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Goal 1: Advance innovative approaches to institutional excellence

1.1 Improve integrated planning skills in senior leadership, faculty, and staff

1.2 Increase the use of integrated planning 

1.3 Share innovative models of assessments used to guide resource allocation

1.4: Create brave and safe spaces to promote an innovative culture

1.5: Create opportunities to experiment with alternative approaches to teaching 

Goal 2: Advance innovative approaches to making institutional findings actionable

2.1. Improve quality of data by improving planning

2.2. Improve data collection by adding implementation fidelity descriptors

2.3: Improve data interpretation by increasing stakeholder engagement in the interpretation of findings 

Goal 3: Advance innovative approaches to making institutional findings visible 

3.1: Create and disseminate data visualization and data story resources

3.2: Increase use of data visualizations  

3.3: Increase use of data storytelling  

Innovation Co-Chairs: Carley Dear, Erin Isaacson, Melissa Williams, Megan Schramm-Possinger

Innovation Members: Angela Bowlus, Angela Bryan, Edward Collins, Lina Di Genova, Ashli Grabau, Gregory Lin, Kirstin Moreno, Nicholas Santilli, Teri Schnelle, Xiaomei Song, Claudia Stanny, Constance Tucker, Robert Wilkinson