Hutchings, P. (2010, April). Opening doors to faculty involvement in assessment. NILOA Occasional Paper No.4). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois and Indiana University, National Institute of Learning Outcomes Assessment.
Much of what has been done in the name of assessment has failed to induce large numbers of faculty to systematically collect and use evidence of student learning to improve teaching and enhance student performance. Pat Hutchings, a senior associate at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, examines the dynamics behind this reality, including the mixed origins of assessment, coming both from within and outside academe, and the more formidable obstacles that stem from the culture and organization of higher education itself. She then describes six ways to bring the purposes of assessment and the regular work of faculty closer together, which may make faculty involvement more likely and assessment more useful. View the paper.
Staci Provezis, Project Manager
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)
Sprovez2@ad.uiuc.edu
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