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AHE TIG Week: Tamara Bertrand Jones on Creating an Assessment Culture

1 Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / July 4, 2013 July 4, 2013

Hello, I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones. I’m an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University and a former Director of Research and Evaluation in Student Affairs. Assessment in higher education has largely been used for external accountability. Divisions and departments can use these external mandates for internal improvement and make assessment part of daily …

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AHE TIG Week: Nina Potter on Sharing Assessment Data

1 Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / July 3, 2013 July 3, 2013

My name is Nina Potter and I am the Director of Assessment for the College of Education at San Diego State University. As the Director of Assessment, a large part of my job entails working with faculty and administrators in implementing program assessments plans from start to finish – designing assessments to measure program outcomes, …

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AHE TIG Week: Sean McKitrick on Accountability Demands for Assessment in Higher Education

1 Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / July 2, 2013 July 2, 2013

My name is Sean McKitrick, Vice President with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. In higher education settings, “assessment” is a term that can mean both institutional research and student learning assessment and usually refers to institutional efforts to provide accurate data and reports to oversight bodies such as federal and state governments or …

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AHE TIG Week: Mwarumba Mwavita, Katye Perry, and Sarah Wilkey on How Do You Conduct an Evaluation in a Fluid, Ever Changing Ecology Like Higher Education?

1 Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / July 1, 2013 July 1, 2013

Our names are Mwarumba Mwavita, Katye Perry, and Sarah Wilkey. We are faculty and evaluators in the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at Oklahoma State University. Higher education has constantly been engaged in the development, revamping, and implementation of programs. Often these changes result in reorganizations of existing programs and contribute to a dynamic …

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AHE TIG Week: Mende Davis on Measuring Progress in Higher Education: Combining Binary Outcomes

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / June 30, 2013 June 30, 2013

I am Mende Davis, co-chair of the Assessment in Higher Education TIG and research assistant professor in psychology at the University of Arizona. I’ve been involved in a variety of higher education evaluations in Minnesota and Arizona. Student progress in college is usually measured by a series of dichotomous variables; completing 12 credits a semester, …

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CREATE Week: Jim Van Haneghan on CREATE as a Resource for Educational Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 26, 2013 May 26, 2013

My name is Jim Van Haneghan and I am writing about the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE). CREATE focuses on educational evaluation and is a useful complement to my participation in the American Evaluation Association (AEA). CREATE was started back in the 1990s by Daniel Stufflebeam and others at the …

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Video in #Eval Week: William Rickards on Video Interviewing in Evaluation Inquiry

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / April 2, 2013 April 2, 2013

My name is William Rickards; I am currently senior research associate in the Office of Program Accreditation and Evaluation at USC Rossier School of Education. My career has largely been focused in higher education, although I have worked in program evaluation in delinquency prevention, youth services, and in a range of educational and social services. …

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Gregory Greenman on Gathering Information From College Students

2 Comments / Assessment in Higher Education, Graduate Student and New Evaluators / February 27, 2012 April 3, 2012

I am Gregory D. Greenman II, the Evaluation and Assessment Coordinator at the Center for Community and Learning Partnerships at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT). I am also the Massachusetts Campus Compact AmeriCorps*VISTA at WIT. For the past six months, I have been working on evaluating and assessing the Center’s civic engagement programs and the …

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Vanora Mitchell on Evaluating Online Learning

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Distance Education and Other Educational Technologies / August 23, 2011 August 23, 2011

My name is Vanora Mitchell and I am a professional independent evaluator working in Washington, DC. How do we evaluate online learning? About a year ago, a school that I volunteer with asked me to help them to evaluate their new online learning initiatives. They were in the process of developing online courses and wanted …

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Gita Upreti and Carl Liaupsin on Developing Efficient Measures with Educational Data

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Evaluation Use, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 9, 2011 September 1, 2011

Hi, we are Gita Upreti, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and Carl Liaupsin, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Much of our work involves implementing broad academic and behavioral changes in educational systems. As such, we’ve had a front row seat to observe the explosion of educational …

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