20 Years in Higher Education Consulting

2. 20 Years in Higher Education Consulting

3. Assessment is... most …one of the important practices for increasing student success.

4. The Purpose of Assessment To INCREASE quality

5. The Purpose of Evaluation To JUDGE quality

6. High Assessor provides feedback on how the performance can beimproved Using Standard 1, the measured performance was a failure Assessor provides clarification and meaning with insightsabout the performance Measured performance Using Standard 2, the measured performance was a success Assessor provides feedback on what were strengths of the performance and why Low Comparing Assessment and Evaluation Evaluationdetermines if a standard was met; success or failure Assessmentprovides feedback on performance; Strengths, Areas for Improvement, and Insights (SII) Measurement

7. SII General Assessment Tool (S)trength of the Performance and how it was produced (I)mprovement that can be made in the performance and how to produce it (I)nsight: what was learned from assessing the performance and why is it significant?

8. Assessment Key things everyone should know:

9. Quality assessment or evaluation needs quality performance measures

10. Assessment is used more by quality performers… …than by low performers.

11. Self-growers use self-assessment to self-mentor.

12. Mentors help to produce self-growers by assessing their self-assessments.

13. Assessment + Evaluation Program assessment is the systematic process of integrating assessment and evaluation effectively to continuously improve program quality and documenting for others that it exceeds expectations of key stakeholders.

14. Finally, the most important aspect of implementing quality assessment and self-assessment is shifting from an evaluation mindset to an assessment mindset.