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Nils Peterson

Change Magazine - The New Guys in Assessment Town - 0 views

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  • if one of the institution’s general education goals is critical thinking, the system makes it possible to call up all the courses and programs that assess student performance on that outcome.
  • bringing together student learning outcomes data at the level of the institution, program, course, and throughout student support services so that “the data flows between and among these levels”
  • Like its competitors, eLumen maps outcomes vertically across courses and programs, but its distinctiveness lies in its capacity to capture what goes on in the classroom. Student names are entered into the system, and faculty use a rubric-like template to record assessment results for every student on every goal. The result is a running record for each student available only to the course instructor (and in a some cases to the students themselves, who can go to the system to  get feedback on recent assessments).
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 05 May 09
       
      sounds like harvesting gradebook. assess student work and roll up
    • Joshua Yeidel
      Joshua Yeidel on 05 May 09
       
      This system has some potential for formative use at the per-student leve.
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  • “I’m a little wary.  It seems as if, in addition to the assessment feedback we are already giving to students, we might soon be asked to add a data-entry step of filling in boxes in a centralized database for all the student learning outcomes. This is worrisome to those of us already struggling under the weight of all that commenting and essay grading.”
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 05 May 09
       
      its either double work, or not being understood that the grading and the assessment can be the same activity. i suspect the former -- grading is being done with different metrics
    • Joshua Yeidel
      Joshua Yeidel on 05 May 09
       
      I am in the unusual position of seeing many papers _after_ they have been graded by a wide variety of teachers. Many of these contain little "assessment feedback" -- many teachers focus on "correcting" the papers and finding some letter or number to assign as a value.
  • “This is where we see many institutions struggling,” Galvin says. “Faculty simply don’t have the time for a deeper involvement in the mechanics of assessment.” Many have never seen a rubric or worked with one, “so generating accurate, objective data for analysis is a challenge.”  
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 05 May 09
       
      Rather than faculty using the community to help with assessment, they are outsourcing to a paid assessor -- this is the result of undertaking this thinking while also remaining in the institution-centric end of the spectrum we developed
  • I asked about faculty pushback. “Not so much,” Galvin says, “not after faculty understand that the process is not intended to evaluate their work.”
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 05 May 09
       
      red flag
  • the annual reports required by this process were producing “heaps of paper” while failing to track trends and developments over time. “It’s like our departments were starting anew every year,” Chaplot says. “We wanted to find a way to house the data that gave us access to what was done in the past,” which meant moving from discrete paper reports to an electronic database.
    • Joshua Yeidel
      Joshua Yeidel on 05 May 09
       
      It's not clear whether the "database" is housing measurements, narratives and reflections, or all of the above.
  • Can eLumen represent student learning in language? No, but it can quantify the number of boxes checked against number of boxes not checked.”
  • developing a national repository of resources, rubrics, outcomes statements, and the like that can be reviewed and downloaded by users
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 05 May 09
       
      in building our repository we could well open-source these tools, no need to lock them up
  • “These solutions cement the idea that assessment is an administrative rather than an educational enterprise, focused largely on accountability. They increasingly remove assessment decision making from the everyday rhythm of teaching and learning and the realm of the faculty.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 06 May 09
       
      Over the wall assessment, see Transformative Assessment rubric for more detail
Nils Peterson

What Colleges Should Learn From Newspapers' Decline - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 30 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Peter Drucker said, "Thirty years from now, the big university campuses will be relics. ... Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable."
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 31 Mar 09
       
      Try the Harvesting Gradebook, our experiment in improving the content and quality by opening the problems and the assessment process to the community. http://wsuctlt.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/test-drive-the-harvesting-gradebook/
  • the institution is making a lot of money — which is then used to pay for faculty scholarship, graduate education, administrative salaries, the football coach, and other expensive things that cost more than they bring in.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 31 Mar 09
       
      There is other capital that the university could access -- Intellectual Capital and Social Capital. See thoughts on how learning in community could garner this http://www.nilspeterson.com/2009/03/29/extending-the-ripple-effect/
  • Joshua Yeidel on 30 Mar 09
     
    You may have heard me say that I fear that WSU might 'sail itself under the water' by not adapting to its changing environment. Here's a short but carefully-reasoned examination of parallels between universities and newspapers, which are doing just that.
  • Joshua Yeidel on 30 Mar 09
     
    Newspapers are dying. Are universities next? The parallels between them are closer than they appear.
Nils Peterson

The End in Mind - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 31 Jul 09 - Cached
  • A rapidly growing number of people are creating their own personal learning environments with tools freely available to them, without the benefit of a CMS. As Christensen would say, they have hired different technologies to do the job of a CMS for them. But the technologies they’re hiring are more flexible, accessible and learner-centered than today’s CMSs. This is not to say that CMSs are about to disappear. Students enrolled in institutions of higher learning will certainly continue to participate in CMS-delivered course sites, but since these do not generally persist over time, the really valuable learning technologies will increasily be in the cloud.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 31 Jul 09
       
      Jon Mott thinking about the Bb World, CMSes in general and Innovator's Dilemma.
  • Both administration and pedagogy are necessary in schools. They are also completely different in what infrastructure they require. This (in my opinion) has been the great failing of VLEs – they all try to squeeze the round pedagogy peg into the square administration hole. It hasn’t worked very well. Trying to coax collaboration in what is effectively an administrative environment, without the porous walls that social media thrives on, hasn’t worked. The ‘walled garden’ of the VLE is just not as fertile as the juicy jungle outside, and not enough seeds blow in on the wind.
Nils Peterson

College for $99 a Month by Kevin Carey | Washington Monthly - 1 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 17 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Which means the day is coming—sooner than many people think—when a great deal of money is going to abruptly melt out of the higher education system, just as it has in scores of other industries that traffic in information that is now far cheaper and more easily accessible than it has ever been before. Much of that money will end up in the pockets of students in the form of lower prices, a boon and a necessity in a time when higher education is the key to prosperity. Colleges will specialize where they have comparative advantage, rather than trying to be all things to all people. A lot of silly, too-expensive things—vainglorious building projects, money-sucking sports programs, tenured professors who contribute little in the way of teaching or research—will fade from memory, and won’t be missed.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 17 Oct 09
       
      Wash State Rep Reuven Carlyle quoted this in his blog http://reuvencarlyle36.com/
Nils Peterson

Will a Culture of Entitlement Bankrupt Higher Education? - Commentary - The Chronicle o... - 1 views

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  • No other country has so many fully accredited colleges or has provided such widespread access to student financial aid.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 20 Oct 09
       
      But other countries have better rates of attaining higher education (% population with a degree) than US. See Lumina Foundation goals to increase US rate from 40 to 60%
  • The reality is that higher education is expensive, and students and their families will be asked to pay an ever-larger share of the costs. Although annual increases in tuition have diminished recently, tuition is still rising faster than inflation.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 20 Oct 09
       
      Why is this the reality? There is reason to believe that it is not -- especially if one is able to remove what he calls the "entitlements."
Nils Peterson

Here, There, & Everywhere -- Campus Technology - 2 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Electronic portfolios can follow a student beyond graduation into careers and other life pursuits-- but not if the university can't guarantee access, or if the data won't transfer from one system to another. A look at how ePortfolios can be true repositories of lifelong learning.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 04 Nov 09
       
      despite this lead, it moves off to look at cloud-based portfolios in a pretty good fashion
Theron DesRosier

An Expert Surveys the Assessment Landscape - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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chronicle kuh assessment accountability higher_education

shared by Theron DesRosier on 30 Oct 09 - Cached
  • What we want is for assessment to become a public, shared responsibility, so there should be departmental leadership.
  • Theron DesRosier on 30 Oct 09
     
    "What we want is for assessment to become a public, shared responsibility, so there should be departmental leadership." George Kuh director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment.
  • Theron DesRosier on 30 Oct 09
     
    Kuh also says, "So we're going to spend some time looking at the impact of the Voluntary System of Accountability. It's one thing for schools to sign up, it's another to post the information and to show that they're actually doing something with it. It's not about posting a score on a Web site-it's about doing something with the data." He doesn't take the next step and ask if it is even possible for schools to actually do anything with the data collected from the CLA or ask who has access to the criteria: Students? Faculty? Anyone?
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