1. Transformative Assessment Project Next Steps Consultation with CNI Fall 2003 Task Force Meeting Attendees

2. Session objectives  Share information on the Transformative Assessment Project/our perspective on assessment  Understand the landscape a bit from other attendees’ perspectives  Consult with attendees on potential next steps for TAP

3. Introductions  Could you tell us your name, institution, and –a little bit about an institutional assessment project you are working on –OR what interested you in this session (what you were hoping to gain by participating)?

4. NLII – Initiative of EDUCAUSE Mission – use technology to enable Education that is... Active and Learner- Centered Dynamic & Lifelong Collaborative Cost Effective Accessible High Quality For more information, see http://www.educause.edu/nliihttp://www.educause.edu/nlii

5. Transformative Assessment Project  Three-year project  Partnership of NLII, TLT Group, CNI, WSU, AAHE  Designed to: –elicit new ideas about assessment practices and systems that will transform teaching and learning –help institutions of higher education put these ideas into action  See: http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes/transformative.asp http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes/transformative.asp

6. Purpose of TAP Create tools to support teams from institutions that  are involved in significant institutional improvement of teaching and learning with technology;  use assessment in a variety of ways to guide and support that effort;  share a commitment to the purposeful application of assessment and dissemination of assessment results to support deep change.

7. Your turn again Share an assessment a-ha, or high point (most successful, most engaged, most clear about purpose)– for current, past or even future (imagined) project

8. Any common denominators?

9. The TAP “a-ha’s” – the key questions  What is transformation?  How does it comes about?  What is the relationship between assessment & transformation?  What are some effective strategies for developing a transformative assessment program?  What are some processes for developing such a program?

10. What is transformation?  Emergent from institutional vision, mission, culture & context  Focused on learning outcomes, processes and purposes (honors learners & learning)  Qualitative  Large-scale, systemic, contagious & catalytic  Enabled by the intelligent and appropriate use of technology  Informed by assessment & a commitment to data-driven decision-making

11. What is transformation, cont.  Based upon iterative, collaborative generation and refinement of an institutional conceptual framework that articulates and communicates a shared institutional understanding

12. Conceptual framework  Expresses an authentic institutional mission with regard to teaching and learning  Reflects faculty educational values informed by the science of learning  Articulates the relationships among learning, teaching, course/program/service development, application of technology, and institutional and community organization

13. TAP Work Products White paper http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NLI0348.pdf Transformative Assessment Rubric http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EDU0251.pdf Three Focus sessions (see particularly Summer 2003 focus session) http://www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings/nlii033/ Team-Based Transformative Assessment planning process READY System branches (Alignment in Planning/Transformative Assessment) http://www.educause.edu/ready New Academy Virtual Community of Practice (VCOP) http://www.educause.edu/vcop/new_academy.asp

14. Possible Next Steps  Refine and package current work products (form, additional attributes, accessibility)  Learning object wrapped around by a productive activity  Refine/extend the process for developing conceptual framework  VCOP Approach – CFP for institutional teams; outputs case studies & effective practices

15. Consultation What could the TAP team do that would be most helpful in advancing your institutional assessment project? What could the TAP team do that would be most helpful in advancing practice?

16. Contact Information TAP Team Contacts  WSU - Gary Brown (browng@wsu.edu) browng@wsu.edu  AAHE - Darren Cambridge (dcambridge@educause.edu dcambridge@educause.edu  CNI - Joan Lippincott (joan@cni.org) joan@cni.org  NLII - Vicki Suter (vsuter@educause.edu) vsuter@educause.edu  TLT – Steve Ehrmann (ehrmann@tltgroup.org) ehrmann@tltgroup.org BOOKMARK: http://www.educause.edu/nlii http://www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes/transforma tive.asp http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes/transforma tive.asp http://www.educause.edu/vcop/new_academy.asp