Presenter:

Stephen P. Hundley: Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Planning and Institutional Improvement, IUPUI

Stephen Hundley serves as Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Planning and Institutional Improvement and Professor of Organizational Leadership at IUPUI. He chairs the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis and serves as Editor of Assessment Update. With Susan Kahn, he is co-editor of the forthcoming book Trends in Assessment: Ideas, Opportunities, and Issues for Higher Education.

Presenter:

Susan Kahn: Director, Institutional Improvement Initiatives, IUPUI

Susan Kahn is Director of Planning and Institutional Improvement Initiatives and an adjunct faculty member in IUPUI’s University College and its Department of English. From 2006 until 2018, she also directed IUPUI’s ePortfolio Initiative. With Stephen Hundley, she is co-editor of Trends in Assessment: Ideas, Opportunities, and Issues for Higher Education.

Description:  

What should students know and be able to do? What credible evidence is used to determine progress toward learning goals? How can assessment practices and results support meaningful improvements in student learning and institutional effectiveness? These questions have been at the heart of assessment’s efforts in higher education for the last quarter century. But, recently, we have also been asking some new questions: Can assessment help us understand how and why, as well as what students learn? How can assessment help us to educate and develop the whole student? This interactive workshop outlines enduring principles that have influenced the development of assessment and improvement practices and emerging opportunities for assessment, including implications for higher education’s future. Content for this workshop is informed by Assessment Update, a bimonthly publication from Wiley/Jossey-Bass with a national readership; the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, now the nation’s oldest and largest event of its type; and Trends in Assessment: Ideas, Opportunities, and Issues for Higher Education, a forthcoming book co-edited by the workshop facilitators (Stylus; release date October 2019).

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Describe enduring principles that have influenced assessment and improvement practices;
2. Discuss the implications of enduring principles and emerging trends for higher education’s future;
3. Share additional resources to enhance our understanding of assessment; and
4. Develop action plans and priorities for incorporating assessment principles and trends in a given context.