Upcoming Live Events
Lightning Talks Series—Lessons Learned from Implementing a New Software Institution-Wide
Leading change in higher education is never easy and does not come without a plan that considers your mission, culture, faculty, and your students. This session will focus on strategies to support your change—specifically your digital transformation of assessment for learning and improvement—and scaling this approach across your institution to produce efficiency while also enabling access to meaningful data to drive decision-making. Dr. Davis will discuss UMGC's assessment vision, and process, including sharing their journey, challenges, examples, and instruments that you can use to lead digital transformation at your institution.
“Assessment: The Musical!”—Episode 16 The Great Fall Awakening: Ensuring Efficient Data Collection at Your Institution
Assessment, in general, can make a great musical… Come for some comic relief, share your assessment of drama, comedy, and heroic efforts. Let’s discuss how to turn all the drama into a success story!
Innovative Approaches to Adapting VALUE Rubrics to Foster Learner Feedback in High-Impact Practices
Providing clear feedback is a known contributor to positively impacting student achievement. Yet, finding the right instruments and processes to give quality feedback in real-time can be daunting. Learn from assessment professionals from Thomas Jefferson University and Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC) who have designed and digitized processes at their institutions, to quantify qualitative assessment across disciplines. A common component of these assessment practices is the use of AAC&U VALUE Rubrics. As a launching point, VALUE Rubrics served to delineate relevant criteria for use in assessing high-impact practices (HIPs) and reflective processes in multiple disciplines and across platforms.
AEFIS Makerspace: Design Your Success Journey with AEFIS
Let’s create your Success Plan with AEFIS! Our Client Development Team will be available to help you design your assessment success journey and determine how AEFIS can help.
Comprehensive Learner Record: Empowering Embedded Assessment of Competency to Determine Student Readiness for Real-World Problems
Recognizing a preparation-to-practice gap, professional organizations called for a transformation from traditional lecture-based learning, focused on learning concepts, to experiential learning emphasizing competencies. American Association for Colleges of Nursing shared their 2019 vision on how nursing education needs to improve the quality of patient care, requiring a profound pivot in assessing and reporting learning outcomes. Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) provides a holistic approach to assessment that tracks the achievement of competencies across learners’ experiences. In this session, learn about CLR in assessment and how the University of Rochester School of Nursing developed CLR while shifting to a competency-based curriculum during COVID-19.
How We Built This? Series—Accessibility and Assessment: Supporting Students in the New Normal
How We Built This? Series provides a forum for educational leaders to share their sustainable processes and best practices in leading assessment, student success and other initiatives at their institution in a spin-off active dialogue inspired by NPR’s “How I Built This” podcast series.
AEFIS Makerspace: Design Your Success Journey with AEFIS
Let’s create your Success Plan with AEFIS! Our Client Development Team will be available to help you design your assessment success journey and determine how AEFIS can help.
A Collaborative Approach to Preparing Learners with Digital Skills for the 21st Century Workforce
As post-secondary programs engage learners in the wake of COVID-19, 2021 has become a year for skills-driven hiring. Greater Washington Partnership (GWP) is a civic alliance of CEOs dedicated to making the National Capital Region – from Baltimore to Richmond – the most economically dynamic region to live, work, and grow. In 2018, GWP launched Capital CoLAB (“Collaborative of Leaders in Academia and Business”) a network of 24 higher-education institutions including the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Listen in to their strategic assessment plan aligned to skills essential to employers using Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) with ed-tech leader AEFIS.
AEFIS Makerspace: Design Your Success Journey with AEFIS
Let’s create your Success Plan with AEFIS! Our Client Development Team will be available to help you design your assessment success journey and determine how AEFIS can help.
Expanding Professional Learning for Assessment and Improvement
Professional learning in higher education is a precious commodity given shrinking budgets and changes to the higher-ed landscape. To support assessment development efforts, AEFIS and Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) are partnering to broaden the scope for assessment professional development nationwide. Together, they’re expanding SAAL’s “Applying & Leading Assessment in Student Affairs” course and resources to AEFIS Academy - an open online community dedicated to professional learning and networking in assessment, strategic planning, and best practices for teaching and learning. Learn how AEFIS and SAAL collaboration will support those leading assessment activities, and keep higher education leaders current in their work.
Lightning Talks Series—Integrated Planning: The “Difference that Makes a Difference” in Institutional Effectiveness Over Time
Lightning Talks are short, targeted presentations that provide insight into best practices, challenges, and successes in assessment. Listen in as some of the greatest minds and thought leaders share authentic assessment processes, continuous improvement stories, and innovative approaches toward lifelong learning and student success.
Meet Our Partners Series—Assessing Your Non-Academic & Support Units at Texas A&M International
Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) has had great success collecting, analyzing, and making changes based on data within their academic and non-academic units using an intentional workflow and data collection template in AEFIS. This session will focus on non-academic unit assessment, how to efficiently and effectively collaborate with unit leaders, ensure they are collecting the right data on a regular cadence, and empower them to use the data to improve their offerings and programming for their learners.
