Upcoming Live Events
A Tale of Two Cousins—Intersecting the Art of Feedback and Assessment Inspired by VALUE Rubrics
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. The VALUE Rubrics served as a launching point to delineate relevant criteria for use in multiple disciplines. LLCC has created a high impact practices (HIPs) curriculum that centers on a VALUE-rubric inspired HIPs instrument, while Jefferson has used VALUE rubrics to develop evaluation tools for effective feedback in Design and Design Thinking courses. Both institutions have moved their assessment processes to their online assessment management platform to enable learners to see and respond to feedback in real-time.
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.
AEFIS Virtual Yoga Level 1: 15-Minute Easy Stretching & Meditation While Sitting at Your Desk
This activity is intended for everyone and no experience necessary. All you need to do is show up!
Lightning Talk Series—Assessing Your Strategic Initiatives Using Inclusive, Collaborative Planning at SUNY Oswego
This presentation focuses on the process and transparency for strategic planning at the State University of New York Oswego and how AEFIS Strategic Planning Solution provides a collaborative workspace for empowering faculty and staff to contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
Comprehensive Learner Record—Enabling Embedded Assessment of Competency-Focused Outcomes at University of Rochester School of Nursing
Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) provides a holistic approach to assessment that tracks the achievement of competencies as students progress through a curriculum, identifying areas of strength and gaps in knowledge. In this session, we describe how University of Rochester’s School of Nursing developed CLR while shifting to a competency-based curriculum. We share our first findings through data collected on course learning outcomes in capstone courses within UofR nursing programs.
AEFIS Speed Networking—Meet with Our Partners & Super Users at AALHE 2021
Speed Networking is an opportunity to gather and learn about AEFIS Solutions and best practices in assessment from expert users and AEFIS Team Members. Choose your favorite topic and join in to learn how to employ best practices to support initiatives at your institution
Microcredentials for Authentic Lifelong Learning at Johns Hopkins University
Higher education is seeing a major shift in program and knowledge delivery. Learning is no longer confined to seat time or number of credit hours. Instead, evidence of knowledge, skills and abilities derive from many sources, including life experiences, non-credit offerings, and informal interactions. New technologies are making it possible to track evidence of KSAs throughout the learner’s life learning journey. In this session, we will present how Johns Hopkins University is using AEFIS end-to-end CLR platform, to expand learners’ skills recognition, and employability through a lifelong learning multi-disciplinary pilot project. This highlights how programs, activities and experiences are linked to competencies and authentic assessments making learners’ skills explicit and shareable with employers. Participants will see JHU / CLR Learner Dashboard and its resources for lifelong learning. Additionally, participants will experience how learners are able to share their assertions, credentials and badges on social media, with employers and other stakeholders.
Strategies for Joining the Digital Credentials Transformation—How CLR Can Support Continuing Education Initiatives at Your Institution
Higher education continues to show its resiliency and success in digital transformation strategies linked to supporting innovative designs in curriculum and delivery models aimed at providing value to students. In a 2021 Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) workforce analysis report, a diverse set of employers share their views on workforce preparedness and the outcomes, skills and experiences they value most in recruiting their team members for jobs (Finley, 2021). This analysis serves as a reminder to higher education that students need to translate their learning from one setting to another in order to support specific workforce needs and responsibilities.
“Assessment: The Musical!”—Episode 12 Keeping Equity in Assessment
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!
“Assessment: The Musical!”—Episode 13 Celebrating Assessment
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!
Meet Our Partners Series—Manageability and Sustainability: Curating Resources for Today’s Assessment Professionals
Assessment professionals need to stick together when it comes to sharing best practices resources to managing and sustaining processes for assessment in their division, unit, or institution-wide. This session will focus on "Manageability and Sustainability: The Cornerstone of Institutional Assessment" the theme of this year’s Drexel Assessment Conference and a call to action for all folks who are "keepers of assessment" who have success stories to tell about assessment and improvement at their institution. Together we will discuss, our commitment to academic quality, and acknowledge that the quality of the student academic experience must be the driver behind all assessment and accreditation activities.
Lightning Talk Series— Author Spotlight: “Exemplars of Assessment in Higher Education—Diverse Approaches to Addressing Accreditation Standards”
This session will provide you with an overview of their journey toward the publication of their new book, Exemplars of Assessment in Higher Education: Diverse Approaches to Addressing Accreditation Standards unpacking key elements, best practices examples, and future opportunities to adapt these models and strategies at your institution.
