Assessment for Improvement vs. Assessment for Accountability

Most of the time, when we talk about “assessment” in higher education, we’re referring to how faculty members gauge their students’ learning and use the findings to improve curriculum, instruction, and campus services.

At other times, we’re referring to how institutions gauge their progress toward achieving their missions.

Your state and federal legislators are now calling for call assessment -- common outcome measures, such as standardized tests, to evaluate and compare college performance.

Can this work? Can assessment for improvement and assessment for accountability co-exist—even complement one another? What’s the difference?

This 90-minute seminar explores these important questions and help you make sense of a confusing and sometimes thorny issue.

Knowledge benefits for you:

• Learn the difference between assessment for improvement and assessment for accountability
• Review proposed accountability measures and their strengths and weaknesses
• Understand the push behind current calls for standardized student testing 
• Consider alternatives to these tests
• Receive articles for more in-depth reading
• Invite colleagues to listen with you and engage in further discussion on this important subject

Who can benefit from this seminar:

• Faculty and staff responsible for assessment
• Institutional research staff
• Department chairs
• Academic deans
• Provosts
• Other academic administrators

About the Presenter

Dr. Trudy W. Banta is professor of higher education and senior advisor to the chancellor for academic planning and evaluation at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She has developed and coordinated 21 national conferences and 15 international conferences on the topic of assessing quality in higher education. She has consulted with faculty and administrators in nearly all 50 states, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates and has by invitation addressed national conferences on outcomes assessment in Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Spain and Scotland. 

Dr. Banta has edited 15 published volumes on assessment, contributed 26 chapters to published works, and written more than 200 articles and reports. She is the founding editor of Assessment Update, a bi-monthly periodical published since 1989. She has been honored for her work by the American Association for Higher Education, American College Personnel Association, American Productivity and Quality Center, Association for Institutional Research, National Council on Measurement in Education, and National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher Education.

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