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Using Focus Groups For Assessment, Evaluation, And Improvement, Yuerong Sweetland
Using Focus Groups For Assessment, Evaluation, And Improvement, Yuerong Sweetland
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
A focus group, as Krueger (2015) defined, is “a carefully planned series of discussions designed to obtain perceptions on a defined area of interest in a permissive, non-threatening environment.” A focus group approach, as a qualitative method, can provide rich information on perceptions, feelings, and reactions through participant interactions resembling the dynamics of real life in a comfortable environment. In particular, it can be used to uncover mysteries behind vague or unexpected responses by probing into the “how” or “why” of participant behavior and thinking.
Assessment Of And For Student Learning And Success: Who Cares?!, Lewis Chongwony
Assessment Of And For Student Learning And Success: Who Cares?!, Lewis Chongwony
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
A couple of months ago I came across a Chronicle of Higher Education article titled “Does Assessment Make Colleges Better? Who Knows?” The gist of the article is that virtually nobody, even those in higher education, truly cares about an institution’s assessment in making informed decisions about quality of institutions, for example, when considering a significant choice of which college to send one’s children.
Assessment As An Agent For Change, Yuerong Sweetland
Assessment As An Agent For Change, Yuerong Sweetland
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
I recently attended two assessment-related conferences: the AALHE (Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education) 7th Annual Conference and the SAARC (Student Affairs Assessment and Research Conference) at the Ohio State University where I served as a panelist. These two conferences were quite different, with the second one leaning more towards assessment and research in student affairs or co-curricular areas and the first one having a more comprehensive focus on assessment, learning and teaching. In spite of the many differences, I felt that a common challenge was being addressed, either explicitly or implicitly: how to make assessment meaningful …
How To Make Assessment Meaningful, Yuerong Sweetland
How To Make Assessment Meaningful, Yuerong Sweetland
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
One of the challenges with assessment is answering the “so-what” question. After the initial nationwide calls for assessment more than three decades ago, most institutions are conducting assessment. However, when it comes to using assessment data, there are varying levels of success at higher education institutions, even though accrediting bodies are placing more and more emphasis on closing the assessment loop by using evidence of student learning to inform changes in curriculum and instruction (as well as co-curriculum).