| Abstract: | For complex human institutions, process is the "engine" that converts models, strategies and rubrics into operational reality. Some approaches that can be adapted into structured processes for developing your institutional transformative assessment program are: a)development of institutional portfolios (for an example, see the Urban Universities Portfolio Project,) ;
b)participation in the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Program; and c)use of methods, tools and processes from the Flashlight Program for the Study and Educational Use of Technology
In addition, the TAP team, drawing from experiences in a previous TAP activity, the TAPONLINE workshop, and also from the writings of Mary Huba and Jann E. Freed (especially "Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses"), has designed and tested a process and a template for creating a developmental document, the "Transformative Assessment Planning Template." The document is developmental because the activities that must be carried out to complete it can lead to development of skills, infrastructure, resources, organization, community, ongoing processes and activities characteristic of a culture of evidence. The processes necessary to construct and maintain the document could be integrated into an ongoing, dynamic, institutional strategic planning process (which is yet another approach that can be adapted for developing a transformative assessment program). Included is a concept map of the planning process. |
