| Abstract: | Transformative assessment systems are institution-wide assessment strategies that are based on institutional goals and implemented in an integrated way for all levels (courses, programs and majors, services, and the institution as a whole) to systematically transform teaching and learning in the ways that the institution has targeted. Transformative assessment systems are aligned with institutional mission, planning, budgeting, information technology, development, and other key institutional processes so that, together, they drive changes in the direction of high priority for the institution, its staff, students, and constituents, regardless of what the priority is (priorities could range from promoting a high level of collaborative skills in graduating students, to ensuring that a regional population is well-served, to increasing the cost-effectiveness of the use of technology in instruction). A partnership of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), the Flashlight Program of the TLT Group, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and the University of Colorado, Boulder's Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS) has been working for the past year on the Transformative Assessment Project. This project is designed to elicit new ideas about assessment practices and systems that will transform teaching and learning using technology, and to help institutions of higher education put these ideas into action. The presenters will present some early findings of this project, and report on future plans. |
