AALHE 2018 Annual Conference

As a follow-up to "Identifying Problems in Assessment", David Eubanks, Erik Gilbert, Lynn Priddy, and Bob Shireman will suggest potential futures and offer solutions to avoiding previously identified snares and pitfalls in assessment as it is currently practiced. Erik Gilbert, Professor of History and Chair of Arkansas State University's Institutional Review Board, will begin by providing a faculty view of professional development needs of faculty for improvement of teaching and learning in the Academy. Next, David Eubanks, author of A Guide for the Perplexed, will offer guidelines for using basic tenets of statistics and measurement when designing assessment protocols. A veteran Vice-President for Accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission and current Provost, National American University, Lynn Priddy will then discuss ways to uphold assessment for learning in light of H.R. 4508, PROSPER, the Higher Education Act. Bob Shireman, senior fellow at The Century Foundation, will conclude by suggesting pathways for advancing solutions for improved assessment practices to public policy. Participants are invited to submit questions for the panelists electronically throughout the session.