Electronic Learning Environments: Assessing Educational Outcomes

Presentation at EDUCAUSE 2000: Together We'll Think IT Through, an EDUCAUSE conference
by Scott Macklin
October 2000

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Taking a cue from the June 14 NLII focus session on "Transformative Assessment," this Current Issues session focuses on the iterative process of development and assessment of next generation technologies and strategies for teaching and learning by sussing out:

• What is the nature of the desired transformation of teaching and learning (what is the vision, and what measures would show our progress toward that desired state)?
• How can assessment be used to plan for, guide, motivate, or evaluate systemic transformation of teaching and learning?
• How can individual campuses and programs construct their own research-based guidelines for using assessment to promote learning?
• How should assessment methodologies and processes for a particular project or program be designed, taking into account institutional culture and values and an implicit goal of developing shared language and concepts?
• What are various models of assessment, and how do they relate to different ideas about how system transformation comes about (models and change management processes)?