The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) is co-located at the University of Illinois and Indian University. It was created to help institutions of higher education discover and adopt practical practices in student assessment. Last week, NILOA issued two brand new research papers on assessing higher education learning outcomes.
Peter Ewell analyzes in the first paper, how accountability and assessment have changed over the past two decades. Ewell offers suggestions for how community colleges and universities can manage the tensions between improvement and assessment in the current higher education environment.
In the second paper, Trudy Banta, Merilee Griffin and Teresa Flateby describe the development several promising authentic assessment approaches. The authors contributions draw on their own experience in order to illustrate, for example, how: portfolios, common analytic rubrics and online communities can more effectively link assessment practices to pedagogy.
To read Peter Ewell's paper please click here.
To read the assessment approach paper please click here.
