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Developing an Assessment Consortium Selected Slides from Presentation: Thursday, December 10 ll am-noon. Cheryl Beil cbeil@gwu.edu Assistant Vice President for Academic Planning, Institutional Research, and Assessment, and Assistant Research Professor of Psychology
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Developing an Assessment ConsortiumSelected Slides from Presentation:Thursday, December 10ll am-noon Cheryl Beil cbeil@gwu.edu Assistant Vice President for Academic Planning, Institutional Research, and Assessment, and Assistant Research Professor of Psychology The George Washington University Karen Froslid Jones kfroslid@american.edu Director, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment American University
Questions to consider when organizing an assessment consortium • Assessment: • What is the need for the organization? • Mission: • What are the desired outcomes? • Membership: • Who can join? • Organizational structure: • Should it be formal or informal? • Do you want to create by-laws?
Questions to consider when organizing (cont) • Leadership: • Who will initiate the start-up? • How will the organization be sustained over time? • Funding: • How will you fund activities? • Should there be membership fees? • Communication: • How will you communicate with one another? • Meeting: How often will you meet? • What will be achieved at the meetings? • Record keeping: • Should records be kept? • How will records be maintained?
Resources New England Educational Assessment Network (NEEAN) http://www.neean.org/ Reinvention Center http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/ Washington Area Schools Learning and Assessment Network (WASLAN) Cheryl Beil – cbeil@gwu.edu Karen Froslid Jones – kfroslid@american.edu http://www.american.edu/provost/assessment/index.cfm