In any case anyone is interested in a followup, I had a really
productive meeting on this topic of dramatically improving our
assessment capabilities with Cecilia Shore this morning, and I think
she agreed it'd be really sensible to make sure that OAE covers our
needs in this area.

My basic argument is that we have expertise in this area on campus
(particularly in the comp sci department), and that we should try to
find a way to contribute towards realizing this in OAE, whether by
dedicating some staffing resources, or by something more creative like
having advanced courses work on it in some form.

Bruce

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So I'm going to try to keep this short, but this is a big topic.
>
> In a nutshell, assessment at Miami (but certainly more generally) is a
> dysfunctional mess that adds significant workload to faculty and
> staff, with very little benefit. It does a very poor job of actually
> measuring what our students are learning, and does so in a way that is
> not useful to faculty.
>
> So on possibilities with the next-gen version of Sakai, particularly
> if we get more involved and push on this ...
>
> I understand there was some talk on assessment on campus today in
> which the speaker made similar points, and argued much as I have been,
> that assessment needs to be much more finely woven into what we do on
> a daily basis. But the obvious question is, how do you actually do
> this? What's the practical solution?
>
> Here's one answer I proposed to integrate into Sakai OAE (see comments
> section at bottom of page), which is in turn inspired by work started
> in Miami's comp sci department.
>
> <https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/3AK/URG+Assessment+Discussion>
>
> I haven't yet heard back about how practical the OAE development group
> thinks this is to integrate now.
>
> Bruce
>
> PS - portfolio tools aren't enough; this needs to be part of our daily workflow.
> --
> Bruce D'Arcus
> Associate Professor, Graduate Director
> Department of Geography
> Miami University
> 234 Shideler Hall
> Oxford, Ohio 45056
>



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Bruce D'Arcus
Associate Professor, Graduate Director
Department of Geography
Miami University
234 Shideler Hall
Oxford, Ohio 45056