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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Future of Pedagogy and Assessment in Higher Education
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Lori L. Montalbano; Sharon Stoerger – Assessment Update, 2025
The post-pandemic expectations of today's students require greater innovation in teaching and learning. Rapidly changing technologies and software applications will drastically change how higher education is structured and disseminated. In this article, the authors examine the use of micro-credentialing, the potential and challenges of Artificial…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods, Educational Trends
Workshops That Connect Scholarship and Assessment: A Strategy for Engaging Faculty in Effective Assessment
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Danielle Schmidt Buehrer; Kathryn D. Kloepper; Troy R. Nash – Assessment Update, 2024
To help faculty connect programmatic assessment with the advancement of their own scholarly agenda, a professional development series was created that introduces faculty to the mutual benefits of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and academic program assessment. An additional benefit to faculty for participating in assessment…
Descriptors: Workshops, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods
Electronic Survey Administration: Assessment in the Twenty-First Century
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Olsen, Danny R.; Wygant, Steven A.; Brown, Bruce L. – Assessment Update, 2004
Recent advances in electronic data collection have opened broad new possibilities for educational assessment. Potentially significant savings in time, money, and effort make Web-based and e-mail-based surveys more and more attractive as alternatives to mail surveys and face-to-face interviews. Yet, as with any major change, questions and obstacles…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Mail Surveys, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
Subjectivity, Assessment, and Treasure Troves
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Weeks, Linda Ann – Assessment Update, 2004
In this article, the author shares how she used a video on animals to teach her graduate classes about subjectivity in assessment. For this video assessment, she made her students evaluate the video based on five categories: content, structure, sensitivity to audience, audio, and visual. As a teacher, she knows how impossible it is to be totally…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Videotape Recordings, Animals, Graduate Students
Community College Strategies. Assessing the Achievement of General Education Objectives: Five Years of Assessment
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Bers, Trudy; Kovala, Irene H. – Assessment Update, 2004
During the spring semesters of 1999 through 2003, the general education subcommittee of Oakton Community College's (Des Plaines, Illinois) Student Academic Assessment Team (SAAT) implemented a locally developed institutional approach for assessing students' achievement of general education objectives. The overall process remained essentially the…
Descriptors: General Education, Community Colleges, Educational Objectives, Academic Achievement
The Student Instructional Report for Distance Education: e-SIR II
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Pike, Gary R. – Assessment Update, 2004
Recently the Educational Testing Service (ETS) has modified its Student Instructional Report II (SIR II) for use in online distance education courses. The SIR II is a second-generation survey based on more than thirty years of experience with student evaluations (Centra, 1998; Centra and Gaubatz, n.d.). The e-SIR II is based on the highly…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Distance Education, Educational Testing, Prior Learning