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education.

Transformative Assessment

Session Details

Wednesday, October 20, 2004
10:30 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Ballroom 4

Session Type: Track 6

Speaker(s)

  • Gary R. Brown, Director, The Center for Online Learning, Portland State University, Portland State University
  • Joan K. Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
  • Session convener: Suzanne Bonefas, Director of Special Projects, Rhodes College

Abstract

The costs of technologies, dwindling budgets, changing demographics, increased pressure for public accountability, and our knowledge of how people learn underscore the urgent need to deal with assessment. This session will focus on how to transform assessment and how assessment can help institutions transform themselves. Examples will be shared along with the principles that drive transformative assessment.

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