How To Make Measurement Super Simple
The assessment process can often feel like a chore. Here are 8 tips to make measurement super simple for faculty and administrators.
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Assessment Basics: What Are You Really Measuring?
As you’re fine-tuning your assessment process, it can be helpful to step all the way back and look at how your institution defines measurement.
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4 Ways to Make Curriculum Mapping Easier
Why is curriculum mapping so difficult? Try these tips to save time, reduce conflict, and effectively organize your learning outcomes for assessment.
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The "Why" Behind Curriculum Mapping
Why map learning outcomes to courses? Learn how curriculum mapping can simplify and strengthen your assessment process.
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The Power of Non-Academic Outcomes
When it comes to assessment and accreditation reporting, every unit in your institution should focus on outcomes that tie back to your mission statement, and non-academic units are no different.
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Assessment Basics: How To Write Clear Outcomes
Writing great outcomes for assessment reporting can be more difficult than you think. To make it easy to track meaningful progress, try these tips for developing quality outcomes.
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Breaking It Down: Mastering the CAEP Accreditation Process
Many institutions spend years preparing for CAEP accreditation review, and the process can quickly become overwhelming. Use this tips to help you effectively gather data and prepare for reporting.
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Taking Course Evaluation Reporting to the Next Level
A report is only as good as the data within it, and the data quality is dependent on how you run your course evaluations and the strength of your response rates. Take your evals to the next level.
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How to Prepare for a Virtual Assessment Site Visit
Now is the time to reevaluate current accreditation processes and build a strong digital foundation that will carry your institution through whatever the future brings – but where should you begin?
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How to Create the Best Course Evaluations
Here's how to use digital course evaluation software to create effective evaluations and surveys students will actually complete, giving you the data you need to make improvements.
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Get a Jump on Course Evaluations
It's never too early to prepare for end-of-course evaluations. These reminders will help you set up flawless evaluations and surveys.
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Survey: The Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Ed Institutions
In May 2020, Watermark conducted a national survey about the extraordinary experiences students, faculty, and staff faced due to COVID-19. The results include valuable insights and best practices.
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"A Radical Rethink": How CV Imports is Transforming Faculty Activity Reporting
Accreditation, faculty reviews, promotion and tenure processes, and strategic reporting activities are not optional. The only question is: how will you do them? Don't let data entry be a roadblock.
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8 Ways to Maintain your Mental Health during COVID-19
The influx of news reports on the state of the world’s health can be extremely taxing on your mental health. These resources can help you guide yourself to a more positive place.
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Why It's a Great Time for New Tech in Higher Ed
In coping with COVID-related disruption, institutions have found opportunities to make positive changes, including adopting new or underutilized technologies to support teaching and learning.
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3 Ways Disruption Makes Assessment More Relevant Than Ever
In a recent panel discussion, we talked about how institutions are approaching assessment in light of the pandemic and identified three ways to make assessment more relevant and effective.
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Going Above and Beyond: Measuring Faculty Activity During a Crisis
Many institutions are taking the lessons learned through the challenges of this spring to build out digital processes that will drive long-term improvements to faculty activity reporting.
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Watermark Shares: The Teachers Who Inspired Us
As part of our Teacher Appreciation Week celebration, we’ve compiled a series of special memories and shout-outs to the teachers who have impacted the Watermark community.
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Your Strategy for Assessment During COVID: Keep Calm & Collect On
A panel of educators moderated by Natasha Jankowski, Executive Director of NILOA, discussed how to continue assessment during an "asterisk semester" caused by COVID-19.
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COVID Conversations: Building the Course Catalog of the Future
As COVID drives an unprecedented amount of change, registrars are taking the opportunity to consider the role of course catalogs as their institutions move forward into an uncertain future.
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