Collaborative approaches to assessment are emerging as an effective practice for building campus assessment culture and commitment to student success; however, we all know that collaboration requires more than a mandate that units should “work together.”
Over the past 3 years, almost 200 campus teams have worked to investigate how libraries contribute to student learning and success and documenting emerging and best practices in library service design and delivery. Because of these investigations, we have compelling evidence that students benefit from library instruction in their initial coursework, library use increases student success, collaborative academic programs and services involving the library enhance student learning, information literacy instruction strengthens general education outcomes, and library research consultation services boost student learning.
The project reports and reflections from the team leaders also provide strong evidence that collaborative assessment fosters an understanding of functions and roles of different campus constituents, supports important conversations, encourages commitment to assessment that extends beyond one project, and promotes sustainable organizational change.
Intrigued? Please join Taskstream on Wednesday, November 16th at 2 pm ET for an exclusive webinar, “Team-Based Assessment: Collaborating for a Campus Message About Student Learning,” (now available on-demand) presented by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Karen Brown from Dominican University.
The webinar will present an overview of best practices in team-based assessment in the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Assessment in Action (AiA) project, which was supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The design of AiA was based on community of practice and action research models as well as concepts of reflective leadership and effective advocacy principles.
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