Assessment Methodology
This section contains postings of David Dirlam to the Methodology Community of Practice of the Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE). The postings are otherwise only available to the AALHE memberships. The goal is for each posting to be as useful to the HUC-JIR community as it is to the AALHE membership.
Fundamental Issues
Manageable Program Assessment Professional Learning Program Assessment Advancing Assessment Research Assessment vs. Institutional Research Assessment Attentions Competence, Composition, Communities and Commitments Getting Started with a Learning Outcomes Network Sample Size Problems: Significance Bust and Commitment Boom
Building an Assessment Research Community
AALHE Works! Idea Backlog
Establishing Assessment Science
Establishing Assessment Science Why Assessment is Prescientific Engaging Assessment Science Scientific Progress Rubric MOSHE Rubrics Elucidate Paradigmatic Changes
Advancing Research in Assessment Design
Advancing Research in Assessment Design Applying Trillions of Ways to Design Successions of Concepts followed by Processes The Four Steps of Design How Designers’ Dimensions of Research Can Change Assessment Envisioning Beautiful Research Learned with Delight, Remembered Right Analyzing Communication
Rubrics
Rubrics Rubrics Are Learning Outcomes Corrosive to Teaching? Developmental Interviewing Tools Naming Levels in Rubrics Why Should Rubrics Criteria be Called Dimensions? Analyzing Rubrics Data
The Four Audiences of Reliability
Introduction Cognition Agreement Community Public Conclusions
Typology of Assessment Methods
What is an Assessment Method? Methods Typology Ten Questions from Social Science Methodology Twenty-One Questions from Design Methodology Organizing Assessment Presentations Studying Faculty Engagement in Assessment Collaboration in Assessment Assessment Methodology Queries
Assessment and Complexity
A Preface Deconstruction versus Assessment Text Analysis Tools
Authentic Assessment
Is Authentic Assessment an Authentic Method? Developmental Interview Tools KANO spells Knowledge from Assessment, Novelty and Organization What Areas of Expertise Fit MODEL Rubrics Best? New Ideas from Attending to the Succession Model Assessing Connections between Coursework and Workplace
Analyzing Learning Outcomes Networks
What's at Stake? Basic Steps Focus on Students
Assessment Impossible
Premier The Program Menu Who's the Exec? A Glamour Metaphor? Preserving the Legacy the Easy Way Practical Legacy Preservation Inspiring Legacy Preservation Nourishing the Imagination
Bankers, Biomes and Bogeys
Introduction Freedman's Bogey The Biome Bogey Balancing the Bogey
Historical Recapitulation and Educational Practice
Historical Recapitulation and Educational Practice Introduction The Historical and Individual Development of English
NodeXL
NodeXL Introduction
Applying LON Results
Introduction Evidence and Decisions