Assessment as a “Perpetual Movement?”

• Most Social Movements…

  • Fade as Fads, or
  • Go Away Because Core Ideas are Mainstreamed

• The “Assessment Movement” Has Done Neither...

  • External Requirements Keep it Alive
  • But External Pressures also Constrain Faculty Buy-In and Meaningful Institutional Use

• Moving Beyond a “Perpetual Movement” Will Demand...

  • Making Assessment Real to Faculty by Connecting It to the Actual Practice of Teaching and Learning
  • Re-Focusing Accountability on the Authentic Student Abilities that Society Says it Needs