Institutional and Team Issues

CNI

• Collaborations among sectors involved in activities related to use of Internet in research and education

• Institutional team-based projects• New Learning Communities• Assessment in the Networked

Environment• Institution-wide Information Strategies

TAP Institutions Need To: • Have a commitment to the improvement

of teaching and learning

• Have a systemic focus on change

• Have a specific campus focus(s) for change

• Involve technology in the transformation

• Integrate assessment into the planning of transformation of T&L

Institutional Support

• Top level support for:• Mission of transformation• Commitment of resources• Commitment to act on knowledge

gained through assessment

Environmental Factors

• External pressure for accountability

• Major investments in technology

• Desire to improve overall effectiveness of T&L

• Suspicion of assessment

• Lack of resources for assessment

• Interest in narrow or incremental improvements

Promoting TAP Hindering TAP

1: “Name that change”

• What is important in your institution?

• Uncover institutional documents that can be used to develop a framework for assessment

• Focus on transformative goals related to teaching and learning

2: Plan your assessment

• Identify the stakeholders

• Determine the audience for assessment activities

• Inventory institutional capacity, such as “READY”

2 (cont): Plan your assessment

• Consider institutional culture

• Determine key indicators

• Prioritize activities

• Identify methodologies

• Develop an implementation plan

• Stay flexible

Key attributes of a successful plan

• Realistic

• Resourced

U. Central Florida

Institutional TAP Teams

• Team charge should come from upper levels of administration

• Team members should be drawn from stakeholder groups

• Teams should include someone with genuine assessment expertise

Team Participants• Faculty• Institutional Research• Assessment/Evaluation Offices• Department/College of Education• Center for Teaching Excellence• Instructional Technology• Library• IT

Successful teams

• Develop a common mission and shared meaning

• Find value in contribution of unique skills and perspectives of various sectors

• Share vocabularies

Successful teams

• Develop a working style

• Discuss team process

• Make time for team work

Team strategies

• Go through READY as a team

• Take the online course as a team (ASU West)

We Need Your Involvement

• Take the READY assessment branch

• Critique the TAP Rubric

• Contribute case studies

• Help plan or host additional workshops (June 2003 with AAHE)

TAP Website

http://team.educause.edu/tapREADY

http://www.educause.edu/ready Questions?

vsuter@educause.eduRubric Critique

browng@wsu.edu