Because standardized measures rarely involve faculty who teach or the hearts of the students who learn, they are not transformative.
Core members were Gary Brown, Darren Cambridge, Steve Ehrmann (The TLT Group), Joan Lippincott (CNI), Patricia McGee, Vicki Suter (NLII) and Robin Zuniga (The TLT Group); Colleen Carmean served as a member during her tenure as NLII 2002 Fellow.
Project members made presentations on the work at Educause 2002, NLII 2003 Annual Meeting and the AAHE Assessment conference in 2003.
The project produced a rubric for evaluating the transformative potential of an assessment program or plan.
The assessment findings are used to systematically inform and reshape teaching and learning practice to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and/or value, and specifically to promote an operational “culture of evidence” (e.g., influence promotion and tenure decisions).