Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment: A Deeper Focus on Student Learning

Enhancing student learning should be the priority—with documenting evidence for accreditation as a secondary purpose. The process for assessment planning should be done for the institution’s benefit first and foremost. For this type of system to work, it must be embedded and integrated into the regular cycle of institutional events, course revisions, and student life, and it must lead to meaningful and transformational aspects of learning in the classroom and within the campus community.