Rethinking Assessment for Agency and Relevance
Bonni Stachowiak and Naomi Kasa – Vanguard University
2017 Lilly Conference Presentation
Presenters will share their own assessment methods that stress agency and relevance, as well as sharing those from other institutions via podcast interview audio clips.
Slide Deck
Presentation Resources
- Trend 1: Learner Agency (from New Zealand's CORE Education Top Ten Trends)
- Glossary of Education Reform: Definition of Assessment
- Agency and Learning: Researching Agency in Educational Interactions (2016, Rajala, Martin, & Kumpulainen)
- Give Students a Choice in Their Learning, article by Isabeau Iqbal
- Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Episode 65 – Teaching lessons from Pixar with Josh Eyler
- Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Episode 91 – Choose Your Own Adventure Assessment
- Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Episode 29 – Public Sphere Pedagogy with Thia Wolf
- Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Episode 29 – Specifications Grading with Linda Nilson
- Specifications Grading, by Linda Nilson
- Putting Specs Grading to Work, article by Robert Talbert
- Assessment and instructional design, article by Bonni Stachowiak
- Choose Your Own Adventure Learning, article by Bonni Stachowiak
- Choose Your Own Adventure Learning (part 2), article by Bonni Stachowiak
Other Resources That May Be of Interest
- Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Episode 33 – The Slide Heard ‘Round the World (make better slide decks)
- Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Episode 24 – Cultivate Creative Assignments with Cameron Hunt McNabb
- PollEverywhere
- A Taste of Agency, article by Bonni Stachowiak (also addresses course trailers)
- Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From The Science of Learning, by James Lang
- Not Enough Voices, keynote talk by Sean Michael Morris