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High impact educational practices (HIPs) offer the promise of retaining and graduating students prepared for success. It’s more than just a promise. Research shows that educators who use HIPs – such as internships, collaborative projects, service learning and more

 For many colleges, assessing prior learning is a not a simple task.  It’s not enough to look at a learner’s work history and practical experience. 

Assessment data is exploding for most colleges.  Institutional research departments gather mountains of data.  That data is aggregated and reported in various ways. 

Do you spend time thinking up questions for quizzes and tests? That’s one way to approach assessment. But consider a different route: design assessment tasks by using the competencies in your course as a starting point. This approach is the basis of authentic assessment.

Using assessment results to improve student learning closes the loop on assessment.