Open Access12: Creating a Culture of Formative Assessment: The Teaching Excellence and Assessment Partnership Project
Author(s) -
Ross Roseanna G.,
Schwaller Anthony,
Helmin Jenine
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2000.tb00370.x
Subject(s) - formative assessment , general partnership , excellence , summative assessment , sociology , pedagogy , engineering ethics , engineering management , engineering , political science , law
In a year‐long, grant‐supported collaborative effort, St. Cloud State University's Assessment Office and Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence created a Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) faculty development project. This project was targeted at departments across campus at St. Cloud State University, with the intent of creating a university climate of formative assessment while improving teaching and learning. This article describes the purposes, stages of implementation, and results of the project as measured by a pre‐test and post‐test survey. The pre‐ and post‐test surveys indicate that the project was highly effective in impacting the use of CATs among participants and their departmental colleagues.