If you have been waiting for an opportunity to talk about your doubts and concerns about assessment this summer (and who would not want to use valuable summer travel time to talk about assessment), you have several opportunities in the next couple of months.
Friday May 4th, I will a panelist at the San Francisco State University chapter of the California Faculty Association meeting. The theme of the conference is “Resisting the Neoliberal University.” I will be on the morning plenary at 9:00 for the session on the “Mechanics of Managerial Takeover” and then will be in a breakout session called “Tools of Control and Authority.”
Then, in early June, there will be two panels at the Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE) meeting in Salt Lake City that should be of interested to assessment doubters. Both are on June 6 and feature me, Bob Shireman, Lynn Priddy, Dave Eubanks and Josie Welsh. The first session at 8:00 will be on “Identifying Problems in Assessment” and the second at 10:30 will about Identifying Solutions to Problems in Assessment.”