Anthology Blog

Take a second and reflect on the ways your institution actively uses data from your course evaluation processes.

When the calendar changed to 2020 and New Year's resolutions were being made, no one in higher ed had any idea of the challenges that lay ahead for the spring semester. Decisions that typically take months or years to make were made in moments. Health and safety became the primary focus, and instructors and students adapted to new methods of teaching and learning.

The summer months provide an opportunity to reset, reflect and re-examine many of our institutional processes. As we strive to make annual assessment meaningful and manageable, we must evolve ongoing processes based on our unique students, curricula, resources and culture.

Within the first hour of almost every assessment consultation session I facilitate, the same question deflates the air in the room: ‘How does your institution use learning data to improve the student experience?’