Trends in Assessment

Stephen Hundley, Ph.D., is Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Planning and Institutional Improvement at IUPUI, an urban-serving institution with 30,000 students. He is also Professor of Organizational Leadership within the Department of Technology Leadership and Communication in IUPUI’s School of Engineering and Technology. Stephen chairs the annual national-level Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, the nation’s oldest and largest higher education event focused on assessment and improvement. He is host of Leading Improvements in Higher Education, a podcast profiling people, initiatives, institutions, and organizations improving conditions in higher education. Stephen is also executive editor of Assessment Update, an award-winning bimonthly periodical from Wiley with a national readership. His prior administrative roles at IUPUI include program director, department chair, and associate dean for academic affairs and undergraduate programs in the School of Engineering and Technology; associate vice chancellor for strategic initiatives in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer; and interim associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education and dean of University College. Stephen earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and a doctorate from American University in Washington, D.C. Susan Kahn, Ph.D., is Director of Planning and Institutional Improvement Initiatives at IUPUI, and also serves as an adjunct faculty member in IUPUI’s Department of English in the School of Liberal Arts and in University College, academic home for IUPUI’s first-year students. In the past, she served as Director of the Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council (now Office of Professional and Instructional Development) for the University of Wisconsin System, and as Senior Academic Planner and Special Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, also at the UW System. After joining IUPUI, she directed the Urban Universities Portfolio Project, a national initiative that produced the first generation of electronic institutional portfolios aimed at demonstrating institutional and educational effectiveness. She also directed IUPUI’s student ePortfolio effort from 2006 until 2018, guiding its development from a fledgling project to a campus-wide initiative designed to engage and empower students in their learning and development and to provide rich evidence for assessment. She co-edited Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Trends in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning (Stylus, 2001). She was the assessment editor for About Campus from 2006-2010 and is currently associate editor of Assessment Update. Susan earned her bachelor’s degree from Smith College and her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Introduction; Part One: Trends in Assessment 1. Movement Afoot: Fostering Discourse on Assessment Scholarship 2. Becoming More HIP: Assessment Trends in High-Impact Learning Practices and Student Success 3. Evolving Practices in the Development and Assessment of Global Learning 4. Assessing Community Engagement 5. Understanding Students Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Trends in Student Affairs Assessment 6. STEM Education and Assessment: Evolving Through Evidence 7. Assessment at the Highest Degree(s): Trends in Graduate and Professional Education 8. Measuring Faculty Learning: Trends in the Assessment of Faculty Development 9. Transforming Assessment, Assessing Transformation: ePortfolio Assessment Trends; Part Two: Looking to the Future 10. Lots of Assessment, Little Improvement? How to Fix the Broken System 11. Using Assessment Trends in Planning, Decision-Making, and Improvement 12. Meta-Trends in Assessment: Perspectives, Analyses, and Future Directions