AALHE Annual Conference

Call for Papers

AALHE’s pre-conference workshops are designed to engage assessment practitioners in higher education with interactive professional development that helps them, and the profession, better understand assessment as a field and practice. In keeping with the 2020 Conference Theme “The Impact of Assessment on Equity in Higher Education”, we call for and welcome proposals for pre-conference workshops that focus on models, practice, or research in the assessment of learning in higher education, within the following tracks:

Designing Quality Assessment: This track presents sessions that provide guidance and examples of quality assessment in academic programs, including interdisciplinary, competency-based, and certificate programs.

Assessment for Institutional Effectiveness. This track presents sessions that address how assessment professionals can link metrics gathered for Institutional Research and external audiences to inform efforts focused more directly on the improvement of student learning.

Engaging the Campus for Quality Assessment: This track presents sessions that provide practices and models of campus-wide organizational structures, systems and processes such as collaborative communities, culture creation, and institution-wide systems processes at the macro level.

Evaluating the Quality of Methodologies and Data Analyses. This track presents sessions on how we, as a profession, evaluate models, tools, processes, and information for quality. This includes quality evaluation methodologies, analytical approaches, data interpretation and use, and issues related to validity, reliability and fairness. Submissions that address the role of assessment for improving equity and inclusion in higher education are encouraged.