Hi,

My job is to help the discussion of the issues raised by the papers in this session. So please read the two papers, and my commentary. As you'll see, I've tried to start the discussion by raising some questions for the two authors and some additional questions for all of us.

Here, for example, is one of those questions for all participants in this session:

How engaged is your instructional staff in the improvement of assessment?  For example, what fraction of your instructors have attended more than one assessment training session or event over the years? What strategies seem most promising for engaging a larger fraction of your academic staff in improving assessment of learning?

Steve Ehrmann, The TLT Group

Takoma Park, MD, USA