Events
Learning Improvement Summit
The Learning Improvement Summit brings together some of the top assessment practitioners, educational developers, educators, and scholars to develop and expand the promotion of student learning improvement. We investigate ways to connect assessment, teaching, and learning. Why? Because high-quality learning and adaptable skills are needed for today's citizens and should be the goal of higher education.
2022 Summit
The 5th Learning Improvement Summit will be held online on May 6, 7, and 9, 2022. This year’s Summit is seminar style. We anticipate significant engagement and exchanges about the use of learning improvement and envision this as an ideal time to involve colleagues who are new to the ideas that we have been advancing. Participants will discuss three articles and use them as springboards to new and exciting ideas about learning improvement and learning assessment. Articles for the seminar-style discussions:
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Closing the assessment loop by Banta & Blaich (2011, in Change: The magazine of higher learning)
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Refining an approach to assessment for learning improvement by Stitt-Bergh, Kinzie, & Fulcher (2018, in Research & Practice in Assessment)
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Lots of assessment, little improvement? How to fix a broken system by Fulcher & Prendergast (2019, in Trends in assessment: Ideas, opportunities, and issues in higher education).
Summit hosts:
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2022: Online
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2021: Online
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2020: cancelled
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2019: Assessment and Curriculum Support Center, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
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2018: Academic Assessment and the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Auburn University
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2017: Center for Research and Assessment Studies, James Madison University, and Center of Inquiry, Wabash College
2021 Participants
Gianina Baker, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Scott Benson, Washington State University
Katie Boyd, Auburn University
Mitchel Cottenoir, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jodi Fisler, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
Keston Fulcher, James Madison University
Kathleen Gorski, Waubonsee Community College
Errin Heyman, Reach University [planning committee, unable to attend]
Yao Hill, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Jill Kern, Brown University
Jillian Kinzie, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research
Kelsey Kirland, Old Dominion University
Jason Lyons, Christopher Newport University
Julie Morrison, Glendale Community Coll./Maricopa Community Coll.
Christine Robinson, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte
Monica Stitt-Bergh, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Dan Stroud, West Texas A&M
Linda Townsend, Longwood University
Pamela Tracy, Longwood University
Felix Wao, University of Oklahoma
Anne Weiss, Purdue University [not pictured]
2019 Participants
Scott Benson, Washington State University
Charles Blaich, Wabash College
Diane Boyd, Furman University [not pictured]
Chris Coleman, University of Alabama
Cynthia Crimmins, York College of Pennsylvania
Keston Fulcher, James Madison University
Megan Good, Auburn University
Kathleen Gorski, Waubonsee Community College
Yao Hill, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Mays Imad, Pima Community College
Cara Meixner, James Madison University
Michael Reder, Connecticut College
Monica Stitt-Bergh, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Kathy Wise, Wabash College
