eWAG News
Below are links to newsletters published by the Assessment, Teaching & Learning office of the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges. Bullets indicate the key articles for each month. Additional items, e.g. links to outside articles, announcements, resource materials, etc.can be viewed by clicking on that month’s issue.
May/June 2007
- Moore’s Musings: Painting by Numbers
- Effective Ways to Promote Learning and Program Improvement
- ePortfolios Are About Learning
- Reflections from “Creating Significant Learning Experiences: The 2007 PNW Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference”
- To Everything There Is a Season…
April 2007
- Creating Significant Learning Experiences: The 2007 PNW Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference
March 2007
- Moore’s Musings: On Triage and Trust
- Creating Significant Learning Experiences: The 2007 PNW Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference
February 2007
- Moore’s Musings: Let’s Defend Teaching Not Lecturing
- Good Stories for Good Learning Enters Third Year
- Teaching Laboratories: A Professional Developmental Model for Faculty and Administrators
- Creating Significant Learning Experiences: The 2007 PNW Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference
January 2007
- Moore’s Musings: Let’s Focus More on Failure
- Creating Significant Learning Experiences”: The 2007 PNW Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference
December
- Moore’s Musings: Guilty Bystanders
October
- Moore’s Musings: Working to Avoid Shallow ‘Resting Places’
May/June
- Moore’s Musings: Creating ’Moments of Meeting
- Addressing Context, Content and Correctness: Examining Conflicts in Examining Writing
- Big Ideas Project: Two Reflections
- Outcomes 101 Alumni Reminisce
- Mapping General Education Outcomes with Dr. Ruth Stiehl
March
- Moore’s Musings: On Networks and Shell Games
- An Observation from the Two-Year Assessment Liaison Workshop
- 2006 Teaching and Learning Conference
Jan
- Moore’s Musings: Moments and Memories That Matter
November
- Moore’s Musings: On Collective Responsibility, Creative Obligation and the Virtue of Impatience
- College Readiness Workshop
- Mapping Student Learning to Make Program and Department Decisions
June
- Moore's Musings: Clarifying and Connecting Multiple Paradigm Shifts - Toward Real Improvement in Higher Education Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
- The Current State of Writing Assessment: How to Tell If Our Students Write Well
May
- Moore's Musings: Reflections on the 'Creating Effective Learning Environments' Conference
- Big Ideas Project
April
- Moore's Musings: Staying the Course with Standards and Assessment - The Challenges of Loosely-Coupled Systems
- Including Alternative Assessments in Competency-based Education
March
- Moore's Musings: Shouting Will Not Help
- Classroom Strategy: Redefining Writing in Hypertext in the Composition Class
February
- Moore's Musings: The Bias Against "Bias": In Defense of Subjectivity
- Classroom Strategy: Giving Feedback that Promotes Learning
January
- Moore's Musings: A Developmental Perspective on the Theology of Assessment: Moving from Received Belief to Creative Faith
- Creating Effective Learning Environments: A Teaching & Learning Conference
- The Graduates Didn't Leave
- Classroom Strategy: Five Ways to Promote Deep Learning, Richard Felder, North Carolina State University
December
- Moore's Musings: Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility
- Classroom Strategy: English Composition
- An Assessment for Multivariable Calculus: An Annotated Example
October
- Moore's Musings: It's Campaign Season
- Collaborations, Connections, Diversity and Assessment
- The Teachable Moment
June
- Moore's Musings: Reprint of an article from October 1995, "Moving General Education and Assessment from the Margins to the Middle"
- Composition in the New Millennium
- Classroom Assessment Projects - Focusing on a College's Core Learning Ability 'Integrating' (also see May 2004)
- Using "Think Alouds" to Evaluate Deep Understanding
May
- Moore's Musings: 2004 Assessment Reflections
- Classroom Assessment Projects - Focusing on a College's Core Learning Ability 'Integrating'
April
- Moore's Musings: The Transition Math Project Moves Forward
- Welcome to the Speech Communication Discussion Forum
- Barbara's "Cream of the Crop" Assessment Ideas
March
- Moore's Musings: Student Learning Outcomes Assessment - Is the Glass Half-full or Half-Empty? plus a Potpourri of other items
- Diagnosis as a Framework for Teaching
- Transition Mathematics Project Proposal
- Exploring What it Means to be "College Ready"
- Barbara's "Cream of the Crop" Assessment Ideas
January/February
- Moore's Musings: Assessment Liaison Winter 2004 Retreat - Connecting Assessment, Teaching and Learning
- Assessment and Accreditation: Cassandra's Warning
- Barbara's "Cream of the Crop" Assessment Ideas
November
- Moore's Musings: Retention for What? Understanding, Promoting and Assessing the 'Learning' in Learning Communities
- A Tool Not to be Wasted: A Book Review of McCabe's "No One to Waste"
October
- Moore's Musings: Outcomes 101
- Big Ideas Project
- Fancy Does Not a Teacher Make
- Workshop on Supporting Student Writing and Quantitative Concepts
March
- Moore's Musings: Assessment as "Busy Work": An Exchange
- Barbara's "Cream of the Crop" Assessment Ideas
- Inside the 'Black Box': Classroom Assignments and Assessment Worth Sharing
January/February
- Moore's Musings: We Lose a Dear Friend
- Barbara's "Cream of the Crop" Assessment Ideas
December
- Moore's Musings: Exploring the Nature and Limits of the Assessment/Accountability Partnership, Part II - A Quality Approach to Assessing Student Learning Outcomes
- Barbara's "Cream of the Crop" Assessment Ideas
November
- Moore's Musings: Exploring the Nature and Limits of the Assessment/Accountability Partnership, Part I - Gloom, Hope and a Line in the Sand
- Barbara's "Cream of the Crop" Assessment Ideas
October
- Moore's Musings: Assessment, Fall 2002 - Challenges and Opportunities
- Assessment and Accreditation
May/June
- Moore's Musings: A Case for Improving Student Learning through an Emphasis on Classroom Assessments
- My Daughter, the 'A' Student
March
- Moore's Musings: Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here...?
February
- Moore's Musings: An Interview with Glen Rogers and William Rickards, Alverno College, on Program Assessment
January
- Moore's Musings: No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
November/December
- Moore's Musings: Developing Evidence on Learning that Lasts - The D.E.L.L. Project
October
- Moore's Musings: Using Accreditation to Achieve the Promise of the Assessment Movement in an Age of Accountability
May
- Moore's Musings:Standards (Again)
- Conference 2001: Using Assessment to Build Bridges
April
- Moore's Musings: What We Know and How We Know It
- The Synergy Between Scholarship and Program Assessment
March - Moore's Musings:Educational Standards - To Bash or Not to Bash, That Is the Question
February
- No Moore's Musings
- What's the Principle [1]: A Classroom Assessment Technique
- College Spotlight: Returning to Norma after Accreditation
January
- Moore's Musings: Focusing Standards on the 'Black Box' of the Classroom
- Feature Article: Fair Assessment Practices - Giving Students Equitable Opportunities to Demonstrate Learning
- What's Up at Renton? Skill Standards Curriculum Development Leads to Lively Discussion of Performance Indicators
For archived issues prior to 2001, please go to http://168.156.9.142/college/_e-assessewagarchives.aspx