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.
2007
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
2006
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
2005
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
2004
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
2003
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
2002
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
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
Archived issues prior to 2001