Transformative Assessment in the Educational Process

Colleen Carmean
Director of Consulting Services for Information Technology
Arizona State University West and EDUCAUSE NLII Fellow

Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

Robin Zuniga
Associate Director, The Flashlight Program
The TLT Group

Many institutions seek to collect data on the impact that their large investments in information technology have made on their campuses. The Transformative Assessment Project (TAP) provides a framework for institutions to develop assessment strategies tailored to their institutional missions and programs. The project encourages institutional teams who are assessing the impact of technology on teaching and learning to align their assessment activities with institutional goals. Through an in-person focus session and online course/community, institutions participated in the first offering of TAP in the spring of 2002.

The project was developed as a collaborative initiative of EDUCAUSE’s National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), CNI, and the Flashlight Program of the TLT Group. This session will include a discussion of the concept of transformative assesment, a description of the project, and a report on one campus’s implementation of TAP.