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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">Friends and Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">Two recent publications on assessment have greatly distressed me. The first is “</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/An-Insider-s-Take-on/242235"><span style="color:#0070C0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">An
Insider’s Take on Assessment: It May Be Worse than You Thought</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">,” and the second is “</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/opinion/sunday/colleges-measure-learning-outcomes.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The
Misguided Drive to Measure Learning Outcomes</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">.”<br>
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Rather than me writing a diatribe in response that no one will read, I want to provide our system with the opportunity to engage in a true dialogue (not just shouting arguments at each other) about assessment. My goal is not to be proved right, but that we
engage in the kind of professional learning opportunities that lead us to the kind of transformative change our students (and our practitioners!) deserve.<br>
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Furthermore, my assessment literacy is still very much in development. Therefore, I asked Pat Hutchings, Senior Scholar at NILOA (who is cited in the second article), and arguably the foremost mind in the nation on assessment,
<b><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">to facilitate a very special concurrent session on assessment at the upcoming </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#0070C0;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><a href="https://goo.gl/nt8ATm"><span style="color:#0070C0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">2018
ATL Conference</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">.<br>
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As Pat has worked with many of our colleges at <a href="http://wacenter.evergreen.edu/teaching-and-learning-national-institute">
Using Evidence for Improvement</a> as resource faculty (and she attended several sessions at last year’s ATL to ensure her plenary session was responsive to what is actually happening in our state), this session is custom designed for our individual and collective
context. <br>
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This unique opportunity will offer participants an opportunity examine an emergent model—an “assessment reboot”—that can help make assessment a valuable part of the regular work of teaching and learning rather than an add-on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">Read More</span></b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">:
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<b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Register for the Conference</span></b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">:
<span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="https://goo.gl/BLX6MQ"><span style="color:#0070C0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">https://goo.gl/BLX6MQ</span></a></span><span style="color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Whetham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#003764">Program Administrator, Assessment, Teaching, and Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">• o: 360-704-4354 • c: 206.310.1291<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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