Bettering Assessment Practices through Reflection and Collaboration

Abstract

Although the COVID-19 situation was stressful for all faculty, staff, and students at Mercyhurst University, it provided a much-needed opportunity to improve assessment practices across the institution. Changing assessment reporting procedures for the 2019-2020 academic year to a more reflective, collaborative model is helping to shift faculty perceptions of assessment to collective rather than isolated, student-centered rather than administratively mandated, and intentional rather than incidental.