{"id":4251,"date":"2022-01-31T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ele.local\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2022-01-31T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:16:14","slug":"4-tips-for-assessing-students-with-care-to-remove-barriers-to-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/4-tips-for-assessing-students-with-care-to-remove-barriers-to-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Tips for Assessing Students with Care to Remove Barriers to Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"

As colleges and universities strive to remove barriers to equity for minoritized and poverty-affected students, it\u2019s essential to understand the ways in which assessment can contribute to those barriers.<\/span><\/p>\n

That was the subject of <\/span>Assessing Students with Care<\/span><\/i>, the second in a series of Disciplinary Communities of Practice webinars offered in November and December 2021 by the Online Learning Consortium, the Association of Public & Land-grant Universities, and Achieving the Dream, in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae.<\/span><\/p>\n

Th<\/span>e Communities of Practice initiative<\/a> brings together faculty and instructional staff in writing, math, biology, and chemistry to collaborate with like-minded peers across institutions. They identify, share, and develop discipline-specific teaching and learning strategies, with a focus on effective and equitable digital learning and teaching with technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

Megan Tesene, <\/span>Director of the Personalized Learning Consortium at APLU, <\/span>said during the <\/span>Assessing Students with Care<\/span><\/i> webinar that the COVID-19 pandemic has created a new normal where \u201cthe impetus was on us to be more caring and compassionate, especially during this crisis \u2014 which frankly we should be considering always, not just in a global pandemic. Folks have been learning how to engage students a little bit differently in ways that don’t necessarily look like the traditional model and continue those practices or grow them moving forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae and the network partners include many of these new strategies in the<\/span> Caring for Students Playbook<\/a><\/em>, which provides instructors with guidance for centering student care in their teaching. The playbook also includes resources on the topic of the first webinar in the series<\/span>, reimagining and equitizing course syllabi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Presenters and participants in the <\/span>Assessing Students with Care<\/span><\/i> webinar offered several principles for equity-centered academic evaluation.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Align assessment needs and care<\/h2>\n

Nicole Weber, Associate Vice President of Learning at OLC, said that as college and university instructors design their courses, \u201cCentering care in our assessments really starts with student needs and their lived experiences \u2014 where they are and also where they want to go. This is incredibly important as we support them in their personal growth and in their trajectory toward their career and contributions to the world as educated citizens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n