Our Next Speaker:
Active Learning Institute
Nils Peterson
Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching and
Learning with Technology, Washington State
Educause Solutions in Action
University
“Reaching and Engaging Today's Learners”
April 20, 2009
Barbara Knauff, Senior Instructional
Harvesting Gradebook
Technologist
Academic Computing, Dartmouth College
Origin of Harvesting Gradebook
Idea
• The Future of Web 2.0, interview with
Gary Brown. Campus Technology, Feb
2008.
---- stuff happened here ----
• Authentic assessment of learning in global
contexts, AAC&U round table, January
2009
• ePortfolios, the Harvesting Gradebook,
Accountability, and Community. Campus
Technology, Feb 2009.
Harvesting Gradebook data can be
used in the following ways:
• Students analyze their own performance and growth
• Faculty analyze the utility of their assignments in
facilitating student learning
• Faculty analyze their assignments’ alignment with
program goals
• Academic programs analyze courses relative to
program goals
• Community (employers, grad school, society)
examine and discuss both the goals and the
success of programs
• Demonstration of reliability in each of the
assessments above
Test Drive the Harvesting
Gradebook
http://wsuctlt.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/tes
t-drive-the-harvesting-gradebook/
Center for Teaching Learning and
Technology
Washington State University
wsuctlt.wordpress.com