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Educator Preparation and Assessment Educator Preparation and Assessment

• Assisting faculty in translating national accreditation and curriculum
  standards into collaborative unit structures, program design, curriculum frameworks, and student expectations
• Developing performance-based assessment systems for individual,
  program, and unit accountability
• Designing, implementing, scoring, and using data from educator
  portfolio assessment to improve performance
• Assisting faculty in developing and/or assessing public school/higher
  education/state agency collaboratives

Design, Implementation, and Assessment of Efforts to Improve Post-Secondary Mathematics, Science, and Technology Instruction

• Assisting Arts & Science faculty in design, implementation, and
  assessment of individual and collaborative inquiry-based approaches
  to instruction
• Designing, assessing and analyzing impact of higher-education
  outreach to high school teachers

Development and Assessment of Competencies and Performance Standards

• Assisting faculty across the curriculum in the identification and
  assessment of measurable competencies emphasizing information
  literacy, application, higher-order thinking, critical thinking, and
  problem-solving
• Assisting faculty in in identifying and implementing curriculum and
  instructional strategies to facilitate student development of skills in
  collaboration, application, higher-order thinking, critical-thinking, and
  problem-solving
• Assisting faculty in the selection and/or development of formative and summative assessment instruments