The Current and Future State of the Integration of Assessment and Educational Development

Abstract

Articles over the past few years have suggested the value of partnership and collaboration between educational development and the assessment of student learning. A mixed-method survey study was designed to investigate the current degree of integration of educational development work with work on the assessment of student learning. The survey was sent to educational development leaders at separate institutions and included survey items with both closed-ended responses (scaled items, demographic items, etc.) and open-ended responses. The results revealed a diversity of the level of integration of assessment and educational development across institutions, as well as differences in the perceived value of such integration. In addition, the results suggested factors that may impact the likelihood of institutions to support a fuller integration of the work of these two professional fields.