Assessment Strategies -- WHAT'S THE QUESTION?

FOUR ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES: MEASURING GOAL ATTAINMENT

Measuring goal attainment, or “Internal Referencing Assessment,” requires clear goals and educational objectives.  Unlike the first two approaches, this question requires a more formative student-centered emphasis.  This approach often attempts to measure the congruence between objectives and actual performance and uses quantitative evidence only to the extent that goals and objectives can be quantified.  More commonly, professional judgment evidence is utilized.

Advantages

• Requires clear goals and educational objectives.
• Recognizes the longitudinal and formative nature of the educational process.
• Is easily tailored to the local curriculum and the needs of particular students.
• This is a relevant question for most students and institutions.
• Likely to be an effective form of evaluation.

• Likely to be an inefficient form of evaluation requiring extra faculty effort.
• Provides little useful summative information to external constituencies.

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