These are our working definitions to help us with shared meaning on assessment issues.
- Alignment
- The goals, interventions, and assessments are linked and support each other.
- Assessment
- A way to generate the evidence we use to make informed decisions.
- Goal
- Our desired accomplishments, written broadly.
- Intervention
- Intentional activities or structures enacted to accomplish a goal or generate change. (Teaching is a kind of intervention.)
- Learning
- A change in knowledge, skills, or attitudes that persists over time.
- Learning Outcome
- A type of goal representing the knowledge, skills or attitudes every learner who successfully completes an educational experience can demonstrate in an observable way.
- Measure
- Qualitative or quantitative evidence indicating the degree, quality or rationale
- Teaching
- Actions to induce a desired change in knowledge, skills, or attitudes in another.
