- Welcome and Announcements - 9:30 - 9:40 a.m.
Mr. Edward L. Flippen
Commission Chairman
- The Potential of Student Outcomes Assessment - 9:40 - 10:40 a.m.
Dr. Karl Schilling, Deputy Director, Policy
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
- A National Perspective - 10:40 - 11:30 a.m.
Dr. Thomas Dary Erwin
Director of Student Assessment and Professor of Psychology
James Madison University
BREAK - 11:30 - 11:40 a.m.
- An Inspirational Model - 11:40 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Dr. Georgine Loacker, Director of Assessment and Professor of English
Alverno College
LUNCH - 12:30 - 1:45
Dr. Patricia Cormier, President
Longwood College
- Grades: For What They're Worth, A Presentation on Grade Inflation - 1:45 - 2:05 p.m.
Dr. Brad Wilson, Executive Director
National Association of Scholars
- The History of Assessment in Virginia - 2:05 - 2:20 p.m.
Dr. Donna R. Brodd, Associate Director for Academic Affairs
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
BREAK - 2:20 - 2:30 p.m.
- Panel on Institutional Approaches to Measuring Student Outcomes - 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Moderator - Dr. Jon D. Mikalson, Professor of Classics
University of Virginia
- Assessment as Part of the Institutional Fabric
Dr. Gary A. Kreps, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Graduate Education College of William and Mary
- Assessment as an Accountability Tool
Dr. Karen Gentemann, Director of Institutional Assessment
George Mason University
- Assessment to Improve Learning
Dr. Edward D. Smith, Director of Assessment and Institutional Research
Longwood College
- Assessment as an Opportunity for Teaching
Dr. Sharon N. Robertson, Associate Dean, Curriculum and Enrollment Services
Northern Virginia Community College
- Assessment to Measure Success
Dr. W. E. (Ned) Moomaw, Institutional Assessment and Studies
University of Virginia
- What We've Learned about Quality - 4:00 - 4:30 p.m.
- Concluding Comments and Administrative Matters - 4:30 p.m.
Mr. Edward L. Flippen
Commission Chairperson