2023 Assessment Awards Announced

• Staff
• 03/06/2024

The 2023 Assessment Awards recognize those that provide exemplars of best practice, as well as demonstrate consistency in valuing, documenting, and continuing their own professional development in continuous teaching and student learning improvement.  

 

Members of the Curricular and Co-curricular Assessment Committees, as well as college Deans, submitted nominations for the 2023 Assessment Awards.  From these nominations, members of the HLC Assessment Academy Team ranked nominees.  These rankings were used to identify winners for each award.  Recipients receive an award and an honorarium.

Assessment Awards

Excellence in Curricular Assessment

This award recognizes a department or individual in curricular assessment that provides the exemplar of an effective, comprehensive assessment practitioner and embodiment of the RVC Guidelines for Assessment for Student Learning.  The award recognizes multi-year consistency in documentation that illustrates assessment efforts from measures to actions and changes in teaching and learning to foster student success.  Furthermore, this award recognizes those that regularly participate in assessment events, motivates and engages others in assessment efforts, and advances the sharing of continuous improvement of learning stories (SCILS).  

The 2023 recipient of the Excellence in Curricular Assessment award is Suzanne Miller. 

Note:  No Excellence in Co-curricular Assessment Award is being given this year.

Curricular Assessment Champion

This award recognizes an individual in curricular and co-curricular assessment that demonstrates effective leadership for improving teaching and learning through assessment.  The award recognizes an individual that has demonstrated the RVC Guidelines for Assessment for Student Learning for multiple years in their leadership.  The award recognizes comprehensive documentation that illustrates assessment efforts from measures to actions and changes in teaching and learning to foster student success.  Furthermore, this award recognizes those that regularly participate in the development of or lead, as well as attend, assessment events; motivates and engages others in assessment efforts; and advances the sharing of continuous improvement of learning stories (SCILS) by sharing their own and encouraging others to do so.

The 2023 recipient of the Curricular Assessment Champion award is Danielle Hardesty. 

Co-curricular Assessment Champion

This award recognizes an individual in co-curricular assessment that demonstrates effective leadership for improving programming and events through assessment for student learning.  The award recognizes an individual that has demonstrated the RVC Guidelines for Assessment for Student Learning for multiple years in their leadership.  The award recognizes comprehensive documentation that illustrates assessment efforts from measures to actions and changes in teaching and learning to foster student success.  Furthermore, this award recognizes those that regularly participate in the development of or lead, as well as attend, assessment events; motivates and engages others in assessment efforts; and advances the sharing of continuous improvement of learning stories (SCILS) by sharing their own and encouraging others to do so.

The 2023 recipient of the Co-curricular Assessment Champion award is Terrica Huntley. 

Emerging Curricular Assessment Star

This award recognizes an individual in curricular or co-curricular assessment that demonstrates professional engagement and growth in improving teaching and learning through assessment.  The award recognizes efforts to improve courses, teaching, and learning through assessment for student learning as supported by the RVC Guidelines for Assessment for Student Learning.  Furthermore, this award recognizes those that improve documentation of assessment, participate in assessment professional development events to enhance their understanding and practice of assessment, and uses the advances the sharing of continuous improvement of learning stories (SCILS) to improve teaching and learning in their own courses or discipline/program. 

The 2023 recipient of the Emerging Curricular Assessment Star award is William Isham. 

Emerging Co-Curricular Assessment Star

This award recognizes an individual in co-curricular assessment that demonstrates professional engagement and growth in improving teaching and learning through assessment.  The award recognizes efforts to improve programming and events through assessment for student learning as supported by the RVC Guidelines for Assessment for Student Learning.  Furthermore, this award recognizes those that improve documentation of assessment, participate in assessment professional development events to enhance their understanding and practice of assessment, and uses the advances the sharing of continuous improvement of learning stories (SCILS) to improve teaching and learning in their own courses or discipline/program. 

The 2023 recipient of the Emerging Co-curricular Assessment Star award is Allison Taylor.