Assessing the Practices of Public Scholarship (APPS)

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Assessing the Practices of Public Scholarship (APPS) – a research group of Imagining America – is a collective of practitioner-scholar-artists, who strive to boldly change the conversation around the assessment and evaluation of community engagement, embracing democratic values, equity, and participatory ways of knowing. Together, APPS: • Collects, adapts, creates, and disseminate frameworks and tools that enable democratically engaged approaches to assessment at varying scales and in diverse contexts. • Identifies and shares case studies, stories, and critical reflections that illuminate democratically engaged assessment values, approaches, and uses. • Engages IA members and broader communities of assessment practice in demonstration projects related to DEA. • Co-creates original scholarship and analysis that synthesizes extant and emergent knowledge from this initiative for a wider audience. • Curates and develops resources and facilitate learning opportunities for members through IA’s convenings, publications, and other forums.

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    Transforming Assessment Practice Through the Lens of Democratic Engagement - handouts
    (2018) Price, Mary F.; Bandy, J.; Clayton, P.H.; Gale, S.; Metzker, J.
    Is your assessment practice value-laden, value-free or value-neutral? What role do your own value commitments play when you design learning assessments or program evaluation metrics? What impact do values have on outcomes? This session introduces an emerging framework, Democratically Engaged Assessment (DEA) that attends to these questions. DEA reimagines assessment as a cultural practice through which we can transform our universities, our communities, and ourselves. Participants will use the model to surface values inherent in our assessments and explore implications of using the framework to inform how we assess and what becomes the focus of assessment with students, faculty, staff, community partners, and institutions.
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    Transforming Assessment Practice Through the Lens of Democratic Engagement - PPT
    (2018) Price, Mary F.; Bandy, J.; Clayton, P. H.; Gale, S.; Metzker, J.
    Is your assessment practice value-laden, value-free or value-neutral? What role do your own value commitments play when you design learning assessments or program evaluation metrics? What impact do values have on outcomes? This session introduces an emerging framework, Democratically Engaged Assessment (DEA) that attends to these questions. DEA reimagines assessment as a cultural practice through which we can transform our universities, our communities, and ourselves. Participants will use the model to surface values inherent in our assessments and explore implications of using the framework to inform how we assess and what becomes the focus of assessment with students, faculty, staff, community partners, and institutions.
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    Democratically engaged assessment: Reimagining the purposes and practices of assessment in community engagement
    (2018) Bandy, J.; Price, Mary F.; Clayton, P. H.; Metzker, J.; Nigro, G.; Stanlick, S.; Etheridge Woodson, S.; Bartel, A.; Gale, S.
    This document is a project of reclamation and transformation, one that is both ongoing and rooted in years of dialogue within Imagining America and the work of its Assessing Practices of Public Scholarship research group (APPS). It emerges from our own experiences with assessment related to community engagement and from those of many other colleagues on campuses and in diverse communities. It is intended to bring together those who wish to reimagine assessment in light of its civic potential — to develop what we refer to as Democratically Engaged Assessment (DEA).