Higher Education Assessment Provider Chalk & Wire Presenting Best Practices at AAC&U’s 2015 Annual Meeting

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Jan 20, 2015, 08:00 ET


Ridgeway, Ontario (PRWEB) January 20, 2015 -- Chalk & Wire, the most trusted higher education assessment platform, announced today that its Director of Research and System Analysis, Dr. Thelma Seyferth, will lead two sessions at the Association of American Colleges & Universities’ (AAC&U) 2015 Annual Meeting, January 21 – 24, in Washington, D.C.

Seyferth’s first presentation, “The Development and Implementation of Chalk & Wire’s CoreValidity™ Toolkit,” will offer assessment best practices including client case studies and will highlight the complexities of gaining faculty buy-in and broadening the scope of understanding of standards-based assessment. Rachel Bailey Jones, assistant professor at Nazareth College, will co-present with Seyferth.

“We are pleased to collaborate with our partner Nazareth College to share our collective insights at AAC&U’s Centennial Annual Meeting—‘Liberal Education, Global Flourishing, and the Equity Imperative,’ said Seyferth.

In addition, Seyferth will present “Using Chalk & Wire’s CoreValidity™ Reporting Tools.” This includes helping institutions examine rubrics for accurate and reliable measurement and offering solutions to achieve a common assessment language across campus.

A pioneer of higher education assessment, over the last 20 years Chalk & Wire has delivered a research-based approach to assessment with a unified platform that helps institutions demonstrate student competency and improve the evaluation of student learning outcomes.

For more, visit http://www.chalkandwire.com.

About Chalk & Wire
With a market-changing, research-based approach to higher education assessment, Chalk & Wire has helped institutions demonstrate student competency and improve the evaluation of learning outcomes for nearly 20 years. To increase the validity of assessment data, Chalk & Wire’s market-leading assessment platform is built on its CoreValidity™ process, which drives alignment between faculty and leadership through a unified assessment language and raises inter-rater reliability earlier in the process. Chalk & Wire takes a consultative approach to helping institutions prove their value and efficacy as well as their ability to prepare students for their post-graduate pursuits. For more, visit http://www.chalkandwire.com.

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Jennifer Mirabile, Young & Associates, +1 (724) 772-2038, [email protected]