The purpose of this two-year project (September 1, 2008-August 31, 2010) is to develop and test a method for the formative and summative assessment of tutorial education in a consortium of three liberal arts colleges: Lawrence University; College of Wooster; and Williams College. Although there is general agreement that tutorials in liberal arts subjects, including the visual and performing arts, support students' habits of mind and abilities to think independently and other self-regulated learning behaviors, the participating colleges lack methods for assessing student work for these outcomes. Faculty and administrative representatives of the colleges will develop a shared assessment model (SAM) in a face-to-face workshop in fall of 2008 and test the model in Winter/Spring 2009.
The research project draws upon papers delivered at the Lawrence University Workshop on Tutorial Education Assessment March 31-April 1, 2007.
Co-Principal Investigators
Lawrence University
- Robert J. Beck, Visiting Professor of Education
- William F. Skinner, Director of Research Administration
Faculty Participants
The College of Wooster
- Nancy Grace, Professor of English
- Pamela Pierce, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Lawrence University
- Rob Neilson, Associate Professor of Art
- Ron Peck, Assistant Professor of Biology
- Jerald E. Podair, Professor of History
- Claudena Skran, Associate Professor of Government
Williams College
- Stefanie Solum, Associate Professor of Art
- Christopher Nugent, Assistant Professor of Chinese
St. John's Annapolis
- Joseph Macfarland, Tutor (Observer)
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