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.
Lawrence University and President Jill Beck hosted a two-day conference on tutorial education on Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1, 2007. The conference, titled Tutorial Education: History, Pedagogy, and Evolution, examined current practices in tutorial education at Oxford University, Williams College, Lawrence University, College of Wooster, Sarah Lawrence College, and Sewanee, College of the South.
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