12: Creating a Culture of Formative Assessment: The Teaching Excellence and Assessment Partnership Project

Abstract

In ayear-long, grant-supported collaborative effort, St. Cloud State University's Assessment Office and Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence created a Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)faculty development project. T7Jis project was targetedatdepartments across campus at St. Cloud State University, with the intent ofcreating auniversity climate cfformatiue assessment while improving teaching and learning. T7Jis article describes the purposes, stages ifimplementation, andresults ifthe project asmeasured l!J a pre-test andpost-test survey. The pre-andpost-test sunxysindicate that theproject was highly effective inimpacting the USt ifCATs among participants andtheir departmental colleagues.