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The Academy
of Process Educators is pleased to announce the 2009
Process Education Conference, July 8–10. Our host this
year is Gaston College in North Carolina (less than 20
miles from downtown Charlotte), with Virgil Cox of
Gaston College leading the host campus team. The program
chair is Tris Utschig of Georgia Tech.
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Theme:
Measuring Success in Higher Education
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Reliable and
accurate decisions about reporting and enhancing
performance in higher education depend on the
quality of the measures used to help make those
decisions. Measurement is a critical underlying
requirement for both assessment and evaluation
processes. In an era of calls for increasing
accountability in higher education, measurement
of outcomes needs to occur at many levels. This
conference focuses on measurement in higher
education across contexts ranging from complex
student performances during in-class activities,
to course and program outcomes, and even
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We invite you to consider
submitting a proposal for an interactive workshop,
poster,
or paper dialogue. Full details, including templates and
examples, are
available here.
Interactive Workshops
Workshops at the Process
Education Conference should be designed to model process
education in action. Workshops should be hands-on,
minds-on experiences that will transfer much of the
ownership of the learning to participants through an
emphasis on learning-by-doing in a performance
environment. Participants can expect to work in teams
and explore topics in some depth through facilitated
activities such as learning by inquiry, reflection,
ongoing assessment, and discussion.
Hall of
Innovation Posters
The Hall of Innovation at
the Process Education Conference is a venue for sharing
the "what, why, and how" regarding specific innovations
that the presenters have used in their own teaching and
learning. This is an easy way to share practical ideas
for using different aspects and best practices of
Process Education in a venue designed for
interactivity. These are not alternative forms of
presenting papers, but something like a combination of a
resource fair and a poster session.
Paper
Dialogues
Process Education Conference
paper dialogues contain some traditional elements of
conference presentations such as summaries of major
points in the paper and focus or expansion on subtle
issues. However, to achieve intended learning outcomes
for the audience, paper dialogues also utilize elements
of process education to enhance the experience. This
includes
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The annual Process
Education Conference is sponsored by the Academy of
Process Educators, a non-profit organization of
scholars and practitioners dedicated to the
advancement of scholarship in teaching and learning,
advocacy on key educational issues, the professional
development of educators, and coaching and
mentoring. To learn more or join the Academy of
Process Educators, visit us online at:
www.processeducation.org |
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