From Results to Innovation:

A Bias towards Action

SLO-NetMarch 6, 2015 Robert J. Pacheco, Ed.D.

bob@assessmentcommons.org

Places I Hang Out

• Listservs– Learning Assessment– Learning Outcomes– Accreditation– ASSESS University of Kentucky (AALHE)

• Resources– www.rpgroup.org– www.asssessmentcommons.org

• Blog– In the Oven

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I’m most at home…

• In the cerebral, the ideas, the transition• Reading about and learning from creative, smart

people doing remarkable things• Feeling that the most important thing is

something I don’t know

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That’s why I am glad I am here•I like being around smart people•I like being around passionate people•I like being around people who value their time

So How Does That Impact Our Time Today

1. Stanford d-school thinking (IDEO)

2. Ernesto Sirolli https://www.ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_want_to_help_someone_shut_up_and_listen

3. Peter Thiel

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http://www.creativeconfidence.com

http://dschool.stanford.edu/

http://zerotoonebook.com/

Design Thinking

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What Will We Do Today?

Ideation

Creating Choices• Experiment and Take Risks• Lead to Broad Learning Strategies• Think Expansively

List Possibilities• From the ethereal to the boots on the ground• Identify themes from collective thought

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Cluster

Cluster findings into main themes

Create the framework for strategies

Prepare for the design of prototypes that will help us reach our wishes

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Vote

Identify priorities

Set ideas into action

Synthesize our thinking

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What Will We Do Today?

What Will Be Our Output?

11Source, SCUP

What is Ideation?

Society for College and University Planning12

Design Challenge

How do we fold in the use of assessment findings to innovate and create new ways for students to learn and break the findings down to see if assure equitable outcomes for all students….

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The Five Reasons We Assess

• To become masters of our craft, studying the learning process in the discipline and in the larger learning arenas and discovering new ways and methods to teach.

• To determine the extent to which the curriculum is working (design and implementation).

• To inform the decisions as to where time, energy and/or money should be repurposed for continuous improvement in learning.

• To help us become a learning organization that is adaptive and nimble for the 21st Century (Kezar USC, Drucker CGU, Senge MIT)

• To help demonstrate our quality assurance pledge to the community we serve.

Ready?Headline Your Thoughts

Given our limitations, budget, time, facilities, institutional buy in… and our need to use results to

innovate, and break down the findings for equitable outcomes….

I wish…..

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Ground Rules

• Wish for the Moon• Actively Listen to Others• Headline Your Thoughts• Surprise Yourself• Everyone Shares• Leave Your Role at the Door

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Ready?Headline Your Thoughts

Given our limitations, budget, time, facilities, institutional buy in… and our need to use results to

innovate, and break down the findings for equitable outcomes….

I wish…..

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p.s., keep thinking, keep writing

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Cluster

What are the themes we are discovering?

Voting…

• Take your pad/notes with you• Write down the numbers of the ideas you feel

have the potential to best address our challenge– Six votes, one is a passion. The one thing we need to

do to address this challenge

• Place your dots by your votes

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Source, SCUP

Next Steps

Take our thinking to the field

Brainstorm strategies and prototypes for getting the job done.

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