Call for Participation

Best Practices for Assessment, Reporting, and Accreditation

Omni Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas
June 21-23, 2010

Tk20 is excited to collaborate with our users for the Tk20 2010 User Conference. User participation will be an important part of the conference and we would like to invite our users to share their experiences on their use of the system for assessment, data collection, and reporting leading to accreditation.

The 2010 conference theme is "Best Practices for Assessment, Reporting, and Accreditation." We've taken this theme and broken it into three thematic strands. We invite all Tk20 users to submit a brief abstract for his/her proposed session. Sessions should aim to address one of the thematic strands, which are:

System adoption at the unit: challenges and best practices

Topic suggestions:

• Discussion of processes or strategies you have developed that might help other institutions
• Discussion of how you approached your initial use of the system and what you might have changed based on the experience

System setup for data collection: Best practices for setup and use of the system's assessment capabilities

Topic suggestions:

• Examples of Rubrics, Portfolio Templates, Field Experience Templates or other items within CampusTools and how you have changed them or improved upon them based on your experience with the system
• Discussion of how you have changed or improved assessment practices using data collected through the Tk20 system.

Evidences and reporting for SPAs and accreditation

Topic suggestions:

• Discussion of how you have developed or changed your assessment instruments to achieve more meaningful reports
• Discussion on how you have used your reports to implement change in your programs
• Discussion on how your college used Tk20 software to gain accreditation
• Discussion of lessons learned from the accreditation review process
• Discussion of processes or strategies you have developed or used to gain accreditation that might help other institutions

Please plan for your session to last 45-50 minutes.

Please submit your presentation information by April 30, 2010 to rbell@tk20.com.

Presentation information should include:

• presentation title
• description for the program book (around 50 words)
• presenter name(s), title(s), and institution(s)
• presentation duration

Presentation materials and handouts should also be sent for inclusion on the conference CD that will be distributed to the attendees.

Please contact rbell@tk20.com with any questions.