ABSTRACT
Some teaching centers have assessment offices on their campuses and collaborate regularly with them. This chapter concerns the strategies Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) uses to get involved in curricular reform and assessment, the ways the authors try to make those processes succeed, the range of services authors provide, and the value to the academic units in having CRLT support. With occasional exceptions, the curriculum and assessment literature rarely mentions the value of partnering with teaching centers. Given the numerous barriers to assessment and curricular reform, teaching centers have an important role in helping to construct institutional improvement processes. There is a catch-22 about the involvement of teaching centers in curricular reform and assessment. Moreover, instructional grants administered by teaching centers can be used to leverage curricular reform and assessment initiatives further.
