ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies the six principles of real-time student assessment, and illustrates how campuses have operationalized or are operationalizing these principles to advance currently enrolled students to degree completion. As the six guiding principles of real-time student assessment indicate, disseminating assessment results continuously not only informs internal stakeholders, but also draws them into a shared commitment to improve students’ underperformance patterns along their undergraduate studies. The chapter justifies the relevance of real-time assessment for the currently enrolled students compared with more common point-in-time or cyclical assessment approaches that focus primarily on the work of students who have persisted. A shared commitment to students’ equitable long-term success is anchored in continuously reporting assessment results to track students’ general education and major program outcomes. Based on agreed-upon general education and program-level outcomes and aligned scoring rubrics or other metrics, real-time assessment results are displayed on two dashboards: program-level dashboards and an institution-level dashboard.
