ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies some initiatives that pave the way toward building a comprehensive real-time assessment commitment to benefit all currently enrolled students. Case studies illustrate how four universities have launched campus-based initiatives to prepare more faculty and other contributors to student learning to engage collaboratively in real-time student assessment. Focusing on students’ equitable progress requires closing gaps that currently exist between assessment cycles or point-in-time assessment approaches. Closing gaps enables educators to address learners’ needs as they continue to transfer, apply, and integrate their outcomes in different and increasingly more complex contexts. This longitudinal commitment promotes enduring learning. Reflecting the pressing need to ensure that currently enrolled students are equitably achieving program- and degree-level high-quality outcomes, the institutions have initiated and continue to build on campus-based projects or practices that lead to a shared institutional commitment to real-time assessment. The university implemented a variety of collaborative efforts to enhance student success and persistence among first-year students.
