Dr. Peggy Maki
Dr. Peggy Maki is higher education consultant specializing in assisting institutions integrate assessment of student learning into educational practices. Formerly Senior Scholar and Director of Assessment at the AAHE, Associate Director of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., she has also served as a Dean and Chair at various institutions. Dr. Maki’s recent book, The Assessment of Doctoral Education: Emerging Criteria and New Models for Improving Outcomes, offers colleges and universities a framework and tools to design an effective and collaborative assessment process appropriate for their culture and institution. It encapsulates the approach that Peggy Maki has refined through hundreds of successful workshops. She presents extensive examples of processes, strategies and campus practices, as well as key resources, guides, worksheets, and exercises -- to assist all stakeholders in the institution to develop and sustain assessment of student learning as an integral and systematic core institutional process. This book sets the assessment of learning within the twin contexts of: (1) the level of a program, department, division, or school within an institution; and (2) the level of an institution, based on its mission statement, educational philosophy, and educational objectives. Each chapter explores ways to position assessment within program- and institutional-level processes, decisions, structures, practices, and channels of communication. In her presentation, Dr. Maki will introduce a process that any campus can adapt and use to engage all its constituencies -- institutional leaders, faculty, staff, administrators, students and those in governance -- constructively to forge a vision and commitment to action. (http://www.peggymaki.com)