The focus of this session was program principles. Because our assessment-in-community methodology is based on students’ evaluations whether or not a program’s foundational principles are being reflected in practice, we discussed the importance of making our program principles, not only reflective of the importance of community/collaboration in our respective programs, but also written in accessible language for students. Participants drafted some of these principles, and shared them with the group for informal feedback.

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At this session, we continued discussing individuals’ progress with their assessment-in-community project ideas. One idea that had emerged in a prior session was the possibility of students becoming facilitators of group assessment conversations. We discussed what a student-led methodology might look like based on the particulars of some participants’ projects. We also raised some additional issues to consider concerning methodology, notably how we might account for participants’ subjectivities in our data analyses.

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In this session, we followed up on participants’ progress on their Assessment-in-Community projects. We also began to discuss the ins and outs of data collection and analysis that places students’ voices front and center.

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