Transfiguring Assessment: Promoting Inventive Thinking (TAPIT)

November 16, 2013

For nearly a decade, a team of faculty, administrators, and staff at Tunxis Community College worked on a comprehensive system of student and institutional assessment to meet educational outcomes mandates set by the College’s accreditors and other stakeholders. Called Ability-Based Education (ABE) and modeled largely on an interdisciplinary pedagogy of transferable skills in the liberal arts and sciences successfully implemented by Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI, ABE represents hundreds of hours of contemplation and action at Tunxis around creative ways to make assessment something different.

Now Tunxis faculty members J.I. Abbot and Steve Ersinghaus—with a small team of other architects of ABE at Tunxis—are committed to helping educators at your college, university, or high school transform your assessment realities from dull, make-work doldrums into something empowering and lasting. We are now being sought by schools as distant as California to examine institutions’ existing curricular and lesson frameworks and help these organizations reinvigorate them to harness the innate and unique gifts of all teachers and learners.

Contact Steve Ersinghaus at sersinghaus@tunxis.edu or 860-255-3647 or J.I. Abbot at jabbot@tunxis.edu or 860-255-3623 to learn more about how HiA’s new TAPIT approach can revitalize your program and bring joy, spontaneity, and renewed rigor to your classrooms.