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2024 Assessment Award Winners

• Staff
• 02/07/2025

The 2024 Assessment Awards recognize those that provide exemplars of best practice, as well as demonstrate consistency in valuing, documenting, and continuing their own professional development in continuous teaching and student learning improvement.  

 

Nominees are ranked and awarded across three categories, with awards presented for both curricular and co-curricular assessment, for a total of six awards:

• Emerging Assessment Star
• Assessment Champion
• Excellence in Assessment

 

Emerging Assessment Star

This award recognizes an individual in curricular or co-curricular assessment that demonstrates professional engagement and growth in improving teaching and learning through assessment.  The award recognizes efforts to improve courses, teaching, and learning through assessment for student learning as supported by the RVC Guidelines for Assessment for Student Learning.  Furthermore, this award recognizes those that improve documentation of assessment, participate in assessment professional development events to enhance their understanding and practice of assessment, and uses the sharing of continuous improvement of learning stories (SCILS) to improve teaching and learning in their own courses or discipline/program. 

The 2024 recipient of the Emerging Curricular Assessment Star award is Dr. Maureen Lowry-Fritz.

The 2024 recipient of the Emerging Co-curricular Assessment Star award is Amanda Zika.

 

Assessment Champion

This award recognizes an individual in curricular or co-curricular assessment that demonstrates effective leadership for improving teaching and learning through assessment.  The award recognizes an individual that has demonstrated the RVC Guidelines for Assessment for Student Learning for multiple years in their leadership.  The award recognizes comprehensive documentation that illustrates assessment efforts from measures to actions and changes in teaching and learning to foster student success.  Furthermore, this award recognizes those that regularly participate in the development of or lead, as well as attend, assessment events; motivates and engages others in assessment efforts; and advances the sharing of continuous improvement of learning stories (SCILS) by sharing their own and encouraging others to do so.

I like to think of these individuals as assessment cheerleaders in the most endearing way. They are enthusiastic about their participation and encourage others to get involved.

The 2024 recipient of the Assessment Curricular Champion award is Chad Roth.

The 2024 recipient of the Assessment Co-curricular Champion award is Tek Curry.

 

Excellence in Assessment

This award recognizes a department or individual in curricular or co-curricular assessment that provides the exemplar of an effective, comprehensive assessment practitioner and embodiment of the RVC Guidelines for Assessment for Student Learning.  The award recognizes multi-year consistency in documentation that illustrates assessment efforts from measures to actions and changes in teaching and learning to foster student success.  Furthermore, this award recognizes those that regularly participate in assessment events, motivates and engages others in assessment efforts, and advances the sharing of continuous improvement of learning stories (SCILS).  

Curricular – Developmental Math Department (with special recognition for Professor Carl Trank and Dr. Jeff Trip)

Note:  No Excellence in Co-curricular Assessment Award is being given this year.