2nd Annual Conference
Spring 2012
Cary, North Carolina

LiveText is a leading provider of learning assessment and accreditation management web tools, expert consulting services, and broad support services for colleges and universities facing the challenges of assessing student learning, evaluating programs, and planning for accreditation. LiveText's standards-based learning assessment and Accreditation Management System provides the most advanced, flexible, and intuitive web-based tools for developing, assessing, and measuring student learning and program evaluation.

LiveText services are founded on a collaborative user community that connects students, faculty, and administrators, supports the analysis of long range standards-based learning, and facilitates continuous student, curriculum, and program assessment.

eLumen's web-based software directly supports both teaching/learning endeavors and student-support activities, enabling the academic institution as a whole to create and maintain a focus on the personal, professional, and intellectual development of individual students or cohorts of students.

eLumen generates outcomes assessment data on actual student learning outcomes directly out of regular academic and student-support processes and provides real-time access to the data so the institution can respond to this evidence of student achievement / non-achievement across time and across the institution. This makes eLumen qualitatively different from systems that are limited to tracking the reporting of assessment activities.

TaskStream empowers excellence and helps meet performance challenges through solutions that enhance community, collaboration and student-centered learning.

Our Accountability Management System (AMS) provides an efficient, effective way to document, analyze, and manage performance across an entire campus. Our Learning Achievement Tools (LAT) provide innovative web-based systems for portfolio-based learning and assessment, instructional design, and other tools that facilitate real-time instruction.

Developed by faculty and administrators to address assessment within the context of accreditation, WEAVEonline is both a software application and a community of expertise. Our application provides a tool that focuses on institution and program-level processes for quality assurance and enhancement. It allows colleges, community colleges, and universities to integrate assessment and planning in order to achieve multiple goals.

In addition, we are a family of experienced assessment and planning professionals dedicated to the sharing of best practices through a consultative peer learning community.

Scantron's K-12 district-wide and classroom assessment solutions help educators meet NCLB requirements and raise the level of student achievement.

A research-based, content-rich computer adaptive test known as Performance Series and a content-neutral, highly flexible assessment product known as Achievement Series are combined to develop and administer online and paper-based tests and receive immediate results. The Prosper assessment system helps educators implement true formative assessment strategies in their classrooms and schools, in groups or the entire class. The Engage Response System offers students a fun and interactive way to participate in classroom instruction.

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the top professional news source for college and university administrators and faculty members. In print and online at Chronicle.com, The Chronicle covers the latest news and trends, and also publishes Chronicle Careers, the largest job marketplace in higher education. To learn more, or subscribe online, visit Chronicle.com.

The IDEA Center is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve colleges and universities committed to improving learning, teaching, and leadership performance. The Center supports the evaluation and development of both programs and people.

To stay on the cutting edge, The IDEA Center's experts constantly evaluate and reevaluate our services. Extensive data collection, research, and feedback from our clients have resulted in continuous enhancement of our services. The emphasis of The IDEA Center always remains on improving teaching, learning, and the higher education process.

Stylus publishes books and journals that focus on higher education. Our program covers such areas as teaching and learning, assessment, online learning, racial diversity on campus, women's issues, student affairs, and leadership and administration in higher education. For more information, write to StylusInfo@Styluspub.com or visit www.Styluspub.com (see Higher Education in Browse Catalogs section).

PACAT is no stranger to the complexities of balancing external accountability with internal autonomy. For over 2 decades, we have specialized in creating the ACATs, nationally standardized instruments that recognize the uniqueness of individual academic departments. Departments select components that match their teaching and learning goals rather than using a test with one-size-fits-all content.

The ACAT can be administered using a pencil-and-paper format or by computer. The two methods are fully compatible and the data are provided in a consolidated report. The ACAT is available for 12 disciplines and is in use on over 500 two- and four-year campuses.

Madison Assessment LLC provides high quality/low cost computer-based assessment tests. Our partner, James Madison University's Center for Assessment and Research Studies (CARS) has been a recognized industry leader in the development and analysis of assessment testing for more than two decades.

Madison Assessment has an exclusive license to distribute and administer the testing instruments developed by CARS. Our clients are guaranteed to receive the same high levels of quality for which CARS is world-renown. We currently offer three assessment tests developed by CARS:

• Information Literacy Test (ILT)
• Scientific Reasoning Test (SR)
• Quantitative Reasoning Test (QR)