The Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Forum (LTAF) is an annual event sponsored by the Office of the Provost, in collaboration with the University Assessment/Accreditation Council.
This university-wide event is designed to:
- provide faculty, doctoral students, postdocs, administrators, and staff the opportunity to showcase their assessment initiatives at the course, department/program, school, and/or university levels;
- share and highlight teaching, learning and assessment innovations, strategies, practices, and outcomes;
- demonstrate the University’s assessment framework in practice; and
- promote dialogue about assessment, its purpose, and its value for improving learning and teaching.
2017 Forum
On October 19, 2017, Northwestern held its fifth annual Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Forum “Sharing Insights into Student Learning.” This is a collaboration of the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching, the Office of the Provost, and the University’s Assessment/Accreditation Council. Approximately 140 faculty, graduate students, post-docs, administrators, and staff from nearly every school and college convened at Norris University Center to participate in eight faculty-led roundtables around a range of key issues in learning and teaching. Topics included curriculum mapping, assessing critical thinking and creative work, using formative assessments to gauge student learning, assessing graduate work, and exploring cultural relevance and immersion. (Read more).
In his opening remarks, Provost Jonathan Holloway shared some key moments in his own development as an educator, discussing how he learned to reflect on his teaching over time(click to view provost's remarks/netID required).
Prior Year Forums
You may access, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 presentations here (netID required).
