Academic Assessment Highlights – Assessment During COVID

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic which impacted Spring 2020 courses, NOVA instructional programs continue to show improvement in assessing student learning. Most programs were able to adapt existing assessments for an online environment in Spring 2020, and other programs with primarily hands-on assessments made innovative changes to these assessments in order to evaluate students’ skills remotely.

For example, Driver Education Instructor, C.S.C., assessed students’ driving skills by having students complete driving tasks with a partner videotaping them performing these tasks. Students asked people that they were quarantining with (e.g., family members) to sit in the car and videotape them performing their driving tasks, and faculty evaluated students’ driving skills via the videos. For more examples of 2019-2020 instructional program assessments, please see the 2019-20 Annual Planning and Evaluation Report for Instructional Programs.

Submitted by:
Nicole Martello, nmartello@nvcc.edu