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Normalize Embedding Equity in the Curriculum for Assessors
Normalize Embedding Equity in the Curriculum for Assessors
Dr. Natasha Jankowski
Dr. Natasha Jankowski believes that there are multiple roles that assessment professionals have in their work: they serve as translators who can interpret a given program’s work into the language that will be understood by administrators and accreditors. Fostering conversations about equitable data use, inviting diverse yet relevant stakeholders to the table, applying critical reasoning to effectively tell the stories that need to be brought to light are all further examples of this multi-faceted work. In addition to the translator and community-building roles, other roles that Dr. Jankowski and Dr. Slotnick identified that remain crucial are that of narrator or storyteller of institutions or colleges in impactful ways, as navigator of the politics of institutions who are advocates and powerful voices at the table, able to articulate relevant data in order to facilitate conversations that may not match what accreditors or administrators expect, but bring to light what needs to be said.
Dr. Natasha Jankowski believes that there are multiple roles that assessment professionals have in their work: they serve as translators who can interpret a given program’s work into the language that will be understood by administrators and accreditors. Fostering conversations about equitable data use, inviting diverse yet relevant stakeholders to the table, applying critical reasoning to effectively tell the stories that need to be brought to light are all further examples of this multi-faceted work. In addition to the translator and community-building roles, other roles that Dr. Jankowski and Dr. Slotnick identified that remain crucial are that of narrator or storyteller of institutions or colleges in impactful ways, as navigator of the politics of institutions who are advocates and powerful voices at the table, able to articulate relevant data in order to facilitate conversations that may not match what accreditors or administrators expect, but bring to light what needs to be said.
Frequently working in offices of one, she believes that it is important to build a community of people who encourage each other to remain subversive in their institutional or structural contexts. She encourages us all to continue to push back against any internal or external systems or structures that may be seeking to limit us, or the stories we need to tell, as “we made structures. These are systems that people made, which means that they are systems that we can change.”
Frequently working in offices of one, she believes that it is important to build a community of people who encourage each other to remain subversive in their institutional or structural contexts. She encourages us all to continue to push back against any internal or external systems or structures that may be seeking to limit us, or the stories we need to tell, as “we made structures. These are systems that people made, which means that they are systems that we can change.”
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Jankowski, N. A., & Slotnick, R. C. (2015). The Five Essential Roles of Assessment Practitioners. Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness, 5(1), 78-100. Retrieved from https://vc.bridgew.edu/fac_articles/12/
Jankowski, N. A., & Slotnick, R. C. (2015). The Five Essential Roles of Assessment Practitioners. Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness, 5(1), 78-100. Retrieved from https://vc.bridgew.edu/fac_articles/12/
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