New Name, New Format, Expanded Content!

Formerly "Best Assessment Processes Symposium," the 2010 ABET Symposium has been redesigned to meet the multiple needs of many ABET constituents. This event will begin on Thursday, April 15, with three-hour Pre-Symposium Workshops, followed by two days of more than 70 concurrent sessions. Attendees will have an opportunity to take advantage of a diversity of sessions and meet with ABET commission leaders in a roundtable format to learn about the latest in accreditation practice.

• See a detailed schedule for the event here!
• What's New? What's Continuing?
• Proposal Topics
• Registration Information
• Hotel Information - Make reservations by March 19!

What's New?

• Three-hour Pre-Symposium Workshops on the afternoon of Thursday, April 15
• A schedule of more than 70 peer-reviewed sessions on assessment and accreditation processes, many led by popular past presenter
• Four educational tracks: Assessing your program, preparing the self-study, planning for the visit, ABET program evaluator updates
• Symposium Resource Room for reviewing sample self-studies
• The latest developments in accreditation practice
• Affordable new hotel! ($69 per night suites at a non-casino resort hotel in Las Vegas)
  • Hotel information - Reserve by March 19 to lock in on ABET's special rate!

What's Continuing?

• Hear from popular past presenters
• Meet with accreditation commission leaders
• Interact with colleagues
• Find out how others are using technology to enhance their assessment and accreditation experience

See registration information here!

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Proposals were solicited for three different tracks:

1. Program Assessment Processes
2. Preparing the Self-Study
3. Preparing for the Site Visit

(A fourth track, "Program Evaluator Updates," will be offered,
but there was no solicitation for these sessions.)

Proposals for presentations on the following topics were submitted for each track:

1. Program Assessment Processes
• Direct measures
• Assessment tools
• Streamlining the assessment process
• Qualitative and quantitative methods
• Faculty engagement in accreditation processes
• Use of industry advisory boards in the accreditation process
• Portfolio development
• Use of technology in assessment
• Collaborations between technical programs and assessment/evaluation professionals
  
  
2. Preparing the Self-Study
• Organizing for the self-study
• Leading the self-study process
• Maximizing resources—multiple programs in the college
• Telling your story: the use of tables and figures
• Self-Study "musts" and "cans"
• Preparing the institutional report
• Use of technology
• Writing the interim report
  
  
3. Preparing for the evaluation visit
• Organizing evidence
• Involving constituents
• Planning the schedule
• Timelines and due process
• Communication: before, during and after
• Preparing for an interim visit
  

See detailed schedule
for the event here!

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• Pre-Symposium Workshops - $50
• ABET Symposium Registration - $490 through Monday, March 15, and $540 thereafter
• Reduced rates available for campus teams and ABET program evaluators and team chairs! (Only one discount per person)
• Click here to learn more!

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