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eLumen Achievement™

A Summary of the Software

eLumen Achievement™ is an information system for managing a college's attention to student achievements, learning outcomes and education results. It is specifically designed to facilitate authentic assessment processes that are faculty-driven, student learning-centered, standards-based, and (now, with eLumen) system-supported.

The system, a versatile tool for assessment leaders, can:

• Coordinate the planning and communication of all criterion-based direct measures through the college, wherever and whenever these occur;
• Provide participating instructors the means to easily and electronically score student achievement using standards/criteria/ rubrics; and
• Reduce the subsequent work of aggregating and reporting results to zero, because the system can produce, on request, aggregated information on actual student achievement that is generated out of regular coursework. Reports can be organized by area of achievement (e.g., all the math, writing or critical thinking) or by department or program.

How it works

Authentic assessment becomes easy and effective when supported by eLumen Achievement.

1. Defining shared standards
   eLumen provides a versatile template that facilitates consensus when faculty work together to define expected student achievements and rubrics.

2. Applying these standards to evaluation of student work
   eLumen supports several processes by which faculty can choose to connect these shared standards to specific courses, course sections and planned assessments. Then it provides an electronic scorecard for each planned assessment that automatically incorporates the chosen expected achievements and rubrics. It also generates per-section reports for instructors, who can review results either by-student or aggregated for the entire section.

3. Gathering data on results
   eLumen does all of the work for this step, generating (upon request) reports that aggregate achievement- and rubric-based data on actual student achievement per academic term. This can be done for a chosen area of achievement or for all participating courses in a chosen program.

4. Recommending changes
   Because aggregated results are drawn directly from courses and available in real time, faculty can review relevant data and identify changes for the next academic term that have strong potential for showing improved student achievement.