Faculty and administrators in Seton Hall's College of Education, working with the University's Teaching, Learning & Technology Center, had leveraged their Course Management System of choice and built a customized platform to manage student portfolios. But they needed an assessment solution. According to Paul Fisher, the Directer of the TLTC, "Rubrics are powerful tools that allow students to see just how they will be graded and allow a faculty member to remain consistent when grading the same assignment dozens of times. 

With many of the faculty already familiar with rubrics, Waypoint Outcomes was a natural next step. And because Waypoint rubrics are easily shared across multiple faculty, and data is naturally aggregated, assessment coordinators like Dr. Grace May have unprecedented access to evidence of student achievement.

Read more in a peer reviewed paper authored by  Seton Hall University faculty: Innovation in e-Assessment: Exploring a Multidimensional Tool.

While Waypoint has been utilized in a variety of ways by Seton Hall since 2006, easy access to data collected and a change in the culture of assessment can only be measured over several academic years. In 2009 Seton Hall University's Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) graduate program was granted full national recognition by the National Council for Teacher Accreditation (NCATE). NCATE request permission to publish the full report, as an exemplar of a successful accreditation cycle. The full report is available here. Seton Hall University describes its use of Waypoint:

Candidate data for all IDAT assessments is obtained using Waypoint software, making the grading of projects more manageable and linking accreditation standards to candidate learning outcomes a reality. Additionally, faculty have come together to share ideas for developing multiple aspects of rubrics. Faculty developed multi-purpose Waypoint rubrics that allow for grading candidate performance on multiple levels. The results are rich, authentic data that foster candidate learning. The education faculty link course projects to INTASC standards, state standards, and other professional affiliations, especially important for reporting candidate-learning outcomes.

The use of Waypoint through Blackboard has allowed the IDAT program to synchronize their course roster to the rubrics, making the process of reporting more efficient. There is tremendous benefit in sharing assignments and rubrics with other faculty and candidates. Many faculty members are encouraged to revist and expand upon their rubrics as well as to organize candidate/peer evaluations and even teams of evaluators that share assignments and rubrics. We have just begun to grasp the full impact of Waypoint on our teaching and learning environment; however, the evidence with regard to reporting is clear. Faculty now have the needed tools to work toward improving the quality of assessment. There is no doubt that we will continue to utilize Waypoint as a means of reflection for curriculum refinement, candidate feedback and improvement, and quality assessment for meeting accreditation standards.