Dr. Bill Carpenter, English Department Chair at High Point University, and Andrew McCann, founder of Waypoint Outcomes, reprise their successful BbWorld presentation in a recorded webinar. You can watch and listen to "Triple Play: Embedding Writing Assessment in Blackboard."

Dr. Bill Carpenter, English Department Chair at High Point University, presents "Triple Play: Embedding Writing Assessment in Blackboard" at BbWorld 2012.  The presentation focuses on High Point University's use of Waypoint Outcomes to assess their General Education programs. Sal Khan was also there.

Waypoint 1.x (aka Waypoint Legacy) goes offline, forever, at 11:59pm Pacific Time (GMT -8) on June 30, 2012. You can read more here. Read More >>

Waypoint CEO and Founder Andrew McCann demos Waypoint2 to the Philadephia Ed-Tech Meetup crowd. Techincally Philly covers the event, which featured HigherNext.com and Apprennet.com, quoting Waypoint's goal to "make grading beautiful."

Lisa Farley and Waypoint Outcomes present "Leveraging the Free Waypoint2 Building Block to Advance ESL and Remedial Writing Instruction".  Drexel University's ESL Coordinator, Lisa Farley, provides unique insights about advanced writing, critical thinking and information literacy skills as well as other core goals of collegiate education. (Full webinar and PowerPoint slides available).

Waypoint Outcomes has been announced as a 2012 SIIA CODiE Award finalist.  For nearly three decades, SIIA has been recognizing innovators in the fields of software and technology.  The final vote begins on March 26.  Please click here to place your vote.

In 2010, Waypoint Outcomes partnered with Dr. Megan Oakleaf of Syracuse University to aid in the implemetnation of her RAILS project.  Dr. Oakleaf has written an article in the most recent edition of AAC&U's Peer Review Magazine highlihgting the first year of the intiative.  Waypoint will be giving away free copies of the magazine at select conferences.  To view Dr. Oakleaf's RAILS Project, please visit www.railsontrack.info.

Waypoint Outcomes announces it has joined the Blackboard Partnerships™ Program as a Blackboard Signature Partner™. Users of the Blackboard Learn™ platform can leverage Waypoint Outcomes’ assessment technology to create timely, individualized feedback and measure student progress in subjective areas. Read More>>

Waypoint Outcoomes CEO, Andrew McCann, presents with a panel of experts at the 5th Annual Signal Hill Education Conference in Boston, MA.  The focus of the presentation is various methods of Outcomes Based Learning and how those methods are affecting the ever shifting landscape of education in America. Listen Now >>

Drexel University and Waypoint Outcomes present "Big Data, Big Conversation: Drexel University's Journey to Meaningful Assessment".  A panel of experts discusses the university’s varied and deep approaches to learning outcomes assessment of 21st century skills in a webinar conducted by the Chronicle of Higher Education.  The webinar includes the results of multi-year assessment projects undertaken by Drexel University in Philadelphia.  (Full webinar and PowerPoint slides available)

Dr. Kaye Shelton, Associate Professor in Educational Leadership at Lamar University, and Waypoint Outcomes CEO, Andrew McCann debut "QC2 Framework for Assuring Quality Rubric-Based Assessment” at the 17th Annual Sloan-C Conference for Online Learning in Orlando, Florida. Read More >>

High Point University contracts with Waypoint to implement interactive rubrics for teaching and learning across introductory writing courses. Read More >>

Waypoint Outcomes is very pleased to announce the release of Waypoint 2.0, our next generation student engagement and assessment solution.  A brief overview of the system and its applications can be seen here.

4.29.11

Dr. Norman Sedgley, of Loyola University Maryland, and Christopher Finnin, Drexel University's Director of Business Studies, present "Multiple Pathways to Assurance of Learning Success" at the 2011 International Conference and Annual Meeting of AACSB. The session, which was standing room only, detailed the two institution's experiences with Waypoint Outcomes and their success creating assessment plans and "closing the loop." Waypoint Outcomes CEO introduced the presentation, and gave the audience a sneak peak at the next version of Waypoint, which launches this July.

A PDF of the presentation is available here:

• ICAM 2011: Multiple Pathways to Assurance of Learning

The full text of Dr. Scott Warnock's article, referenced in the presentation, can be found here:

• Methods and Results of an Accreditation-Driven Writing Assessment in a Business College
  Journal of Business and Technical Communication , Vol. 23, No. 1, 83-107 (2009)
  This peer reviewed article discusses a novel approach to assurance of learning in an AACSB-accredited business school. Drexel University uses Waypoint to manage program assessment that calls on three different audiences to assess student work: business school faculty, English department faculty, and industry experts. Triangulating expectations using this approach results in a more meaningful and valid approach to assessment, and keeps the curriculum focused on clearly communicated priorities.
  Abstract:
  This article describes a pilot effort for an accreditation-driven writing assessment in a business college, detailing the pilot's logistics and methods. Supported by rubric software and a philosophy of “real readers, real documents,” the assessment was piloted in summer 2006 with five evaluators who were English instructors and four who worked or taught in business environments. The nine evaluators were each given 10 reports that were drawn from a sample of 50 reports completed in a writing-intensive course. They created 88 individual assessments using a 10-category rubric. While the overarching purpose of the pilot was to determine the effectiveness of the methods used, the results may also be of interest to those involved with the assessment of writing.

Waypoint Outcomes Chief Executive Officer Andrew J. McCann will present Building Consensus Around Instructional and Academic Program Improvement with Dr. Rebecca Dark of Dallas Baptist University at the 11^th Annual Texas A&M Assessment Conference on .  The presentation will focus on Dallas Baptist’s ongoing campaign to improve faculty assessment of student writing proficiency. Read More >>

Waypoint Outcomes CEO and Founder presents "Five Free Tools to Accelerate Faculty-Led Assessment" at the 16th Annual Sloan-C Conference in Orlando, Florida. The session includes the first peak at Waypoint 2.0, our next generation student engagement and assessment solution. (This video requires audio, and the images are screen captures only - not full video of Waypoint 2.0).

11.9.10

Syracuse University has contracted with Waypoint Outcomes, a provider of Web-based academic assessment tools, to assist Dr. Megan Oakleaf, Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse, in her Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (RAILS) project.

After receiving a prestigious research grant from the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS), Dr. Megan Oakleaf recognized the necessity for a powerful yet flexible assessment tool to aid in the facilitation of the RAILS project.The objective of the project is to gauge undergraduate students’ ability to recognize when information is required as well as their ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively use the needed information. Read More >>

10.20.10

Saint Joseph University's Haub School of Business contracts with Waypoint Outcomes to support its Assurance of Learning initiatives.

8.15.10

Troy University and Westminster College contract with Waypoint to implement interactive rubrics for teaching and learning.

7.22.10

Waypoint Outcomes Sales Consultant, Robert McCarthy, presents on student attitudes towards high quality feedback at the Third Annual Sloan Emerging Technology Conference.

Waypoint Outcomes announces its Fellows Program and releases the results of a study detailing student's strong feelings concerning high quality feedback.

4.28.10

Seton Hall University's Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) graduate program is 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 rdeveloped 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 efficiaent. 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 feedbac and improvement, and quality assessment for meeting accreditation standards.

Waypoint's CEO and Director of Product Experience get their hands on an Apple iPad. Observational assessment will never be the same. Watch the YouTube video.

The University of North Carolina - Pembroke contracts with Waypoint Outcomes® to help improve writing instruction across the institution. As part of its SACS reaccreditation QEP process, UNCP is dramatically redesigning courses in multiple disciplines to include more writing. Waypoint "will allow the university to assess our progression, support classroom learning and ensure we achieve our milestones," said Dr. Elizabeth Normandy, Director of UNCP's Center for Teaching and Learning. "Waypoint is an intricate part of our 5-year plan," she continued. Read More >>

Waypoint Outcomes Chief Executive Officer Andrew J. McCann will speak at the Society for Applied Learning Technology Conference being held March 3-5 in Orlando, Fla. The New Learning Techniques Conference, Knowledge Management Track, includes best practices for successfully implementing learning management systems as well as factors in selecting technology. Read More >>

Waypoint Outcomes announces Michael Jones appointment to the newly created position of Director of Product Experience. “I am honored to lead Waypoint’s strategies and to be a part of the academic assessment industry in its infancy.” Jones said. “Waypoint leads the way in defining institutional standards and providing measurement tools to benefit universities and ensure student success.” “Michael’s deep experience building user-focused software will help fulfill Waypoint’s mission of uniting teaching and assessment,” Andrew McCann, chief executive officer of Waypoint Outcomes, said. Read More >>

Baker College Center for Graduate Studies contracts with Waypoint Outcomes to assist the graduate school in improving student communication and critical thinking in the classroom.

Dr. Jill Langen, dean of the master of business administration program at Baker College, said Waypoint helps the college better serve students. “This technology gives us the capability to provide individual feedback to support students in their learning process,” she said. Read More >>

Waypoint Outcomes Chief Executive Officer Andrew J. McCann speaks at the ninth annual Educause Mid–Atlantic Regional Conference.

McCann and co-speaker Craig Bach, associate vice provost for curriculum and assessment for Drexel University, will present a case history on how a Drexel faculty member successfully addressed issues of online student communication and assessment. They will demonstrate how rubric and self assessment technologies resulted in improved student learning data; better, more efficient and higher quality feedback to students; and development of course dashboards. Read More >>

South Carolina State University contracts with Waypoint Outcomes to assist the university in improving student communication and critical thinking in the classroom.

The College of Business and Applied Professional Sciences will implement Waypoint in an effort to achieve one of its top goals of improving student student's writing. Ten courses in the college will begin using Waypoint during the spring semester.

Dr. Barbara Adams, the university’s chair of Accounting, Agribusiness and Economics, said Waypoint will ensure academic proficiency and development. “By clearly defining the strength and weaknesses of students’ writing, this program will benefit them in all subject areas, not only business, and assist them in becoming overall better communicators,” she said. By providing a platform to improve student/teacher interaction, the university furthers its commitment to academic success, she added. Read More >>

St. Thomas Aquinas College contracts with Waypoint Outcomes to support National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education requirements and improve communication and critical thinking in the classroom. “Having a program that collects data decreases the possibility of human error in manually transferring data,” Dr. Suzanne Reynolds, the college’s associate professor of teacher education and NCATE coordinator, said. “We can dedicate more time to analyzing data to make curriculum enhancements rather than feeling the pressure of collecting it,” she said. Read More >>

The Bournemouth University presents a poster titled, "Enhancing student feedback on assessments using Waypoint" at Blackboard World 2009. Dr. Barbara Newland described Waypoint as, "truly enhancing student learning."

Bournemouth also presented "SUE @ BU - Evaluating every course using Blackboard", detailing its use of Waypoint to deliver surveys into hundreds of courses.

Kaye Shelton, from Dallas Baptist University, presented the session, "Assessing and Aggregating Learning Outcomes: Easier Than Herding Cats?" Dean Shelton discussed her program's systematic data gathering and analysis processes, but noted that the "best part to using Waypoint has been the faculty response." In particular, DBU faculty like being able to quickly create feedback and appreciate how Waypoint helps mitigate grade inflation.