Quality assessment: Instrumenting the independent process variables during teaching and learning

This report is based heavily on the 1993 Strategic Plan and assessment implementation guidelines of the Synthesis Coalition. Every funded project leader in the Coalition was invited to submit a brief statement-of-work indicating the assessment method of choice and the manner in which the method will be applied: e.g., the curriculum, the students to be observed, when and where in the evolution of a student´s curriculum experience they will be observed; what are the expected outcomes of the assessment; how will outcomes be fed back into the curriculum; why is that specific methodology right for this project, etc. Supplemental assessment awards will be made on a merit basis. Merit is determined by a peer review process, akin to that used for external project implementation proposal review