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Overview
An Interactive Faculty Work Session Co-Sponsored by Assessment and Curriculum Support Center and Graduate Division.
To begin our E ALA (Engaging in Advanced Learning Assessments) series this year, we invite you to join us for Assessment is NOT Scary, an in-person interactive event (costume not necessary). The event will be held on October 30, 2025 from 10:30AM – 12:30PM at QLC 412.
What do Zombies and Assessment have in common? In an interactive session, we will explore the unlikely combination of Zombies and Assessment as we unpack the elements of ethical research that we call Pono Research. We will focus on aspects of Pono Research (also known as Kūlana Noiʻi and Noiʻi Makawalu), which includes elements such as Reciprocal Community Engagement.
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Are our programs and students already engaging in this practice? What does it look like? What can it look like? And how do we assess it? Consider spending two hours with us feeding Zombies and making Assessment Potions to revive common practices that can support faculty in advancing student achievement in Pono Research.
Who can participate…
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Graduate Faculty and Program Assessment Coordinators who are interested in improving their course learning assessments and who desire to enhance their ongoing program learning assessments. In particular, we invite all faculty who train students in conducting responsible, ethical, and reciprocal research to join this session.
What participants will walk away with…
Build Community: Opportunity to connect with other graduate faculty and program assessment coordinators from various disciplines.
Strengthen Pono Research: Explore Pono research principles (respectful and reciprocal research), share applications from program and student work, and support innovative and engaging approaches for students’ success.
Improve Assessment Strategies: Gain new insight into creative assessment techniques and strategies for assessing program research and student projects that align with UH Mānoa Advanced Degree Institutional Learning Outcomes #6 Conduct research or projects as a responsible and ethical professional, including consideration of and respect for other cultural perspectives; and #7 Interact professionally with others.
More about E ALA Event Series
The Assessment and Curriculum Support Center, in conjunction with the UHM Graduate Division, introduces the E ALA (Engaging in Advanced Learning Assessments) series. We have planned four interactive sessions for this academic year to support your graduate program in enhancing collaborative, meaningful, useful, feasible, culturally-responsive, and equitable assessment.
Together, we will focus on advancing the assessment of UH Mānoa Advanced Degree Institutional Learning Outcomes #6, conduct research or projects as a responsible and ethical professional, including consideration of and respect for other cultural perspectives, and #7, interact professionally with others.
Upcoming Events
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| November 20, 2025 – “Assessment Is Like Making Laulau” | Explore the assessment process through the metaphor of laulau making. |
| January 29, 2026 – “Unpacking Our Assessment Kuleana” | Create an assessment tool that is culturally-responsive and equity-minded. |
| February 26, 2026 – “Loving Assessment” | Make assessment your love language. |
Attendance for the series can be for a single event, all four, or a combination as your schedule allows.