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Overview
An Interactive Faculty Work Session Co-Sponsored by Assessment and Curriculum Support Center and Graduate Division.
To kick off the New Year, we are inviting you to join us in our third E ALA (Engaging in Advanced Learning Assessments) event in our series, Unpacking Our Assessment Kuleana, an in-person interactive event. The event will be held on Friday, January 30, 2026 from 10:00am – 12:00pm at Hamilton Library Basement Classroom. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
How do we move beyond “checking boxes” to create an assessment that truly serves our students and communities? This interactive workshop invites graduate programs (and all assessment friends) to embrace the kuleana (responsibility) of assessment. Through hands-on, working groups, you will consider your program responsibilities to students, communities, and knowledge itself as you develop assessment approaches that are both rigorous and culturally grounded. Faculty, administrators, and assessment coordinators from all programs are encouraged to attend and contribute their perspectives on advanced student learner outcomes tied to a culturally responsive assessment rubric.
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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.
Personalized “Recipe” for Your Program Assessment: Participants will reflect on each stage of program assessment and leave with reflections, notes, and guiding strategies for next steps and strengthening of their program’s assessment practices and goals.
Renewed Sense of Purpose and Connection: Through shared reflection and cultural metaphor, participants will strengthen their appreciation for assessment as a meaningful, collaborative practice that nourishes learning and growth.
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 |
|---|---|
| February 27, 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.
Past Events
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| October 30, 2026 – “Assessment is NOT Scary” | Revive common practices that support faculty in advancing student achievement. |
| November 21, 2025 – “Assessment Is Like Making Laulau“ | Explore the assessment process through the metaphor of laulau making. |