Leading Improvements in Higher Education with Stephen Hundley
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Leading Improvements in Higher Education with Stephen Hundley
s06e05: A Conversation with Three Principals Involved in Developing ACCELERATE, an Updated Framework for Higher Education Assessment
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This episode describes an updated higher education assessment framework known by the acronym ACCELERATE, and we will ‘unpack’ each letter of this acronym during this podcast episode. Our guests are Divya Bheda, Daniel Kaczmarek, and Constance Tucker, each of whom is an assessment professional in their respective institutional context. Importantly, these three guests are also representing the larger group involved in developing the ACCELERATE framework.
Link to an article describing the ACCELERATE framework:
https://aalhe.scholasticahq.com/article/145101-accelerate-assessment-principles-for-best-practice
This season of Leading Improvements in Higher Education is sponsored by the Center for Assessment and Research Studies at James Madison University; learn more at jmu.edu/assessment.
Episode recorded: December 2025. Host: Stephen Hundley. Producers: Chad Beckner and Angela Bergman. Original music: Caleb Keith. This award-winning podcast is a service of the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis; learn more go.iu.edu/assessmentinstitute.