Online Workshops

Dig into the AAQEP standards* in this interactive workshop! Chart a course for success in your AAQEP accreditation work, whether that means preparing an Accreditation Proposal, Initial Accreditation Report, or Quality Assurance Report.

After a brief overview of AAQEP’s expectations framework, process, and evidence requirements, we’ll begin exploring the types of evidence needed to document the performance of candidates and program completers for Standards 1 and 2. You and your colleagues (teams encouraged!) will consider the data you currently have available, discuss strategies for gathering new information from your graduates and their employers, and start winnowing the options down to a manageable set of measures.

Moving on to Standards 3 and 4, we’ll look at practical strategies for interrogating and documenting specific program practices that promote candidate success, support completer career entry and growth, incorporate stakeholder perspectives, and ensure program capacity for quality.

Leave with an action plan for selecting and preparing your evidence set for accreditation.

* This workshop is grounded in the 2025 expectations framework. If you are using the 2018 framework, the strategies and tools provided in this workshop are still fully applicable.

Empirical evidence is the best guide we have in the quest to strengthen and improve programs. But not all measures are of equal quality, and sometimes they yield discrepant outcomes that undermine our efforts to promote equity. To effectively support quality assurance and program improvement, evidence must be credible, meaningful, and fair. How can you ensure that measures produce equitable, accurate, and useful data?

In this interactive workshop, you will work in teams—from your own institution and/or other programs—to understand the issues of equity, validity, and reliability as they relate to quantitative measures and to explore ways of ensuring the fairness and trustworthiness of qualitative evidence sources.

You will strategize ways to develop and validate assessment measures, including through work with school-based partners who host candidates and hire completers to simultaneously strengthen your quality assurance system and your partnerships. Leave with a better understanding of the value of developing shared professional judgment with your P-12 colleagues and partners to support data quality and equity.

This workshop explores concepts that are useful to AAQEP members and anyone working with assessment in educator preparation. No measurement background needed—the conversation about fairness and data quality is for everyone!