Enacted Assessment of Disability Support: A “Lived” Method for Assessing Student Life
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split-screen analysis, post secondary education, mobility impairment
Abstract
How does an institution assess the experiences of only one one-thousandth of its overall population? And how does it assess something as non-discrete as “student experience”? In the on-going efforts to assess the quality of life for mobility-impaired students on a mid-sized residential campus, the authors built upon focus group research that identified areas of both success and shared concern by developing a novel form of video-based assessment utilizing split-screen analysis. This analysis was neither especially time-consuming, nor especially expensive, nor particularly difficult to conduct, yet produced immediate, valuable, and useful data.
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E. Duff Wrobbel, Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
E. Duff Wrobbel is an associate professor of speech communication at SIUE who has been active in assessment scholarship for a number of years.Sarah Vanslette, Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Sarah Vanslette, PhD is an assistant professor of speech communication at SIUE with a growing interest in both assessment and disability support.
Tiffany Eickhoff, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Tiffany Eickhoff is a senior in the speech communication major at SIUE. As a person with a disability, she has been both a research subject and a co-author for this project.