Interactive Feedback
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Feedback as a form of instruction
Feedback as an element of dialogue, critical
to deep learning
Feedback as an element of retention
Waypoint Basics: Creating
Exceptional Feedback This
detailed walk through is
designed for instructors who
assess and respond to
subjective, authentic student
work.
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Measurement of learning objectives
Measurement of course objectives
Measurement of program objectives
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Consistency occurs when all faculty use the
same grading rubric
 Consistent expectations
 Consistent grading
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Online environment where technology
abounds
Improve ease of providing
◦ feedback,
◦ Measurement, and
◦ consistency
Creating Exceptional Feedback.
Faster This six minute overview
details Waypoint from an instructor's
point of view.
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Waypoint originated with two challenges shared by all educators:
creating the personalized, timely feedback that learners need, and
measuring student progress in subjective (and important) areas like
written communication, critical thinking, presentation skills, and
information literacy.
We innovated around the basic idea of the rubric, the criteria-based
assessment tool used by educators around the world in primary,
secondary, tertiary, and post-tertiary education, and built a powerful
platform that can be easily integrated with leading Learning
Management Systems. Over one million evaluations of student work
later, Waypoint has helped thousands of educators create better
feedback more efficiently, and helped numerous institutions develop the
data they need to understand their learners acquisition of the 21st
Century skills that matter most.
Waypoint Outcomes creates innovative tools to help deepen the dialog
amongst educators, learners, and stakeholders. Our assessment
software is used by diverse K12 and Higher Education institutions
around the world.
http://www.waypointoutcomes.com/about-us
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Lots and lots of little blue buttons
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4.25.08
Texas A&M University launches Waypoint institution-wide
via its Writing Across the Curriculum program. Read the
Texas A&M Writing Center newsletter here (pdf, 9mb).
6.05.07
Subjective Metrics releases a module for the opensource Moodle Course Management System.
8.26.06
Subjective Metrics announces new clients including The Wharton School of
Business, University of Pennsylvania, the Santa Clara County Office of
Education, The Victoria College, The Sellinger School of Business at Loyola
College in Maryland, and Seton Hall University.
6.16.06
Subjective Metrics releases a beta version of a Building
Block for the Blackboard Learning Management System™
that tightly integrates Waypoint with Blackboard.
8.15.05
The Villanova University School of Law selects
Waypoint for use in its legal writing program.
9.15.04
Drexel University announces site license agreement (2004-2005
academic year) in its Drexelink publication.
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4.9.09 Kaye Shelton, Dean of Online Education at Dallas Baptist
University, presents DBU's implementation of Waypoint in
"Measuring and Aggregating Learner Outcomes: Making
Technology Do the Work!" at the Texas Distance Learning
Association Conference, Corpus Christi TX
4.7.09 Dr. Barbara Newland, of Bournemouth University,
presents "Enhancing Student Feedback on Assessments Using
Waypoint" at Blackboard World Europe , Barcelona Spain.
4.7.09 Subjective Metrics welcomes MidAmerica Nazarene
University as a new client.
3.13.09 Dr. Scott Warnock, Subjective Metrics' co-founder,
presents " Assessments large and small with a Web-based rubric
and data-collection tool.” Conference on College Composition
and Communication Computer Connection
2.10.09 Waypoint Outcomes welcomes new clients, including
Edison State College, Baldwin-Wallace College, Lebanon High
School, and Cankdeska-Cikana Community College.
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1.01.09 The Drexel University College of Business features their use of Waypoint
in a paper recently published in The Journal of Business and Technical
Communication (abstract only).
11.15.08 Waypoint Outcomes welcomes new clients, including Fanny Lou Hamer
High School, Dallas-Baptist University, Mililani High School, Saint Mary's College of
California, and San Jose State University.
9.01.08 Waypoint Outcomes releases a customized solution for California's PACT
consortia (Performance Assessment for California Teachers)
7.25.08 Waypoint Outcomes welcomes Wingate University as a new client.
4.25.08 Texas A&M University launches Waypoint institution-wide via its Writing
Across the Curriculum program. Read the Texas A&M Writing Center newsletter
here (pdf, 9mb).
3.20.08 Waypoint Outcomes is profiled in two presentations at the Drexel
University e-Learning 2.0 Conference. Jason Slipp, an Instruction Technology
Consultant from Lehigh University, presented Lehigh's implementation of
Waypoint across four colleges (every college at Lehigh). Dr. Valarie Arms, from
Drexel University, discussed using Waypoint for peer review to help structure
student work in a hybrid learning environment. You can download the
presentations:
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2.8.08 Subjective Metrics welcomes new clients to Waypoint Outcomes including
the University of Virginia, Wilkes University, and Lafayette College.
2.6.08 Waypoint Outcomes is profiled in the University of Pennsylvania's student
newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian. The article is called "Fighting for Feedback,"
and details the student experience receiving feedback from faculty along with the
Wharton School's successful two-year implementation of Waypoint.
1.16.08
Subjective Metrics announces support for the Windows Mobile PDA platform. Read
the press release here.
1.3.08 Subjective Metrics welcomes new clients to Waypoint Outcomes, including
Bloomsburg University and Lehigh University.
12.5.07 Subjective Metrics welcomes new clients to Waypoint Outcomes,
including Somerset Community College in Kentucky, Manhattan College, and the
Mays School of Business at Texas A&M University.
11.19.07 Drexel University's English Alive program is featured in Inside Higher Ed
after a presentation at the 2007 NCTE conference in New York. Read the article
here. English Alive, and co-director Dr. Valarie Arms, were the subject of the
December 1st edition of the College Connection radio show. Drexel's English Alive
program was the first client for Waypoint Outcomes, and the program is codirected by Dr. Scott Warnock, VP Research and co-founder of Subjective Metrics,
the developers of Waypoint.
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11.8.07 Seton Hall University faculty present "Assessment with a
Difference: Waypoint Empowers Students, Faculty and Administrators" at
the 13th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning in
Orlando, Florida.
◦ Conference Abstract:
"This presentation will illustrate the various ways Waypoint is
used for: collecting data; evaluating student performance; and analyzing data for
multiple purposes. These include: individual assessments; course assessments;
program assessments; alignment to standards; accreditation evaluations. Suggestions
for modifying and implementing Waypoint, a cost-effective tool for assessment will
be presented."
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11.2.07 Subjective Metrics welcomes new clients to Waypoint Outcomes,
including the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Blended Schools.net, the
Association of Christian Public Schools in South-West Fryslân (The
Netherlands), and Los Angeles Mission College.
08.22.07 Subjective Metrics announces interoperability with Blackboard
Vista 4.0. Read more.
08.20.07 Subjective Metrics welcomes its latest client, Gallaudet
University in Washington DC.
08.16.07 Subjective Metrics welcomes its latest client, Edinburg
Consolidated Independent School District, Edinburg TX.
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08.06.07 Subjective Metrics welcomes its latest client,
Green Dot Public Schools, Los Angeles CA
08.01.07 Subjective Metrics President and Founder,
Andrew J. McCann, is a featured speaker at the Lehigh
Valley Technology in the Classroom Symposium. McCann
presented to over 80 faculty and administrators from the
six colleges and universities of the Lehigh Valley
Association of Independent Schools.
06.25.07 Subjective Metrics welcomes its latest client, the
William Paterson University of New Jersey.
06.05.07 Subjective Metrics releases a module for the
open-source Moodle Course Management System.
04.21.07 Subjective Metrics welcomes its latest client,
Valley City State University.
03.01.07 In collaboration with Grant Wiggins, Subjective
Metrics launches iPowerFeedback.
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02.14.07 Subjective Metrics releases a beta version of its groundbreaking
WpOutcomes analysis software to selected clients.
11.15.06 Subjective Metrics officially releases a Building Block for the Blackboard
Learning Management System™. Subjective Metrics founder and president
Andrew J. McCann is a featured speaker at Authentic Education's Making Grades
Meaningful: A Fresh Look at Grading and Reporting Conference.
09.12.06 Subjective Metrics integrates Waypoint with the Wharton School of
Business' proprietary webCafé e-learning platform. Subjective Metrics
announces new clients including the Drexel University College of Engineering and
Morgan State University.
08.22.06 Subjective Metrics announces new clients including The Wharton School
of Business, University of Pennsylvania, the Santa Clara County Office of Education,
The Victoria College, The Sellinger School of Business at Loyola College in
Maryland, and Seton Hall University.
07.22.06 Waypoint is featured in University Business magazine, the magazine for
college and university administrators. Read the article here.
06.16.06 Subjective Metrics releases a beta version of a Building Block for the
Blackboard Learning Management System™ that tightly integrates Waypoint with
Blackboard.
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05.22.06 Subjective Metrics partners with 4teacher.org to integrate the
award winning and highly popular web-based tool RubiStar with
Waypoint. Subjective Metrics is featured in a Philadelphia Business
Journal article entitled, "Subjective Metrics Scores High in How Student
Work is Graded."
03.22.06 Waypoint is selected by the Drexel University LeBow College of
Business as a key tool in its AACSB accreditation initiatives to document
student outcomes and continually improve instruction.
◦ Andrew McCann, Dr. Scott Warnock, and Estelita Young from WebCT present
"Teaching and Enforcing Proper Documentation: Turnitin.com and WebCT" at the
Fourth Annual Northeast US WebCT Conference. Dr. Scott Warnock presents at the
2006 Conference on College Composition and Communication on technology
solutions for responding to student writing. Dr. Heather McGovern, of the Richard
Stockton State College of New Jersey, presents "Teaching with Technology: Online
Rubric-Based Grading" at the 2006 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Conference.
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02.02.06 Subjective Metrics donates $2,500 to the Drexel University
Writing Program in recognition of its pioneering work in demonstrating
Waypoint's utility and broad applicability.
08.15.05 The Villanova
University School of Law selects Waypoint for use in its legal writing
program.
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07.29.05 The Richard Stockton State College of New Jersey selects
Waypoint for application in its general studies program. Read about
Stockton's first impressions and applications for Waypoint in their
November Evidence Newsletter (pdf, 172k)
06.03.05 The University of Pennsylvania Law School selects Waypoint for
application in its legal writing curriculum.
05.05.05 Andrew McCann is the featured speaker in the Drexel
University's e-Learning speaker series (includes links to a screencast and
podcast of the event).
04.05.05 Archbishop Ryan High School, one of the largest Catholic high
schools in the country with over 2,800 students enrolled, selects
Waypoint to help improve feedback, PSAT scores, and advance writing
across the curriculum initiatives.
03.22.05 The Drexel University College of Business pilots Waypoint for
use in developing AACSB accreditation data, documenting student
outcomes, and improving the feedback process.
12.16.04 Waypoint and Subjective Metrics, Inc. are featured in The
Evening Bulletin article, "A Waypoint for Writing Instructors."
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10.10.04 Waypoint is the lead article, "Structured, Online
Evaluations and the First Year Design Process", in IEEE Learning
Technology.
09.15.04 Drexel University announces site license agreement
(2004-2005 academic year) in its Drexelink publication. The
Lower Merion School District selects Waypoint to help teachers in
its two award winning high schools create more detailed
feedback more quickly and effectively. Waypoint is featured in
Innovation Philadelphia.
07.05.04 Waypoint is featured in the Writing Program
Administrators' Conference Presentation: Deconstructing
Boundaries Through Technologically Enhanced Response.
04.23.04 Waypoint is featured in the WebCT User Conference
Presentation: "Longitudinal Assessment, Accountability, and
Productivity: Facilitating the Writing Process."
03.10.04 Waypoint is featured in the College Composition and
Communication Convention Presentation: “A Web-Based Tool for
Writing Evaluation and Curricular Assessment.”
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