Knowledge Surveyor Project Home Page

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Knowledge Surveyor is a new course, curriculum, and program assessment tool designed to help students and faculty discover the strengths and weaknesses of their methods and preparation. It promotes learning by helping students better understand their instructors' learning expectations, and by helping instructors better communicate those expectations to their students.

Knowledge Surveyor implements a novel way of assessing course design and presentation that moves significantly beyond peer observation and conventional student evaluations. It facilitates an objective means to determine a teacher's degree of success in covering a course's planned content, the effectiveness of the teaching methods employed, and the appropriateness of the teacher's expectations about student preparedness.

Knowledge Surveyor also serves faculty, departments, and administrators concerned with the measurement of student achievement in courses, curricula, and entire programs of study.

Knowledge Surveyor is a Web-based implementation of the "knowledge survey" concept promoted by Nuhfer and Knipp (2003).  The online tour breifly explains the philosophy and functionality of Knowledge Surveyor, and includes screenshots to help give a feel for what Knowledge Surveyor is and how it works.