What is assessment?

In its broadest sense, assessment is the process of setting goals, choosing strategies to help achieve those goals, checking on whether those strategies are working, and then making adjustments as necessary, i.e. when the strategies aren't working as we'd like or the goals change.

When seen in this light, it's clear to me that assessment is a life philosophy, not just something that educators do. And, like any life philosophy, it's not for everyone.

Editing, writing, tutoring, and consulting: reflection on connections

One might look at the tabs at the top of this page and think, "What an odd assortment of services. What do editing and writing have to do with tutoring and consulting? It would make more sense to divide them up. Was she too lazy to create separate sites?"

When I created this site I knew I wanted it to serve two purposes: first, to market my services to a wide audience; second, to pull together the fragments of my life and help me see the connections between them.

For this latter reason it was important to have one site that spoke to all the things I do well. But I worried that the second purpose might undermine the first. Would people looking for a writer balk at seeing me market myself as an editor, tutor and consultant? Would people looking for an assessment consultant cringe to see I'm also looking for writing and editing gigs? Could I really be good at any of these things if I claim to be good at all of them?