National Assessment Week
Thank you to all who participated in National Assessment Week 2026! Dates for National Assessment Week 2027 will be shared when available.
The National Assessment Week, started in 2022, is an entirely free, 99% online professional development and community-building opportunity for faculty and staff that support assessment and accreditation efforts.
In 2026, Purdue University began contributing to both the national agenda of events AND provided Purdue-only events for our PAALs and broader campus community.
- ELEVATING CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT: Strategies for Meaningful Measurement
- Audience: Faculty/instructors, graduate students, student life/affairs professionals.
- BEYOND THE ALGORITHM: Ethics, Oversight, and the Future of AI in Qualitative Assessment Methods
- Audience: Researchers, scholars, graduate students, some undergraduate students, those curious about qualitative methods and assessment.
- QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN ACTION: Advancing Assessment through Insight and Strategy
- Audience: Researchers, scholars, graduate students, some undergraduate students, those curious about qualitative methods and assessment.
Founded in 2021, our Purdue Assessment and Accreditation Leaders – PAALs for short – are spread out across Purdue and have tasks or duties affiliated with assessment, accreditation, program evaluation, and internal or external review processes. Participation in PAALs is entirely voluntary.
The group is positioned as a community of practitioners, emphasizing collaboration and shared learning rather than formal authority.
PAALs aims to:
- Build a cross‑campus community
- Create and share resources (e.g., mini‑grants, definitions, showcases of practice, mentoring)
- Exchange knowledge from accreditation and assessment experiences
- Collaborate on shared data collection and reporting efforts to support efficiency and integrity.
To join our growing list of PAALs email IDA+A.