ACCELERATE: Building Momentum, Powering Purposes, and Charting Directions-A Letter From the Chair of the Assessment Institute

Against this turbulent backdrop, there is a need to ensure we offer high-quality, student-centered educational experiences in a variety of contexts: in courses and programs, through co-curricular opportunities, and alongside partners in our communities—wherever or however “community” is defined. Included here is the need to develop or update goals for learning, implement evidence-informed interventions aligned with those goals, assess and evaluate progress and outcomes related to the achievement of those goals, and make ongoing improvements to sustain and scale institutional cultures focused on student learning and success. How befitting, therefore, that a new set of principles promoting best practices in assessment—ACCELERATE—has been developed to help us in building momentum, powering purposes, and charting directions.