Assessment Theory of Action
BloomBoard strives to provide learners and faculty with timely, accurate assessment, and high quality feedback to support learner success and ensure a positive learner and faculty experience.
BloomBoard Assessment
The BloomBoard Assessment Team strives to assess submissions within a 3-business-day window and has historically achieved that goal with 98% efficiency. See the "Expected Time for Submission Assessment" Support Article to learn more about the assessment window.
To streamline the assessment process for participants and provide more consistent feedback, BloomBoard has enabled assisted assessment utilizing AI. This new assisted assessment functionality provides the suggested assessment and feedback for approver/faculty so they can more quickly assess work with the aim of getting completed assessments back to participants in a timely manner.
BloomBoard believes that initial analytical assessment by AI results in the most consistent and objective assessment. Analytical assessment is part of the learning process and provides targeted and constructive feedback to the learner.
A human approver (IHE faculty or BloomBoard) may make updates to the assessment and feedback. This may include a more responsive, considerate assessment approach to ensure the assessment is based on the most important requirements and the overall impression of the evidence.
The Role of a BloomBoard Approver
Approvers review the initial AI assisted assessment and the evidence submitted. They combine the ability to assess a portfolio of evidence and the skills to provide quality feedback.
The approver's role is to:
- Determine and communicate submission proficiency solely based on the evidence submitted and the requirements.
- Provide written feedback that is objective, targeted, constructive, positive, and user-friendly.
The Assessment Process
Learners working towards earning submit their completed artifacts of evidence through the BloomBoard platform. To help ensure objectivity, each submission is given an ID number; approvers do not have access to the educator, and their identification remains anonymous.
The assessment process includes AI assisted assessment and an Approver.
- AI assisted assessment: AI conducts the initial assessment analysis, chooses Good or Needs Improvement by Requirement and Part, Met Not Yet Met by Artifact, provides quality feedback, and makes a recommendation to the Approver.
- Approver: Conducts a second review of the evidence; if aligned with the AI-generated scoring and feedback, the approver completes the assessment and submits back to the participant.
Who are the BloomBoard Approvers?
The approvers are education professionals with an average of ~15 years of experience teaching, coaching, mentoring, and evaluating fellow educators. They have met BloomBoard’s eligibility and experience requirements to approve, and have successfully earned a unit which certifies that they can consistently achieve at least 80% alignment to a true score and provide quality feedback.
BloomBoard Approver Spotlight
Approver C has 24 years of experience in education, serving as a classroom and intervention teacher and elementary assistant principal and principal. They have served as the Executive Director of Professional Learning & Leadership Development for a large urban school district (~150,000 students) and worked for the education college at a well known university. They have led the departments of Personalized Learning, VLMS, National Board Certification, Beginning Teacher Development, and Leadership Development. They are an Apple Distinguished Educator, an Apple Certified Teacher, and served as the President of CEASOM, Common Ground Inc, and MSET. They hold a BA from Gettysburg College, Masters from Mount Saint Mary’s and Ed Leadership certification from Hood College.
BloomBoard Approver Certification & Training
A BloomBoard certified approver has demonstrated they have the knowledge and skills to:
- Achieve substantial assessment accuracy (≥ 80% alignment to a true score) across multiple portfolios of evidence submissions.
- Provide feedback on portfolios of evidence that is objective, targeted, constructive, positive, and user-friendly.
- Demonstrate awareness of bias that exists when assessing portfolios of evidence for competency.
- Communicate in writing in a way that promotes accurate interpretation and understanding on the part of the reader through appropriate language usage, mechanics, and grammar.
Once potential approvers have achieved certification, they are required to participate in on-going training and calibration.