Grand Challenges Initiative: Producing Actionable and Accessible Results That Drive Innovation and Improvement

To produce actionable and accessible assessment findings that drive innovation and improvement, strategies should be implemented at the national and local level throughout each stage of the assessment process. Fostering these findings is the need to authentically engage stakeholders throughout the assessment process. Done well, the engagement of stakeholders' aids in the creation of relevant outcomes, and, importantly, sharing results using strong data visualization techniques with data storytelling elements. This paper is a summary of the strategies and tactics compiled to address the Grand Challenges in Assessment initiative. The authors listed in this project contributed many hours of discussion, literature review, professional scholarship, and shared personal experiences at their institutions. The product is a collaboration that cannot be attributed to one person or to rank the efforts of team member contributions. The first two listed authors cochaired the group, and the team members are listed as authors in alphabetical order.