Enacted Assessment of Disability Support: A “Lived” Method for Assessing Student Life

Abstract

How does an institution assess the experiences of only one one-thousandth of its overall population? And how does it assess something as non-discrete as “student experience”? In the on-going efforts to assess the quality of life for mobility-impaired students on a mid-sized residential campus, the authors built upon focus group research that identified areas of both success and shared concern by developing a novel form of video-based assessment utilizing split-screen analysis. This analysis was neither especially time-consuming, nor especially expensive, nor particularly difficult to conduct, yet produced immediate, valuable, and useful data. To view supplemental material that accompanies this article, the video, "Enacted Assessment of Disability Support: A "Lived" Method for Assessing Student Life," click http://vimeo.com/59445320