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When it comes to the future of assessment, I think it's all right for faculty to create buckets. ---------- Bucket 1: Short-term changes that get us thorugh the day, the week, or the month. We can revise assessments by grounding them in other modules or in-class activities, using multimedia, or including a synchronous component. Maybe these end up being band-aids. That's all right. Band-aids are useful. ---------- Bucket #2: Long-term changes These are things like shifting to process-focused assignments, creating a culture of transparency, or shifting to alternative assessment. I think they'll have longer shelflives. But they take a while to set up. ******************** We can't do everthing all at once. I think it's perfectly all right to do small changes that get us through the semester, and recognize that we'll need bigger, more systemic changes down the road. That's what I talked about during my keynote at San Diego Community College District. We talked about how to manage those buckets. It's a key part of the conversation, because on surefire way to create change paralysis is to say "change everything about what you teach, right now."