Assessment: Turn Data into Action Through the Power of Storytelling – On-Demand Training

Turn Data into Action Through the Power of Storytelling

You’re collecting the data—but is it driving meaningful change?

Many institutions struggle to move from data collection to decision-making, leaving staff frustrated, students disengaged, and leaders overwhelmed by information that lacks clarity and direction.

Learn how to transform your assessment approach using storytelling as a practical, results-driven tool. Our expert presenter will share how to utilize storytelling as a powerful, practical way to plan assessments with purpose, collect more intentional data, and communicate findings in ways that resonate with stakeholders and students.

Meaning making is often the hardest part of the work of assessment. Storytelling provides a powerful, practical way to plan assessments. Explore how storytelling techniques can be used throughout the assessment cycle, from planning meaningful questions, to organizing and interpreting data, to reporting results in ways that promote understanding and action.

Explore ready-to-use strategies, templates, and examples you can immediately apply to strengthen your assessment process, clarify your message, and inspire action across your campus. Turn results into real change by communicating your findings with impact so stakeholders and students actually engage and respond. 

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you: 

• Develop your sense of identity as an assessment storyteller.
• Explain how basic storytelling structures apply to assessment planning.
• Communicate assessment results more effectively to stakeholders and students by telling your story in a way that makes sense to them. 
• Apply practical tools to support data storytelling in your own assessment practice.
• Overcome barriers to creating visuals so you can transform data into information that is readable and digestible for maximum impact. 
  

Presenter

Daniel J. Kaczmarek is the Director of Student Life Assessment and Research at the University at Buffalo, where he leads division-wide assessment, evaluation, and planning initiatives that advance co-curricular learning and enhance the student experience.
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