Jessica Chittum

Assessment and Pedagogical Innovation
American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
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Jessica Chittum, PhD, is the Director of Assessment and Pedagogical Innovation in the Office of Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation (OCPI) at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). In her role, Jessica engages in research, project management, and editorial work primarily supporting AAC&U’s VALUE initiative and OCPI’s work on ePortfolios and digital pedagogies. Her research interests involve assessment, higher education pedagogy, ePortfolio, and academic motivation. Jessica completed a PhD in Educational Psychology at Virginia Tech as well as a BS in Elementary Education and an MA in Exceptional Student Education from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Prior to AAC&U, Jessica served as an elementary and middle grades educator in a Florida public school system, and then as an Assistant Professor of Elementary Education and Middle Grades Education at East Carolina University.

Develop your teaching with Jessica Chittum
An Introduction to the VALUE Rubrics An Authentic Approach to Assessment
Introduction to the VALUE Rubrics: An Authentic Approach to Assessment
by Jessica Chittum, Kate D. McConnell

Learn how the American Association of Colleges and Universities’s (AAC&U) VALUE rubrics can help you evaluate students’ performance reliably and verifiably across 16 cross-cutting learning outcomes that underpin liberal education.

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