Assessment Interview Assignment

For my Assessment Interview assignment, I choose to interview someone in my future career field. My future career is to become an Academic Director of Athletics. I interviewed the wonderful, Marvin Mitchell. Marvin has worked in athletics for an overall 25 years and has been with Cardinal Athletics for the last 19 years. I had the pleasure to work for Marvin from 2007 to 2012 while in undergrad. As I observed how much passion Marvin had for his career and the impact he left on students inspired me to obtain my Master’s Degree in order to join the team permanently. Marvin’s position as an Assistant Athletic Director of Academic Service, consists of welcoming incoming athletes and making sure they get with the right staff member in their selected sport section. He then keeps the staff updated on NCAA rules and regulations in order to stay within proper code. His job doesn’t stop there as he manages all 21 sports at the university. Among his many duties his main priority is making sure all student-athletes stay academically eligible and earn a degree he does this by ensuring he has the right staff member on his team and by implementing assessments. I started the interview by focusing mainly on assessments. I wanted to see how long Marvin has been using assessments within his field of work and who introduced him to them and why he thought they were beneficial. Mitchell shared that he has been using assessments most of his life. He was a student from 1992-1995 earning both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree. As a
Mitchell was, Does he personally believe assessments improve learning? Why and how? Marvin whole heartedly believe assessments help. He has watched students use pre assessments to measure their knowledge level and then work with tutors and use additional guides and surpass their previous assessment level. Assessments can help identify a trouble area and with the right help this troubled area can be