David Kirk Dirlam is an Educational Assessment Consultant.

• Part I. Beginning the Identification of Modes of Practice 1. Defining the Unit of Human Practices Part II. Exploring Modes of Practice 2. The Developmental Survey 3. The Developmental Interview Part III. Sustaining Research, Design, and Interpretation of Modes of Practice 4. Organizing Multiple Interviews into Learning Outcomes Networks 5. Embedded Networks of Fields of Expertise 6. Creating a Coherent and Accelerated Development Curriculum for the Liberal Arts 7. Transformative Learning Sequences Part IV. Inspiring the Development of Expert Practice 8. Personal and Collaborative Assessment 9. Creating and Analyzing Impacts of Instructional Designs 10. Developing Cultures of Practice 11. Praxomics with Ecological Questions for Research on Modes of Practices 12. Discovery, Innovation and Precedent of Modes of Practice

"Dr. David Dirlam has provided the field of education with a technique for truly understanding the intricate and essential pieces of the learning process. This has been done in a way that is complex, as learning is not a simple process. But the complexity which is presented is an indispensable approach to the development of meaningful and transformative education and the assessment of that learning." - Catherine M. Wehlburg, Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness at Texas Christian University, USA.