Learn strategies for making education assessment results more useful

Summarizing and Using Assessment Results

Accreditation agencies and others are increasingly requiring institutions not only to assess student learning and institutional effectiveness but to then use the results to improve teaching, learning, programs, and services. This seminar discusses how to share assessment results in meaningful ways and use the results to improve programs and services.

You put a lot of hard work into creating student assessments. And then what? Are you sharing your results? Celebrating your successes? Using your findings to improve methods, programs and services?

With all the time spent developing and administering assessments, it’s a shame if you don’t actually do something with all that valuable data you’ve collected. Even disappointing outcomes can lead to improvements if they cause you to tweak the curriculum, or explore new teaching methods.

View a brief clip from the seminar:

In Summarizing and Using Assessment Results, Linda Suskie, VP of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, provides a wealth of ideas on how to share your assessment results in meaningful ways, and use them to continuously improve programs and services.

During this presentation, you’ll learn how to:

Identify the true purpose of your assessments.
Create and share assessment summaries that are useful to you and your colleagues.
Find the story in your assessment results, and tell that story effectively.
Focus assessment summaries on decisions that the results can inform.
Celebrate and publicize good assessment results.
Analyze the possible causes of disappointing results: goals, programs, pedagogies, or assessments.
And much more.

In short, you’ll discover smart, practical ways to ensure that the time and effort you put into assessments translate into meaningful opportunities for growth, change and improvement.

When you order the recording of this seminar on CD, you’ll also receive a PDF of the transcript, all for the same price as attending the seminar live.

An optional Campus Access License is available for an additional $200. It allows the purchasing institution to upload the CD of the seminar onto the institution’s password-protected internal web site for unlimited access by members of the campus community.

Who will benefit:

Chief academic officers
Deans
Assistant/associate provosts/vice presidents for academic affairs
Assessment coordinators/directors
Assessment committee members
Institutional research directors
Student development staff
Academic administrators
Faculty governance leaders
Department chairs

You work hard to create assessments…make sure they work hard in return. Discover how to use them to benefit your institution, your students and you!

All seminars include a discussion guide for facilitators
Participating in a Magna Online Seminar as a team can help leverage unique insights, foster collaboration, and build momentum for change. Each seminar now includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators which provides step-by-step instructions for generating productive discussions and thoughtful reflection. You’ll also get guidelines for continuing the conversation after the event, implementing the strategies discussed, and creating a feedback loop for sharing best practices and challenges.