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Recent Seminars
Summarizing and Using Assessment Results
You put a lot of hard work into creating student assessments. And then what? With all the time spent developing and administering assessments, it’s a shame not to reap the benefits of your efforts. This seminar will teach you how to summarize and use your assessment results.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Five Steps to Improving Program-Level Assessment Practices
Student learning outcomes assessment can be defined in a lot of different ways, but Lisa R. Shibley, PhD., assistant vice president for Institutional Assessment and Planning at Millersville University, has a favorite definition. It’s from Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education by Barbara E. Walvoord and states that student learning outcomes assessment is “the systematic collection of information about student learning, using time, knowledge, expertise, and resources available in order to inform decisions about how to improve learning.”
Assessing the Degree of Learner-Centeredness
Since Barr and Tagg introduced the concept of the instructional versus the learner-centered paradigms in 1995, higher education institutions across the country have adopted the concept in one form or another in an attempt to create learning environments that respond both to the changing profile of our students and recent research on learning with the ultimate goal of improving student success.
Learning Outcome Assessment: Creating a Systematic and Transparent Program
Faculty usually hold a set of beliefs that make the whole topic of learning outcome assessment seem boring, useless, or both.
