Presenters and participants will discuss strategies and best practices available to chairs to involve faculty and external constituents in defining student learning outcomes (SLO), direct assessments and a process/department culture of continuous improvement

Garrick, Robert D., PhD

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Kansas State University

Kansas State University Libraries New Prairie Press Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings 35th Academic Chairpersons Conference, Orlando, FL Designing Assessments and Tools for your Program Robert D. Garrick PhD Rochester Institute of Technology, rdgmet@rit.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://newprairiepress.org/accp  Part of the Education Commons, and the Engineering Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Garrick, Robert D. PhD (2018). "Designing Assessments and Tools for your Program," Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings. https://newprairiepress.org/accp/2018/assessment/6 This Event is brought to you for free and open access by the Conferences at New Prairie Press. It has been accepted for inclusion in Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings by an authorized administrator of New Prairie Press. For more information, please contact cads@k-state.edu. Department chairs rely upon Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) assessment to ensure student mastery of material in their program fields and to enable continuous improvement within programs to meet accreditation standards.  Comprehensive assessment plans that use curriculum mapping are helpful in evaluating the degree of learning and areas for improvement.  A curriculum map is a visual tool to review the alignment of SLOs with individual course content in a program.  As part of the mapping process, faculty collaborate with external constituents to define SLOs, map the level of knowledge/skill that students should achieve on each SLO in a given course, develop direct assessment of student learning, and rubrics/scoring guides for each of the SLOs.  It is critical to document development, use, review, and the closing of the assessment loop in a program’s assessment initiative to determine student success.  This presentation reviews a methodology that involves faculty and external constituent teams to define SLOs in the context of specific programs.  The SLOs will guide how faculty groups develop opportunities for the assessment of student learning achievement for each SLO using appropriate assessment activities and tools (rubrics/scoring guides).  The presenter will discuss examples of curriculum mapping, and assessment tools to evaluate straightforward numerical problems, and semi-complex assignments that might require rubrics with multiple performance indicators. The presenter will explain successful implementation of the assessment process to include the development of an assessment cycle for each SLO, and the collection, analysis, and review of the assessment results. Finally, the presentation will provide information regarding the proposal of appropriate actions to enhance student learning and improve program success based on the assessment plan to “close the loop” in the program’s assessment plan.    

Designing Assessments and Tools for your Program

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