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Assessment Basics: How To Implement An Effective Student Learning Assessment Process, Frederick Burrack
Assessment Basics: How To Implement An Effective Student Learning Assessment Process, Frederick Burrack
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Assessment Basics is a workshop focused on understanding the purpose behind student learning assessment, strategies to guide curricular integration, and techniques to use data for program improvement. Participants will be involved in leadership techniques to transfer into their own context.
Using Canvas Lms Learning Outcomes Assessment And Program Improvement, Frederick Burrack
Using Canvas Lms Learning Outcomes Assessment And Program Improvement, Frederick Burrack
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This session will provide a step-by-step process of creating program outcomes in Canvas. These outcomes are aligned with assessment tasks through the scoring devices used in courses, internships, or other course-based means through which students demonstrate outcomes proficiencies.
Program Assessment – Implementing A Cycle Of Continuous Improvement, Terri Gaeddert
Program Assessment – Implementing A Cycle Of Continuous Improvement, Terri Gaeddert
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Presenter and participants will discuss challenges of assessment processes and best practices available to assessment coordinators, department chairs, and administrators to support a culture of assessment for continuous improvement. The presenter will share how adjusting the timeline of assessment reporting provided for increased data collection and more meaningful discussion and reflection on data trends.
Lessons Learned: Curriculum Map As An Assessment Tool, Paul Antonellis
Lessons Learned: Curriculum Map As An Assessment Tool, Paul Antonellis
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
During this session, participants will learn about the steps taken to use curriculum mapping as an assessment tool, what worked well, challenges encountered, and recommendations going forward at the graduate and undergraduate level. The program will demonstrate how the program curriculum map can be linked to the general educational outcomes and aligned with intuition outcomes (Banta, 2014; Hundley & Kahn, 2019). Curriculum mapping will reveal program strengths and weaknesses before beginning the assessment process, avoiding costly mistakes in the assessment process. The mapping process will assist in determining which outcomes are assessed, when the outcome is assessed, and in which …
Accreditation And Assessment: What You Need To Know!, Frederick Burrack
Accreditation And Assessment: What You Need To Know!, Frederick Burrack
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
For many academic leaders, preparing for and successfully addressing accreditation expectations can be challenging. In this interactive session, a panel of representatives from multiple disciplines will provide advice and answer questions on how to prepare for and address accreditation expectations. Panel participants will be selected from assessment directors and program directors with successful experience in a variety of accreditation situations. Session participants will be invited to ask questions specific to their academic situations enabling the panel to provide insights toward a successful accreditation experience.
Assessment Basics: How To Implement An Effective Student Learning Assessment Process, Frederick Burrack
Assessment Basics: How To Implement An Effective Student Learning Assessment Process, Frederick Burrack
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Assessment Basics is a workshop focused on understanding the purpose behind student learning assessment, strategies to guide curricular integration, and techniques to use data for program improvement. Participants will be involved in leadership techniques to transfer into their own context. Experience with assessment processes will enable academic chairpersons with skills to guide faculty involvement and promote self-review of data that leads to continual program improvement.
Achieving Learning Outcomes In The World Of Covid, Jeffrey Ward, Frederick Burrack
Achieving Learning Outcomes In The World Of Covid, Jeffrey Ward, Frederick Burrack
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Presenters assessment will explore how focusing on the learning outcomes guides faculty into determining best instructional practices in a remote/hybrid delivery method, illustrating examples of faculty shifting from traditional face-to-face teaching strategies to remote or hybrid teaching strategies, while achieving the same learning outcomes.
Assessment Basics: How To Implement An Effective Student Learning Assessment Process, Frederick Burrack
Assessment Basics: How To Implement An Effective Student Learning Assessment Process, Frederick Burrack
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Assessment Basics is a workshop focused on understanding the purpose behind student learning assessment, strategies to guide curricular integration, and techniques to use data for program improvement. Participants will be involved in leadership techniques to transfer into their own context. Experience with assessment processes will enable academic chairpersons with skills to guide faculty involvement and promote self-review of data that leads to continual program improvement. Assessments in higher education are crucial in providing indicators of the educational effectiveness and quality of its educational offerings. Assessments help students, instructors, and administrators answer various questions about student development, the value of specific …
Using Canvas Lms Learning Outcomes Assessment And Program Improvement, Frederick Burrack
Using Canvas Lms Learning Outcomes Assessment And Program Improvement, Frederick Burrack
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This session will provide a step-by-step process of creating program outcomes in Canvas. These outcomes are aligned with assessment tasks through the scoring devices used in courses, internships, or other course-based means through which students demonstrate outcomes proficiencies. The session will provide a foundational understanding of the architecture of the Canvas Assessment Portal and how it connects with assessment tasks to automate data collection. Processes of working with programs and faculty will be shared that have been found to enable ownership of assessment processes. The session will end with the process of preparing data for analysis by faculty and program …
Continuing The Conversation On Collegiality, Angela Walters, Stacey Smith, Melissa Hunsicker-Walburn, Brooke Moore
Continuing The Conversation On Collegiality, Angela Walters, Stacey Smith, Melissa Hunsicker-Walburn, Brooke Moore
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Are you interested in measuring and incentivizing collegiality? Do you have concerns with using collegiality for faculty development, merit, or tenure? Bring your experiences and perspectives to the table as three department chairs and their college dean (a lawyer) facilitate a healthy discussion on the measurement tools, legal landscape, and business case for collegiality.
Integrating Assessment With Teaching And Learning Excellence: A Proactive Model, Teresa Flateby, Patricia Gregg
Integrating Assessment With Teaching And Learning Excellence: A Proactive Model, Teresa Flateby, Patricia Gregg
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Is your department a pocket of excellence? Through interactive case studies and discussion, you will learn how to systematically and proactively connect student learning assessment with curriculum and instructional planning. Walk away with a plan of concrete action steps to get in the pocket to maximize student learning.
Revealed: Secret Ingredients In The Chairperson’S Recipe For Assessment, Ryan Chung, Frederick Burrack, Kelva Hunger
Revealed: Secret Ingredients In The Chairperson’S Recipe For Assessment, Ryan Chung, Frederick Burrack, Kelva Hunger
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Academic chairpersons often experience frustration or lack of support when helping faculty/staff develop and administer assessment processes. This session will provide information and strategies on how to effectively guide program assessment processes.
What We Can Learn From College Reform In The Eu, Jacqueline Kress
What We Can Learn From College Reform In The Eu, Jacqueline Kress
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
The Bologna Process—a curriculum reform encompassing 48 EU countries—engages faculty by discipline to articulate what students should be able to know, do, and understand at each degree level through academic dialogue. This session overviews its mechanisms and challenges and provides guidance for applying its lessons at US institutions.
Reality Check: Early Intervention In Gateway Courses, Barbara Brown
Reality Check: Early Intervention In Gateway Courses, Barbara Brown
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Early each semester, most professors can identify which of their students may succeed and which may not, but they may not know the reasons why or how to respond. Systematic reporting on at-risk students can help both professors and students recognize performance issues and possibly intervene before it’s too late
Shifting The Culture Through Strategic Moves And Hires, Sarah Edwards
Shifting The Culture Through Strategic Moves And Hires, Sarah Edwards
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Wondering how to motivate faculty to be the drivers for building and maintaining an assessment system that works? Join this session to consider how to make strategic moves and hires designed to have faculty own data and view assessment as a vital part of the faculty role.
Assessment Of Student Learning As A Driver To Departmental Development, Andrea Lassiter
Assessment Of Student Learning As A Driver To Departmental Development, Andrea Lassiter
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Revising and revitalizing an approach to student learning assessment can be a meaningful growth experience. Being intentional about such development during regular academic planning and reporting cycles is central to leading faculty through change. This session will highlight some strategies that can be used to promote individual- and departmental-level development.
Leveraging Faculty Development And Assessment Efforts: A Case Study, Ryan Chung
Leveraging Faculty Development And Assessment Efforts: A Case Study, Ryan Chung
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
While assessment is critical for enhancement of student learning, it is rarely viewed explicitly as an essential aspect of faculty development. The presenter will share stories and experiences in developing and implementing assessment initiatives as faculty development, leading to strong culture of assessment at a research one institution.
Trends In Assessment: Implications And Opportunities For Department Chairs, Stephen P. Hundley
Trends In Assessment: Implications And Opportunities For Department Chairs, Stephen P. Hundley
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Learn about trends in assessment from the executive editor of Assessment Update and chair of the national-level Assessment Institute. Attention will be paid to the role of the chair in creating a culture of assessment, supporting student success, and in using assessment results to inform department planning and improvement efforts.
Meaningful Reviews: Reframing Evaluation To Yield Positive Change, Sharon Decker
Meaningful Reviews: Reframing Evaluation To Yield Positive Change, Sharon Decker
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This session will focus on how to reframe the culture of evaluation in order to encourage active and engaged faculty participation. The discussion will center on objectives, forms, and outcomes in order to create a process that will ultimately improve pedagogical techniques and philosophies.
Implementing Program And Department Advisory Boards, Karen Blaisure Phd, Bryce Dickey Ms, Linda Dove Ma, John Mcelroy Phd
Implementing Program And Department Advisory Boards, Karen Blaisure Phd, Bryce Dickey Ms, Linda Dove Ma, John Mcelroy Phd
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Presenters will guide participants through a process to establish and maintain an advisory board for an academic program or department and will leave with ideas, suggestions, and a potential plan to share with faculty. Advisory board participation in assessment and improving academic curricula will be highlighted.
Faculty Input In Evaluation For A College With Many Disciplines, David Bellar, Nathan M. Roberts, Paula M. Montgomery
Faculty Input In Evaluation For A College With Many Disciplines, David Bellar, Nathan M. Roberts, Paula M. Montgomery
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
The co-presenters will describe how faculty in one academic unit of a large College combining many academic disciplines were tasked with examining best practices and development of a faculty merit performance evaluation rubric. Perspective on the project will be offered by the initiating School Director, Dean of the College and Associate Dean of the College .
Understanding & Communicating Business Program Outcomes Through Visualization And Mapping, Kelli Schutte
Understanding & Communicating Business Program Outcomes Through Visualization And Mapping, Kelli Schutte
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This session will share the process and outcome of a business program curriculum assessment. The assessment includes conceptual frameworks, curriculum mapping and data visualization to convey results. The process of developing the plan, collecting data and conveying results will be shared.
Building Toward A Shared Culture Focused On Student Learning, Andrea Lassiter
Building Toward A Shared Culture Focused On Student Learning, Andrea Lassiter
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Revising or establishing student learning goals for a department can be a key point for driving change in curriculum, program structure, and faculty development. This session describes one department’s efforts toward culture change with student learning goals that feed higher level institutional objectives, comprehensive program assessment, and accreditation.
Conducting A Department Or Program Self-Study And External Review, Samuel Cotton, Thomas Weidner
Conducting A Department Or Program Self-Study And External Review, Samuel Cotton, Thomas Weidner
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This presentation is to help those preparing to program or department self-studies and related external reviews. It will explore a variety of options and scenarios that are common across institutions relative to this process.
Alignment Of Global Outcomes For Assessment And Accreditation, Ken Ryalls
Alignment Of Global Outcomes For Assessment And Accreditation, Ken Ryalls
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Influential higher education organizations aspire to measure different sets of global student outcomes, yet widespread agreement exists. This presentation centers on how IDEA's Student Ratings of Instruction Learning Objectives align with global outcomes from AAC&U's Value Rubric, Lumina's DQP, HLC's Criteria for Accreditation, and NSSE's Engagement Indicators.
Assessing Student Learning, Dr. Susan Hatfield
Assessing Student Learning, Dr. Susan Hatfield
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Plans to assess student learning are only useful if they are practical, meaningful and sustainable. This workshop will present a step-by-step approach for implementing a student learning assessment plan that will provide useful data for program improvement.
Preparing And Using Classroom Observations In Faculty Teaching Evaluations, Peggy A. Thelen
Preparing And Using Classroom Observations In Faculty Teaching Evaluations, Peggy A. Thelen
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Department chairs charged with evaluating faculty teaching often receive no formal observation and assessment training. This session offers suggestions for the organization, implementation, and reflection of the faculty teaching evaluation process. We will also discuss the difficulties and successes of the faculty teaching evaluation process.