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Universal Assessment Challenges In Healthcare Related Education, Jane M. Souza

Educational Effectiveness Assessment Faculty/Staff Publications

Webinar Description:

Whether you are accountable to the American Council on Pharmacy Education, the Standards for Accreditation of Medical Education Programs Leading to the MD Degree, the World Federal Medical Education Standards, or any other accrediting agency, you have no doubt seen the increased emphasis on the use of student outcomes data. The call to articulate formal program objectives and track assessment of student achievement on those objectives is universal. This webinar will demonstrate how the learning analytics capabilities of ExamSoft can be used to address both didactic and experiential objectives to serve multiple purposes including remediation, curriculum development, and …

The College Is Our Classroom: Campus Assessment Leaders Share Their Most Effective (And Favorite) Faculty Development Programs, Caroline A. Critchlow, Jane M. Souza, Lori A. Hollenbeck, Cathy S. Sweet

Educational Effectiveness Assessment Faculty/Staff Publications

The goal of assessment is to inform instructional strategies in order to improve student learning. This is as true when you are developing “lessons” for faculty as it is when faculty are designing lessons for their students. By approaching the college campus as a classroom, program-level assessments can indicate areas that might benefit from instructional support.

In this presentation, four assessment leaders, representing both professional schools and general education, share their most effective faculty development programs and how they were created to respond to assessment results. Participants will receive the notes and materials from these faculty development programs.

Hash Marks To Hashtags; Turning Statistics Into Strategic Value Statements, Melissa Jadlos, Christina Hillman

Lavery Library Faculty/Staff Publications

The poster will describe an innovative method for tracking library statistics and mapping them to Strategic Plans and Learning Goals. In addition to standard library statistics, previously untracked contributions are documented, such as internal projects and professional development. Using Google Forms, library interactions are collected in one place and turned into value statements. Using Twitter, the library is able to connect these value statements to the library strategic plan by creating a hashtag for each strategic goal. For example: Librarians spend over 200 hours in one-on-one research consultations #laverylearn

The Library’S Role In Assessment In Higher Education: How It Relates To Information Literacy, Accreditation, And Value, Dorothy Schramm, Cathy S. Sweet

Educational Effectiveness Assessment Faculty/Staff Publications

Changes in college accreditation standards, new competency-based degrees, and the rapid growth of online programming are having a big impact on the academe. Faculty, who were in the past criticized for “living in an ivory tower”, are now actively evaluating their courses to remain competitive and relevant in today’s higher education marketplace.

What does this mean for the college librarian?

Dorothy Schramm, Director of Institutional Assessment at Keuka College, and Cathy Sweet, Assessment Coordinator at St. John Fisher College, will share their insights into the role of the college librarian in the academic curriculum and in administrative decision-making at the …