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What do you do when your assessment data are in?
Using Assessment Data to Improve Teaching and Learning
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Step 1:Identify Program
Goals
Step 3:Select Assessment
Methods
Step 4:Implement:
Data Collection
Step 5:Analyze the Data:
Step 6:Report Findings
Step 7:Close the Loop
Step 8:Revise the Assessment Plan
and Continue the Loop
Cycle of
Assessment
Step 2:Specify Intended
Learning Outcomes (Objectives)
Examination of student work Capstone projects Essays, papers, oral presentations Scholarly presentations or publications Locally developed examinations
Major field tests (undergraduate) Measures of professional activity
Performance at internship, placement, sites Supervisor evaluations
Miscellaneous Indirect Measures Satisfaction/evaluation questionnaires
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Objective met, no action needed Revise a goal and/or objective A minor or major curriculum change needed Increase admission requirements,
remediation avenues for students, adding prerequisites, increasing or changing specific assignments in existing courses
Provide support structures such as tutoring or student help sessions
Recommend how to implement the action
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“If you didn’t document it, it never happened…”
Document your thought process for all actions.
The clinician’s mantra
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Two broad relationships are possible: A standard was established that students met A standard was established that students did not meet
Document reasoning for reaching a decision about the relationship chosen from the two alternatives shown above.
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◦ To be meaningful, assessment results must be studied, interpreted, and used
◦ Using the results is called “closing the loop”
◦ Conduct outcomes assessment because the findings can be used to improve our programs
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Where assessment and evaluation come together…◦ Assessment:
Gathering, analyzing, and interpreting information about student learning
◦ Evaluation Using assessment
findings to improve institutions, divisions, and department
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To Inform Educational Program Review Committees
To Inform Planning and Budgeting in order to set priorities
To Improve Teaching and Learning To Promote Continuous Improvement To Meet accreditation requirements
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Briefly report methodology for each outcome
Document where the students are meeting the intended outcome
Document where they are not meeting the outcome
Document decisions made to improve the program and assessment plan
Refine assessment method and repeat process after proper time for implementation
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Beware the Lake Woebegone Effect
◦ …where all the students are above average…
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Many degree programs in the Fogelman College used their assessment results to perform evaluations to make program improvements and refine their assessment procedures and educational program -- Thanks to input from the “Closing the Loop” committees.
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What remains most unclear or confusing to you about closing the loop at this point?
To provide comments or ask questions, contact Lloyd Brooks: [email protected]
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