The Office of Assessment would like to extend congratulations to Dr. Luciane Maimone of the Modern and Classical Languages department. Dr. Maimone won an assessment grant intended to evaluate student learning in online introductory Spanish courses as compared to seated courses. Dr. Maimone’s research team plans to assess student proficiency in both spoken and written … [Read more...] about Assessing proficiency in seated versus online Spanish beginner courses
Congratulations to Biology instructor Tina Hopper, who won an Assessment Grant for the Summer 2019 semester. Hopper’s project hopes to increase collaboration between general education instructors in Biology. Her hope is that if all general education instructors have parallel goals, all students will have a parallel learning experience regardless of which section of BIO 101 … [Read more...] about Increasing Collaboration to Enhance Student Learning in BIO 101
The following is a summary of the 2017-2018 General Education Information Literacy survey. This survey asked students for feedback and for input on how to improve Information Literacy general education courses. 92% of 118 survey respondents are classified as freshman (63%) or sophomores (29%). 41% of respondents indicated that the Information Literacy course they took … [Read more...] about Summary of General Education Information Literacy Survey
The following is a summary of the Human Cultures General Education Survey for 2017-2018. This survey asked students for feedback and for input on how to improve Human Cultures general education courses. 60% of 414 respondents are classified as freshmen (27%) or sophomores (33%). 24% are classified as juniors. 50% of respondents stated that the Human Cultures course(s) … [Read more...] about Summary of the Human Cultures General Education Survey
Judith Martinez: Uses and Impact of Social Media (Instagram) on Spanish as a Foreign Language Acquisition Judith Martinez, Assistant Professor in Modern and Classical Languages, was recently awarded an Assessment of Student Learning Grant for her project, “Uses and Impact of Social Media (Instagram) on Spanish as a Foreign Language Acquisition.” This project will assess … [Read more...] about Assessing Uses and Impact of Social Media on Foreign Language Learning