Dr. Mandy Benedict-Chambers, Associate Professor in Childhood Education and Family Studies, has received an Assessment Grant for her project titled Developing a Strategic Vision for the Elementary Education Graduate Program. In her project, "Faculty will assess current practices in recruitment and admission to the program as well as student learning goals and outcomes for each … [Read more...] about Developing a Strategic Vision for the Elementary Education Graduate Program
Debra Price, Instructor in Childhood Education and Family Studies, has received an Assessment Grant for her project Family and Consumer Sciences Advisory Board. This project will enhance student learning by allowing alumni and stakeholders to come together to review and make recommendations to improving the Family and Consumer Sciences Program at MSU. This project will be used … [Read more...] about Family and Consumer Sciences Advisory Board
Dr. David Rohall, Department Head of Sociology and Anthropology, received an Assessment Grant for his project Initial Assessment of the Value of Program-Level Career Training. In the capstone class, a Pearson product called Foliotek will be added. Foliotek is designed to help students learn how to prepare for the job search. Instructors can monitor students' work in the … [Read more...] about Initial Assessment of the Value of Program-Level Career Training
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