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
Dr. Avery Russell, Assistant Professor of Biology received an Assessment Grant for his project, Toward Enhanced Teaching of Evolution: Supervised Peer-Mentoring by Graduate Students. This project will allow graduate students taking BIO 515/616 (Evolution) to become peer mentors. Prior to each weekly Recitation, peer mentors will learn the material with the opportunity to ask … [Read more...] about Toward Enhanced Teaching of Evolution: Supervised Peer-Mentoring by Graduate Students
In the 2019-2020 academic year, Assessment Council is excited to welcome four student representatives to our ranks. Along with our student reps, the council consists of two representatives from each college, along with members from the Career Center, Computer Services, Diversity and Inclusion, General Education, the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, Institutional … [Read more...] about Missouri State Assessment Council: Breaking Silos on Campus
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