Over the past seven years, many of you have joined us at our Annual Assessment Workshops each May to assess student learning in Public Affairs and General Education. This year, we're shifting focus to graduate programs. We won't be able to hold our traditional face-to-face workshop, but we do have a plan to host a virtual workshop via Zoom. While that means you won't get … [Read more...] about Graduate Assessment Workshop
Congratulations to Natalie Curry, coordinator of the Bachelor of Social Work program, on her recent receipt of an Assessment grant for her project “Student Engagement Strategies in an Asynchronous Online Course.” Curry’s project targets increasing student engagement in the only social welfare policy course offered by the BSW program. She will be using data collected from … [Read more...] about Student Engagement Strategies in an Asynchronous Online Course
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
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
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