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
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
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