Events

Intended Audience: The primary audiences for this workshop are faculty and staff who want to learn how to deconstruct outcomes. Participants will be guided through an interactive process of breaking program learning outcomes into its component parts. Then, they will engage in discussions that foster intentional connections between general education outcomes and program learning outcomes […]

Abstract: By participating actively in this brief workshop, you’ll get hands-on practice using at least six simple, flexible classroom assessment techniques. You can adapt these techniques to assess your students’ learning and to help them self-assess and improve. You’ll benefit from practical guidelines for success – dos and don’ts – based on more than two […]

Abstract: To some degree, assessment is always a bureaucratic compliance burden. However, it can also be a powerful process for researching, documenting, and improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and reputations of our academic programs. If designed and done well, assessment can actually save faculty time and program resources. This fast-paced, highly interactive, hands-on session provides research-based […]

Abstract: Engaging students in productive group work is critical to deep, lasting learning—but also very hard to do well. Likewise, formative assessment can contribute greatly to learning by providing early feedback, but it can also be difficult to manage and time consuming. In this interactive session, we’ll consider and experiment with simple, practical, and mutually […]

Intended Audience: This workshop is primarily for faculty and staff who are responsible for developing a student learning outcomes assessment plan for a new educational program or revising an existing student learning outcomes assessment plan for an established educational program. Workshop Outcomes: Workshop participants will learn: 1) how to develop a student learning outcomes assessment […]

HEIghten Critical Thinking and Written Communication assessments allow colleges and universities to measure the outcomes of general education programs and to use the resulting data to improve curriculum. The critical thinking assessment measures a student’s ability to: evaluate evidence and its use understand implications and consequences analyze and evaluate arguments understand causation and explanation develop […]

HEIghten Critical Thinking and Written Communication assessments allow colleges and universities to measure the outcomes of general education programs and to use the resulting data to improve curriculum. The critical thinking assessment measures a student’s ability to: evaluate evidence and its use understand implications and consequences analyze and evaluate arguments understand causation and explanation develop […]

HEIghten Critical Thinking and Written Communication assessments allow colleges and universities to measure the outcomes of general education programs and to use the resulting data to improve curriculum. The critical thinking assessment measures a student’s ability to: evaluate evidence and its use understand implications and consequences analyze and evaluate arguments understand causation and explanation develop […]