2015 Workshops

Fall 2015 Workshops

Workshop 1 – Writing SMARTA Student Learning Outcomes
Workshop Objectives: Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Compose appropriate student learning outcome statements
  • Explain the differences between course and program outcomes
  • Contrast levels of student learning outcomes
  • Apply S.M.A.R.T.A. criteria to outcome statements

Workshop 2 – Selecting Appropriate Measures for Student Learning Outcomes
Workshop Objectives: Upon conclusion of the workshop, participants will understand:

  • The differences between: summative and formative assessments, direct and indirect measures, and traditional and authentic assessments
  • How the level of expected learning affects the selection of appropriate measures for student learning outcomes.

Workshop 3 – Curriculum Mapping: A Tool for Analyzing Coverage of Program
Workshop Objectives: Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Define curriculum mapping
  • Design basic curriculum maps for programs
  • Analyze curriculum maps to identify gaps, strengths and opportunities
  • Use maps to make decisions about student learning and curricula

​Workshop 4 – Using Assessment Data to Improve Student Learning
Workshop Objectives: Upon conclusion of the workshop, participants will understand:

  • Analytic rubrics and curriculum maps and their value
  • How to use assessment data in conjunction with analytic rubrics and curriculum maps to identify strategies to improve student learning
  • The importance of interpreting assessment data in a collaborative environment.

Spring 2015 Workshops

Workshop 1: Unpacking Student Learning Outcomes for Deeper Student Learning and Success
Workshop Outcomes: Participants will:

  • Unpack student learning outcomes
  • Identify disciplinary thinking that align with general education outcomes that will promote deeper learning
  • Identify authentic assessments (tasks) and rubrics that provide evidence of students skills and abilities.

Workshop 2: Measuring Student Learning
Workshop Outcomes: Workshop participants will learn:

  • How to develop a student learning outcomes assessment plan and analytic rubrics
  • How to properly report student learning outcomes assessment datad
  • How assessment data can be used to improve student learning.

Workshop 3: Making Assessment Meaningful: Using Assessment Results to Improve Student Learning
Workshop Outcomes: Workshop participants will learn:

  • How to create a curriculum map for their programs. These maps can be used to identify gaps in the introduction and reinforcement of learning outcomes.

Tom Angelo Workshops

Faculty & Staff Workshop #1: Practical, Research-based Guidelines: Assessment for Busy Faculty
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 guidelines and practical strategies for learning-centered (and faculty-directed) assessment at program and course levels. You will try out at least five simple, powerful assessment strategies, and leave with one or two to apply immediately to your and students’ advantage in your courses and/or programs.
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Faculty & Staff Workshop #2: Finding Out How Well Students Are Learning What We’re Teaching
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 decades of field-testing, and you’ll receive materials and resources for follow-up. You can expect to leave prepared to try out at least one or two new ideas for assessing — and improving — your own students’ learning.
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Graduate Student Workshop: Promoting Better Learning through Simple, Practical Groupwork, Assessment and Feedback Strategies
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 supportive classroom assessment techniques (CATs) and collaborative learning techniques (CoLTs) that can make teaching and learning more engaging and more effective – without increasing your workload.
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