GENERAL EDUCATION COURSEBASED ASSESSMENT – IT’S EASIER
THAN YOU THINK!
2016-2017
C. Griffin
OVERVIEW
• We teach the skills and content that GVSU and
society want our graduates to have
• We assess how well students learn it (each
course every 3 years)
• We report the results (CAR)
• We revise our courses
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
TEACH the skill and content Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs):
a.
Content Student Learning Outcomes (you have 2 or 3)
a.
Skills Student Learning Outcomes (you have 2 or 3 – more if the
course double dips)
Collaboration
Critical and Creative Thinking
Ethical Reasoning
Information Literacy
Integration
Oral Communication
Problem Solving
Quantitative Literacy
Written Communication
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
1. Do you
know the
Student
Learning
Outcomes for
your course?
2. Do you
know the
definition of
the Student
Learning
Outcomes?
Go to the GE website, www.gvsu.edu/gened. Click on “Faculty Resources”, then “Assessment”.
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
3. How
will you
teach the
SLOs?
Go to the GE website, www.gvsu.edu/gened. Click on “Faculty Resources”, then “Assessment”.
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
• Grades – you can’t use grades! (UAC)
• Use course-embedded measures because
- Students take it seriously because it is a
graded assignment
- Results can cycle back faster to improve
teaching
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
•Assessment is a work-in-progress
•No pre- and post-test needed
•One measurement of learning is fine
–You may not want to assess all SLOs with one
measure
•Assess towards the end of the term
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
4 Objectives
Levels of Student Learning
The levels of student learning are:
3 = Proficient: the level we expect for all graduating seniors
2 = Progressing: the level we hope we always reach after having a
chance or two at teaching students skills or content
1 = Baseline: the level we can reasonably expect for adequately
prepared entering students
Blank = The student did not submit the assignment.
4 = Distinguished: the aspirational level that we hope graduating students will achieve (rare)
0 = Below baseline (rare)
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
Content Development Trajectory in General Education Courses
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
• Assess=something that could be graded in your class.
• You MUST use the GE rubric to assign assessment scores (1-3)
• You can’t use a grade to assign a score (3 is not an A or a B)
– For example: A student may get an A- on an assignment in a Foundation
course, but they may only receive a 2 on written communication
• Critical point → One measure (e.g., a paper) can measure many SLOs but
you must evaluate each SLO separately (students aren’t likely to have
identical scores on writing and content for one assignment).
• We encourage you to share the assessment rubrics you have “scored” with
students so they know where they need to focus their efforts.
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
4. How
will you
assess
the
SLOs?
Go to the GE website, www.gvsu.edu/gened. Click on “Faculty Resources”, then “Assessment”.
5. Do
you
know
how to
log in?
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
Main Page
Click here for your section
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
Export the spreadsheet or enter your data online
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
Content Student Learning Outcomes
Content SLOs
These are broad questions (make sure the
students see the forest for the trees). It is NOT
the score on an exam or the course grade.
Enter a 1, 2, 3 (or more rarely a blank, 0 or 4) in every cell.
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
Skills Student Learning Outcomes
Enter a score for each objective for each Student Learning Outcome
(there are 3 or 4 objectives for each SLO)
Enter a 1, 2, 3 (or more rarely a blank, 0 or 4) in every cell.
6. Enter
the
assessment
data online
• Submit the data
before Dec. 30
(Fall), or May 5
(Winter)
• We’ll email you
figures of your
results.
Go to the GE website, www.gvsu.edu/gened. Click on “Faculty Resources”, then “Assessment”.
TEACH, ASSESS, REPORT, REVISE
• Report on what you learned in
the CAR.
7. Complete
the CAR
(Course
Assessment
Report)
• In the CAR discuss how you plan
to revise the course (teaching
and/or assessing)
• Submit the CAR by Feb. 1 for Fall
courses, by May 19 for Winter
courses
• Write 1 CAR – jointly - for all the
sections that collected data
• Email CAR to: [email protected]