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MSU Project Goals. Involve faculty in a process of examining and evaluating the liberal learning goal for Quantitative and Scientific Reasoning (QR/SR). Assess QR/SR of students at Michigan State University Use the data to guide curricular change and faculty teaching practice.
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MSU Project Goals • Involve faculty in a process of examining and evaluating the liberal learning goal for Quantitative and Scientific Reasoning (QR/SR). • Assess QR/SR of students at Michigan State University • Use the data to guide curricular change and faculty teaching practice
Phase 1: Summer 2007 Align the JMU Assessment with the Needs of MSU • Developed 8 learning goals for QR and SR • Aligned the JMU assessment items with the objectives • Created items to fill “gaps” in the alignment between JMU items and MSU objectives
Phase 2: Fall 2007 Faculty Involvement and Support • University Committee on Liberal Learning • Faculty goal ranking task • Individual faculty comments on the items
Phase 3: Spring 2008 • Pilot the JMU and MSU QR/SR items in elective and majors courses. • Partnership with Quantitative Literacy Working Group • Agreement from Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education to test incoming students during summer orientation
Phase 4: Spring 2008 An MSU Specific Assessment and Process • Integrate the SR/QR and QL goals • Create a blueprint for MSU combined assessment using the results of faculty rankings • Choose items based on the psychometric analysis of pilot data • Refine items using cognitive interviews with students
Phase 4: Summer 2008 and beyond • Test incoming freshmen at Academic Orientation • Follow-up testing prior to “junior standing” • Test in capstone courses • Use the data to make programmatic and pedagogical changes to enhance the quality of undergraduate education at MSU
MSU Team • Diane Ebert-May - Plant Biology • Dennis Gilliland - Statistics and Probability • Vince Melfi - Statistics and Probability • Megan Donahue - Physics and Astronomy • Jennifer Kaplan - Science and Mathematics Education • Gabe Ording - Center for Integrated Studies and Entomology • Alla Sikorskii - Statistics and Probability • Elena Bray Speth - Plant Research Lab and Plant Biology • Nicole Johnson - Teacher Education • Doug Estry - Office of the Provost