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Defining success for students and your project . What makes your practice: “high impact?” Successful? Investment-worthy?. What do you assess and how?. Is your assessment tied to: the achievement of learning outcomes? p ersistence of students? course and/or degree completion?
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Defining success for students and your project • What makes your practice: • “high impact?” • Successful? • Investment-worthy?
What do you assess and how? • Is your assessment tied to: • the achievement of learning outcomes? • persistence of students? • course and/or degree completion? • Does your assessment include: • process measures? • progress measures? • outcome measures?
Why VALUE Rubric? • Purpose 1) Create dialogue and develop shared understanding of common learning outcomes 2) Create template for direct assessment of student work (in text and non-text formats) 3) Create student-friendly format to engage students in self-evaluation • Rubric Development -Teams of faculty/scholars nationwide -Reviewed existing rubrics to identify commonalities, clarify language, and develop broad agreement on outcomes criteria (openedpractices.org) -Accessed by over 3000 institutions, 11,000 individuals Only useful if they are used!!
AAC&U VALUE Rubrics -15 • Intellectual and Practical Skills • Inquiry & Analysis • Critical Thinking • Creative Thinking • Written Communication • Oral Communication • Reading • Quantitative Literacy • Information Literacy • Teamwork • Problem-solving • Personal & Social Responsibility • Civic Knowledge & Engagement • Intercultural Knowledge & Competence • Ethical Reasoning • Foundations & Skills for Lifelong Learning • Integrative & Applied Learning • Integrative & Applied Learning
Inquiry & analysis Inquiry is a systematic process of exploring issues, objects or works through the collection and analysis of evidence that results in informed conclusions or judgments. Analysis is the process of breaking complex topics or issues into parts to gain a better understanding of them. (rubric: product, not process)
The Anatomy of a VALUE Rubric Levels Performance Descriptors
E-portfolio (example) • https://ctools.umich.edu/osp-presentation-tool/viewPresentation.osp?id=FBCE87A460F82326C06924DDEC20BF8F&sakai.tool.placement.id=1eb45969-13ef-4578-0070-ffe2f048955c