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Maximizing the Use of IDEA: Faculty Evaluation and Beyond! IDEA Users Group Meeting. Deb Carlson, PhD, Mary Lee Lusby, PhD, Ginny Russell Curley, PhD Nebraska Methodist College. NMC and IDEA. Relationship began in 2003 Faculty and course performance
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Maximizing the Use of IDEA: Faculty Evaluation and Beyond!IDEA Users Group Meeting Deb Carlson, PhD, Mary Lee Lusby, PhD, Ginny Russell Curley, PhD Nebraska Methodist College
NMC and IDEA Relationship began in 2003 Faculty and course performance A few faculty attended an IDEA users meeting Improve student learning A few more faculty attended an IDEA users meeting Improve teaching Sponsored an IDEA workshop on campus Use of IDEA for college-wide assessment
New Core Curriculum 2006 Reflective Individual Effective Communicator Change Agent
General Education Distribution Areas • Communication • Humanities • Natural and Applied Sciences • Social Sciences
General Education • Courses created to meet Educated Citizen objectives • Objectives met in more than one course • Full-time = 12 • Adjunct = 22
Developing Specificity Handout page 3
Match Teaching Methods to Learning Objectives Aggregate of page 3 on diagnostic report form across multiple courses Handout page 4
Lessons Learned • Reminders are needed to ensure consistency of FIF objective selection • Pick specific benchmarks • Value for small college to create dialogue around progress on shared outcomes
Future Plans • Assess Educated Citizen outcomes across the curriculum • Triangulate with other assessments such as the SSI, NSSE and program outcomes