Student Learning and Core Institutional Values

1. Student Learning and Core Institutional Values David Sill Laura Strand Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

2. What can we assess?vs.What should we assess? • Confidence in assessing skills and content • What about assessing the ineffable? • Core values? • High school vs. college? • Lower division vs. upper division? • Integrated learning?

3. SIUE’sShared Values • Citizenship• Social, civic and political responsibility, globally, nationally, locally, and within the University  •Active partnerships and a climate of collaboration and cooperation among faculty, staff, students and the larger community  • Environmental stewardship • Excellence• High quality student learning • Continuous improvement and innovation • Outstanding scholarship and public service • Standards consonant with the premier status to which we aspire • Integrity• Accountability to those we serve and from whom we receive support  • Honesty in our communications and in our actions  • Openness • Inclusion of the rich diversity of humankind in all aspects of university life  • Respect for individual differences • Intellectual freedom and diversity of thought  • Access for all who can benefit from our programs  • Wisdom• Creation, preservation, and sharing of knowledge  • Application of knowledge in a manner that promotes the common good  • Life-long learning

4. Statement of Objectives for the Baccalaureate Degree • Include broad and ambitious objectives: • intellectual development • contributions to society • well-informed, effective citizens • leadership • self-reflection and self-assessment • life-long learning • events of the world in broad perspective • reasoned approach to challenges

5. To achieve these purposes, the University seeks to impart the following abilities and knowledge to its students through their general education and study in their academic majors and minors: • Analytic, Problem-solving, and Decision-making Skills • Oral and Written Communication Skills • Foundation in Liberal Arts and Sciences • Value of Diversity • Scientific Literacy • Ethics • Preparation in an Academic or Professional Discipline Value of Diversity

6. Statement of Objectives for the Baccalaureate Degree • Value of DiversityAll students will gain an understanding of the traditions that influence American culture and of the traditions of other cultures in order to develop a respect for and a sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity. Students will gain a deeper understanding of global interdependence.

7. Statement of Objectives for the Baccalaureate Degree • Value of DiversityAll students will gain an understanding of the traditions that influence American culture and of the traditions of other cultures in order to develop a respect for and a sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity. Students will gain a deeper understanding of global interdependence.

8. What will tests or surveys tell us about: sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity ?

9. What will tests or surveys tell us about: understanding of global interdependence ?

10. Common means for assessing student learning? Self reports.

11. Common means for assessing student learning? Standardized tests. • National Tests • Uses of ACT's CAAP.htm • ACT's CAAP Tests.htm ReadingWriting SkillsWriting EssayMathematicsScienceCritical Thinking What does CAAP assess?

12. Group 1—Write a test question that assesses understanding of global interdependence Group 2—Write a survey question that assesses sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity

13. Senior Assignment (SRA) • Graduation Requirement • Academic simulator • Goes beyond classroom • Students produce products that make learning visible and assessable • Student learning becomes public • Makes visible learning in the discipline and the broader baccalaureate objectives.

14. Study with Indigenous Craftspeople in rural Mexico Hondencia weaving

15. Mexica Project Faculty : Prof Paul Dresang, Ceramics Assoc. Prof. Laura Strand, Textiles 5 Trips in 10 years 118 students

17. Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca

21. Mixtec Potters walking to market

22. Curandero with natural Medicines at the Saturday Market.

23. Feli Felipe and Rosailia at their home outside of Nu’u 10 miles from Tlaxiaco

24. Felipe Reyes, Mixtec potter, farmer, Mayor of his local township father of 6, grandfather of 4 Felipe

31. Erin and Lucia, 2002

35. Rosalia helps Jennifer, 1996

40. Mexica 2000 Exhibition

49. Mexica ‘98 The Mountains of Mexico tower above the small town of Tlaxiaco. The valley a bowl contains a smorgasbord of people, dialects, beliefs, and colors. The people are poor, but richer than many of us. The language of many dialects becomes one voice. The same beliefs their ancestors had for hundreds of years. The color of the people, their clothing, their homes, and the surrounding landscapes. This piece represents all of these things as well as the spirituality and beauty of Mexico.Karen Appel

50. Images flew by as quickly as my time in Mexico. From the ruins at Mitla and Monte Alban to the pottery I was witness to, the images piled up in my mind. They merged to create a strange juxtaposition, which formed into a single image. In this piece, I attempted to convey these feelings by playing with the placement and over lapping of images. I wanted the viewer to see, if only in a small way, how images bombard you in such a small amount of time.Jonathan Brumfield "Deluge"     8" x 11"    lithograph