Bainbridge College Institutional Effectiveness

1. Bainbridge College Institutional Effectiveness

2. Assessment for Technical ProgramsSeptember 2012Ruth Salter, Ph.D.Director of Institutional Effectiveness135 Mobley Administration Buildingruth.salter@bainbridge.edu243-6450

3. What is Assessment? Academic Assessment is the systematic and ongoing method of gathering, analyzing and using information from measured outcomes to improve student learning. Academic assessment involves five tasks: • Identify student learning outcomes • Define where outcomes are achieved • Determine how to find out to what degree outcomes are achieved • Gather evidence of achievement • Improve programs based on the evidence

4. Identify Student Learning Outcomes • Use Results • Curriculum Mapping • Gather Evidence • Methods of Assessment

5. What’s the point?

6. It’s kind of like paying taxes. The Feds make us do it…

7. Continuous quality improvement makes us who we are! Bainbridge College, a two-year institution of the University System of Georgia, promotes an accessible, affordable, and excellent education for the diverse population of southwest Georgia and beyond through transfer degrees, technical degrees, diplomas and certificates, continuing education courses, public service opportunities, and collaboration with other educational providers, resulting in life long learning, economic development, and graduates empowered for success in a global society.

8. Comprehensive Standards 3.3.1: Institutional Effectiveness The institution identifies expected outcomes, assesses the extent to which it achieves these outcomes, and provides evidence of improvement based on the results in each of the following areas: 3.3.1.1 educational programs, to include student learning outcomes 3.3.1.2 administrative support programs 3.3.1.3 academic and student support services 3.3.1.4 research within its mission, if appropriate 3.3.1.5 community/public service within its mission, if appropriate Source: 2012 Principles of Accreditation, page 27

9. Assessment • What does “good” look like? • How “good” are you? • What can you change to get “good” and then become better?

10. All purpose assessment loop

11. Identify Student Learning Outcomes Academic assessment loop • Use Results • Curriculum Mapping • Gather Evidence • Methods of Assessment

12. “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” Source: Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

13. Continuous Improvement of Student Learning

14. Document Evidence

15. Assessment Made Easy

16. Comprehensive Standards 3.3.1: Institutional Effectiveness The institution identifies expected outcomes, assesses the extent to which it achieves these outcomes, and provides evidence of improvement based on the results in each of the following areas: 3.3.1.1 educational programs, to include student learning outcomes

17. Step 1: Define Programs A progression of courses that lead to a certificate or degree

22. Defining the program had to be done before moving on the defining outcomes

23. Identify Student Learning Outcomes Academic assessment loop • Use Results • Curriculum Mapping • Gather Evidence • Methods of Assessment

24. Today Each certificate or degree program has common HSPS learning outcomes

25. Tomorrow Each certificate or degree program has its own set of common learning outcomes

26. Learning Outcomes “goals that describe how students will be different because of a learning experience. More specifically, learning outcomes are the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and habits of mind that students take with them from a learning experience.” Suskie, 2009, p. 117

27. Technical Studies Learning Outcomes • Students will demonstrate professionalism appropriate to their program • Students will demonstrate communication skills appropriate to their program • Students will demonstrate analytical problem solving skills appropriate to their program • Students will demonstrate the specialized knowledge and skills necessary for career placement

28. Identify Student Learning Outcomes Academic assessment loop • Use Results • Curriculum Mapping • Gather Evidence • Methods of Assessment

29. Technical Studies Curriculum Mapping • List the courses in your program in a grid with the courses down the side and your outcomes across the top

30. Example of Embedded Curriculum Maps

31. Mapping in Action

32. Document Evidence

33. Go Forth and Map!

34. Thank you for your time Ruth Salter, Ph.D.Director of Institutional Effectiveness135 Mobley Administration Buildingruth.salter@bainbridge.edu243-6450