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Assessment that P romotes the Outcomes of Liberal Arts Colleges

Assessment that P romotes the Outcomes of Liberal Arts Colleges. NEASC Annual Meeting and Conference Helen Giles-Gee, President Keene State College. The Essential Learning Outcomes. Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World Personal and Social Responsibility

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Assessment that P romotes the Outcomes of Liberal Arts Colleges

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  1. Assessment that Promotes the Outcomes of Liberal Arts Colleges NEASC Annual Meeting and Conference Helen Giles-Gee, President Keene State College

  2. The Essential Learning Outcomes Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World Personal and Social Responsibility Integrative and Applied Learning http://www.aacu.org/leap/documents/EssentialOutcomes_Chart.pdf

  3. Intellectual and Practical Skills • Inquiry and analysis • Critical and creative thinking • Written and oral communication • Quantitative literacy • Information literacy • Teamwork and problem solving http://www.aacu.org/leap/documents/EssentialOutcomes_Chart.pdf

  4. Assessment Beginnings • Check the content validity of the Curriculum across programs and over time • Determine the current status of faculty evaluations of student work • Consider other institutional assessments such as National Survey of Student Engagement , Admitted student and graduating student surveys

  5. Goal 1: Enhance and Become Recognized by the Quality of our Academic Programs Benchmarks (NSSE): Level of Academic Challenge

  6. Assessment Beginnings KSC Integrative Studies Program Assessment Process • ISP Assessment Committee • All students are required to submit work to Blackboard sites for Program Assessment • Random selection of student artifacts • Interdisciplinary teams participate in norming session/ assess 20 artifacts each at $30/hr

  7. Assessment Beginnings Some Initial Challenges • Not all faculty had students submit work • Not all faculty expectations about learning clear • Assignment alignment with outcomes may indicate lack of appropriate learning experiences that allow students to practice skill development with feedback from faculty • Initial competencies were global and are now being revised to reflect lower and upper level

  8. Assessment Beginnings Select Outcomes of lower level ISP: Integrative Thinking and Writing: • Used in-text references to sources (73%) • Incorporated 3 or more scholarly references in a research paper (38%) Integrative Quantitative Literacy • Learned more about the process and needs for improvement (Rancourt, 2011)

  9. Source of Assessment Tools VALUE PROJECT (AAC&U) http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/index_p.cfm?CFID=10181299&CFTOKEN=55963196 Rhodes, Terrel, ed. 2010. Assessing Outcomes and Improving Achievement: Tips and Tools for Using Rubrics. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities.

  10. Assessment Tool TK20 A web-based management system that supports • Information management • Service delivery • Accreditation • Program improvement (Treadwell, 2011)

  11. Assessment Tool TK20: Why choose this tool? • Digital storage • Easy and efficient communication • Competency-based assessment • Electronic portfolio (Treadwell, 2011)

  12. KSC’s Market Positioning Value Cost

  13. A map to achievement “Over time, we will celebrate as a College community that has collectively taken the deliberate steps necessary to achieve our vision of academic and civic excellence” (Transformation: A Strategic Plan for Keene State College, 2005-2009)

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