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Flow, Flexibility and Student Outcomes

This instructional development service explores strategies for adapting course content, assessments, and communication to accommodate student needs and varying circumstances. Discover how to identify essential competencies, choose authentic assessment options, and leverage technology for effective student communication.

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Flow, Flexibility and Student Outcomes

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  1. LeAne Rutherford and Shelley SmithInstructional Development Service Flow, Flexibility and Student Outcomes

  2. Agenda • Rethinking Your Courses: Adaptability, Flexibility and Flow • Identifying Essential Course Competencies • Identify Authentic Assessment Options • Course Communication • Final Thoughts

  3. Impact on Your Courses • Student illness and variable attendance • Potential Faculty Illness • Increased need for assignment, testing, and course communication flexibility • Accomplishing all this without disrupting the course flow or “bottom-line” competencies

  4. Identify Important Course Competencies?

  5. Course Competencies/Outcomes • Plan SMART: • Specific • Measurable • Attainable • Results-oriented • Time-bound

  6. Competency/Outcomes Examples • Business Principles of Management: Identify and integrate methods of organizational structure and the related topics of division of labor, authority/responsibility, span of control, centralization/decentralization, delegation, organizational change, staffing, and diversity within the workforce. • Chemistry 1: Name and write formulas for inorganic compounds

  7. Adapting Learning Assessments?

  8. Adapting Assessments Think about: • Focus on Adaptability and Flexibility • More frequent testing (option to discard one)‏ • Alternative testing methods • Variety of assignments to achieve single objective • Adapting different learning technologies

  9. Assessment Variations • Qualitative • Quantitative • Direct • Indirect • Application • Declarative…

  10. Direct Methods: • Samples of individual student work • Pre-test and post-test evaluations • Standardized tests • Performance on licensure exams • Blind scored essay tests • Internal or external juried review of student work • Case study/problems • Capstone papers, projects or presentations • Project or course-imbedded assessment • Documented observation and analysis of student behavior/performance • Externally reviewed internship or practicum • ePortfolio • Activity logs • Performances • Interviews (including videotaped)‏

  11. Examples • Management: Graded Practical Exercise “Who Goes Abroad Management Team Decision” (20 points, covering topics of organizational structure). • Chemistry: Laboratory Experiment—Inorganic nomenclature (40 pts.) • How could these be done electronically?

  12. Student Communication

  13. Student Communication • What do you do now? • What if F2F is not an option for all students? • What are your electronic options? • Email • Course alias • CMS mail and news options

  14. Final Considerations • Know what’s Important • Evaluate your comfort level • Identify support systems • ITSS (electronic options)‏ • IDS (Curriculum flexibility)‏

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