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Building a Culture of Assessment: Case Study of Johnson C. Smith University

Building a Culture of Assessment: Case Study of Johnson C. Smith University. Stephen C. Ehrmann, Ph.D. Director, The Flashlight Program and Vice President, The TLT Group. Thanks!. 120+ institutional subscribers to TLT Group services, including Johnson C. Smith EDUCAUSE/NLII, CNI and WSU

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Building a Culture of Assessment: Case Study of Johnson C. Smith University

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  1. Building a Culture of Assessment: Case Study of Johnson C. Smith University Stephen C. Ehrmann, Ph.D. Director, The Flashlight Program and Vice President, The TLT Group

  2. Thanks! • 120+ institutional subscribers to TLT Group services, including Johnson C. Smith • EDUCAUSE/NLII, CNI and WSU • TLT Group Founding Sponsors • Blackboard, Compaq, Microsoft, SCT, WebCT

  3. Johnson C. Smith- Background • HBCU (founded 1867) • 1500 students • Endowment $30M • First HBCU laptop university (2000) • US News Best Values - Ranked 2nd among comprehensive colleges in the South (2004)

  4. The Usual Pressures • Tight budgets • Accreditors such as SACS, NCATE, emphasizing the importance of using data to guide improvement

  5. Unusual Response • Leadership • President Dorothy Yancy • Coordinated, shared effort from Dir. of Information Services, Dir. of Faculty Development, Dir. Of IR, and others

  6. Support • Series of mini-grants for faculty • Required training in assessment (including Flashlight Online), doing assessment, and interpreting results in exchange for money • Faculty often had to work together, share data • Faculty lead the assessment training • Funds from UNCF, Bush, Hewlett…

  7. Persistence and Patience • 4 years of effort, with little to show in first year or two • Faculty often had to create 2-3 surveys before focusing enough to uncover useful findings.

  8. Results • Over half the faculty are doing studies regularly • Don Mager (English) learned how to improve his strategies for moderating student discussion • Sociology Dept is going to study changes in informal student interaction, community • Gene Hermitte (history) got useful feedback on his use of concept maps • Joe Turner, Maria Papanikolaou (English) are studying how their students develop information literacy

  9. Full Text • Case study on JCSU is on the web at http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/F_Eval_Cases/JCSU_Assess.htm

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