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Using the AAC&U VALUE Rubrics for Student Learning Outcomes Assessment & Accountability Reporting

Using the AAC&U VALUE Rubrics for Student Learning Outcomes Assessment & Accountability Reporting. Christine Keller VSA Executive Director Teri Lyn Hinds VSA Associate Director Paul Klute University of Kansas. Higher Learning Commission Annual Conference Chicago, IL ▪ April 8, 2013.

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Using the AAC&U VALUE Rubrics for Student Learning Outcomes Assessment & Accountability Reporting

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  1. Using the AAC&U VALUE Rubrics for Student Learning Outcomes Assessment & Accountability Reporting Christine Keller VSA Executive Director Teri Lyn Hinds VSA Associate Director Paul Klute University of Kansas Higher Learning Commission Annual Conference Chicago, IL ▪ April 8, 2013

  2. Presentation Outline Why campus-level student learning outcomes evaluation and reporting is necessary University of Kansas’s experience implementing the AAC&U VALUE Rubrics campus-wide VSA College Portrait template for reporting results for accountability

  3. Voluntary System of Accountability • Initiative launched in 2007 by public universities • Supply straightforward, comparable information on the undergraduate student experience through a common web report – the College Portrait. www.collegeportraits.org • Support innovation in the measurement and reporting of student learning outcomes

  4. The Heat is On • Unprecedented public challenges for higher education to be more accountable for results. • Accompanying external demands for information about student and institutional performance are growing calls for institutions and accreditors to become more transparent about what they do and the results they achieve. (Ewell, 2010)

  5. Pressure to Evolve The culture of college needs to evolve, particularly with regard to “perverse institutional incentives” that reward colleges for enrolling and retaining students rather than for educating them. Quote from Richard Arum in “Academically Adrift”, 18 January 2011, Inside Higher Ed

  6. University of Kansas • Introduced to the campus community fall 2011 • Kansas Board of Regents began talks about learner outcomes • Reacting to feedback from HLC regarding improving assessment practices • Capitalizing on small scale assessment work being done in CTE

  7. Fall 2011 • Undergraduate Written Communication Learner Outcomes • AAC&U Value Rubrics provided to departments to start the discussion • 60% of departments used the AAC&U Value Rubric with no changes • 95% of all UG departments participated • 90% response rate (student-level assessments)

  8. KU’s Process • Making it easy for departments to participate

  9. KU’s Process • Assessment Workshops • Primary and Secondary Readers • Undergraduate coordinators • Department Chairs • Explanation of the process • Calibration exercise • Sharing of best practices • Discussion about using the data

  10. KU’s Process

  11. KU’s Process

  12. Training the Readers • Provost’s Office • Provided process information – timeline, payment info, technical questions • Center for Teaching Excellence • Calibration exercises for primary and secondary readers • Workshops for departments on using the LO data • Explained the difference between grading and assessment (and how 1 assignment can be used for both)

  13. Assignment • A local paper published an article featuring a scientist’s alternative to global warming (a decline in sunspots). • By the end of this assignment you should have practice at: 1) critiquing such journalistic presentations of science; 2) researching credible information that can be brought to bear when discussing a specific claim made in the media; 3) synthesizing that information to make a coherent argument based on reliable evidence.

  14. AAC&U Value Rubric – Written Communication

  15. AAC&U Value Rubric – Written Communication

  16. VSA May 2012 Board Decisions College Portrait re-focus from “college selection tool” to “consumer information tool to demonstrate effectiveness of educational programs” Student Learning Outcome Instrument options: CAAP, CLA, ETS Proficiency Profile AAC&U VALUE rubrics – critical thinking, written communication

  17. VSA Reporting Template • Common template for all 8 SLO options • Institutional context and use of results gets precedence • Five questions on administration experience • Sample characteristics compared to population characteristics • Institutions encouraged to keep explanations brief • Display of results is graphical, can include subscale results

  18. College Portrait website: www.collegeportraits.org Reports & Presentations: www.voluntarysystem.org Twitter:@VSAvoice Blog: http://vsavoice.blogspot.com/

  19. More Information Paul Klute, University of Kansas pklute@ku.edu Christine Keller, VSA Executive Director ckeller@aplu.org Teri Hinds, VSA Associate Director thinds@aplu.org

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