Save the Date - April 9, 2024 - Assurance of Student Learning Day
Presented by the Committee for the Assurance of Student Learning (CASL)
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Faculty Excellence
Hear about 2023 Program Assessment grant projects from your colleagues.
Program Agenda
1:30pm: Opening Remarks (from CASL Chair Junfeng Wang)
1:35pm: UIS Degree Program Review and Assessment Grant Project Reports
3:15pm: Refreshment Break
3:25pm: Panel Discussion: Spotlight on Assessment at UIS
Moderator: Dr. Carrie Allen, Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment
Panelists: Dr. Nancy Barrett, School of Education Assessment and Accreditation Coordinator
Dr. Beth Hatt, Director, School of Education
Sarah Collins, Writing Coordinator for CASA
This moderated discussion will provide an overview of the assessment activities currently underway in several areas of UIS. Panelists will discuss their experiences with assessment, lessons they have learned, and advice for faculty who are taking on this work.
4:25pm: Closing Remarks (Junfeng Wang)
UIS Degree Program Review and Assessment Grant
Project Descriptions
Tiffany Nielson and Tim Hakenewerth, Department of Counseling and Social Work
The counseling program proposed and completed an overhaul of their programmatic assessment. Guided by their accreditation body, CACREP, they reviewed and refined their comprehensive assessment of student demographics, student learning outcomes, and faculty and supervisor performance.
Donna Bussell, Department of English
The English department concluded a long-term project centered on the learning outcomes for our major through assessing student work portfolios created as part of our capstone course, and will report our findings and plans for curriculum revisions.
Beth Ribarsky, School of Communication and Media
Through this analysis of pre-/post-test assessment of the general education oral communication course, this program review examined a reduction in public speaking anxiety, an increase in knowledge of core course concepts, and meeting of learning outcomes among the teaching modalities.
Rick Funderburg and Junfeng Wang, School of Public Management and Policy
This project developed assessment instruments and a process for evaluating MPA student abilities to collect, analyze, and interpret data and for measuring the adoption of technology within Illinois government agencies where students work.
Lynn Fisher, Sociology/Anthropology Department
SOA faculty representing disciplines of Sociology and Anthropology are evaluating and revising a rubric used to assess student work in our capstone course. The goal is to define expectations for student work more clearly, and to provide a methodology for consistently evaluating student work in the capstone on a year-to-year basis.
