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IAS has and will continue to conduct work sessions on assessment. If
you have suggestions for a future work session, contact IAS by email
or phone (4-3417). Below are descriptions of scheduled work sessions (if
applicable) and past work sessions, including presentations and materials.
Links to workshops conducted by the Teaching
Resource Center, which are helpful with assessing or improving student
learning, are also listed.
Upcoming
Work Sessions
No workshops are currently scheduled
Past Work
Sessions
Friday, March
28, 2008
Assessment Planning for Program Review
Meeting Agenda (.pdf)
Support for Assessment and Program Review (.pdf)
Assessment Reporting for Program Review (.pdf)
Mock Assessment Report Example (.pdf)
Potential Assessment Tool (.pdf)
Case Studies (.pdf)
Online Resources:
September 7th workshop
Program Review: Assessment Reporting Outline
Program Review Schedule
Description: This session acquainted participants with the assessment requirements of Program Review. It also provided participants a look into the assessments of several programs who have begun implementing their assessment plans. A potential assessment tool was also previewed.
Friday, January
25, 2008
Assessment in Graduate Programs
Assessing Student Learning in Graduate Programs (.pdf)
Indirect Assessment Approaches (.pdf)
Direct Assessment Approaches (.pdf)
Comprehensive Assessment Approaches (.pdf)
Graphic: How Grades Can Inform Assessment (.pdf)
Software Tools (.pdf)
Description: This session focused on direct and indirect approaches, including student self-reflection, and the use of rubrics in assessing comprehensive exams, research proposals, etc. Assessment of student learning at the graduate level presents unique challenges: students’ courses of study are idiosyncratic; learning is highly complex and contextual within disciplines; and many graduate programs are small, making quantitative analysis problematic. A software tool that facilitates use of rubrics for grading was previewed.
Friday, October
19, 2007
Assessment of Programs in Humanities and Fine Arts
Qualitative Assessment (MS Word)
Assessment with Web Software (MS Powerpoint)
Online Resources:
Teaching Resource Center: Grading with Rubrics
Description: This session focused on assessment techniques useful for departments in the Humanities and Fine Arts. It discussed the challenges of assessing student learning in these disciplines and presented some strategies for overcoming these challenges. Techniques for creating rubrics and using web-based survey software to enter and analyze rubric results was also presented.
Friday, September
7, 2007
Assessment Planning for Program Review
Reporting on Your Assessments through Program Review (MS Powerpoint)
Keys to Successful Initial Assessment (MS Powerpoint)
Mock Assessment Report Example (MS Word)
Online Resources:
Program Review: Assessment Reporting Outline
Program Review Schedule
Description: This session acquainted participants with the assessment requirements of Program Review. It discussed scenarios that programs may encounter as they implement their assessment plan, and offered advice about how to proceed if these situations occur.
Friday, May
4, 2007
Gathering, organizing, and analyzing assessment data
List of
Attendees (MS Word)
Summary of
Proceedings (MS Word)
Program
Review Reporting (MS Word)
Suggested
Schedule for Assessments (MS Word)
Ten
Steps to Analyzing Your Results (MS Word)
Data
Entry Analysis Helper (MS Excel)
Description: This session gave participants an opportunity
to share experiences, questions, and practical advice about implementing
assessments; information on basic analysis steps and tools was provided
as well.
Feb. 2, 2007
The "Nuts and Bolts" of Implementing Your Assessment Plan: Using
existing tools for assessment, creating rubrics, gathering data
(MS Powerpoint)
Work session
Handouts (pdf)
Description: This
presentation briefly reviewed assessment reporting requirements and the
next steps for implementing a learning outcomes assessment plan. It
outlines things to think about when implementing an assessment plan,
including methods used to define and measure learning outcomes and the
management of assessment data.
Jan. 17,
2006
Assessing Student Learning Outcomes at UVa II
(MS Powerpoint)
Description: This
presentation describes what assessment is and why we assess student
learning. It details the necessary steps for developing an assessment
plan, including the creation of learning outcomes and measures. It cautions
against the use of grades as an assessment measure and explains what
tools can be used to assess student learning.
Dec. 14,
2005
Assessing Student Learning Outcomes at UVa I
(MS Powerpoint)
Description: This
presentation provides an overview of assessment and the driving forces
behind it. It highlights the components of a learning outcome and outlines
how learning outcomes are created and evaluated.
Workshops
by the Teaching Resource Center
The Teaching Resource Center offers many workshops, some of which focus
on classroom assessment techniques designed to help individual instructors
gauge student learning throughout the semester. All TRC services are voluntary
and confidential.
Teaching
workshops offered by TRC.
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