Educational Assessment Building Community Your Role in Campus-Wide Assessment Educational Assessment Where Why Who How When What

Educational assessment is an ongoing process designed to monitor and improve student learning.

Your Role in Assessment The goal of this session is to help you see the big picture of institutional-wide assessment of student learning and how you fit into that picture. Your contributions will help LBC assess how well we are accomplishing our mission, vision, and goals.

Educational Assessment Where Who What How When Why

What Where Who How When Why

What is Educational Assessment? Educational Assessment = an ongoing process designed to monitor and improve student learning Educational Assessment at LBC = To investigate whether LBC is accomplishing its mission, its goals, and its objectives campus-wide... & To maintain an ongoing process that will monitor and improve student learning, thus fulfilling to an even greater degree our mission statement, goals, and objectives.

Where Who What Why How When

Who is responsible for assessment? YOU are!

Who is responsible for assessment? I hate to be the one to tell you this, so I’ll let someone else do it . . . “Assessment is not a one-person enterprise.” [Mary Allen in Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education (2004), p. 158]

Who is responsible for assessment? Mary Allen continues by stating that: “A recurring theme in assessment is collaboration. Faculty work together to develop consensus on learning objectives, curriculum alignment, and assessment, and they collaborate to determine the implications of results” (p. 158).

Why Where Who What How When

Because MSA, ABHE, and PDE require it? Why do we do assessment? Because MSA, ABHE, and PDE require it? Yes, but that is not the only, nor the best reason to do so.

So, what is the BEST reason to do assessment? Why do we do assessment? So, what is the BEST reason to do assessment? Because it improves student learning!!! “Though accountability matters, learning still matters most.” Tom Angelo, 1999, May, Doing assessment as if learning matters most. ww.aahebulletin.com/public/archive/angelomay99.asp

Assessment is for the sake of our students. Why do we do assessment? Assessment is for the sake of our students. Our students deserve it!!

Who Where What How When Why

Where do we assess student learning? Academic Side Institutional Program Course Student Support Side Academic Support1 Student Success Enrollment Management Advancement 1 Library, Online Education, Ally Center, I.S.

ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Course Objectives ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Spiritual Formation Core Knowledge & Skills Mission Vision Core Values Institutional Goals General Education Course Objectives Course Objectives Biblical Education Core Knowledge & Skills ACADEMIC AFFAIRS SUPPORT STUDENT SERVICES Professional Education [Graduate Programs] Course Objectives 17

Where Who When What Why How

When does assessment occur? True or False Assessment only occurs every ten years when we start the self-study process. Assessment only occurs during final exam week. Assessment only occurs when I grade papers or tests. Assessment occurs every day.

How Where Who What Why When

How do we or can we assess student learning? In class Out of class

How do we or can we assess student learning? In class small group discussion tests quizzes projects online forums research papers Q&A homework assignments class discussion

How do we or can we assess student learning? internships sports teams SoJourn practicums office visits residence halls chapels mentoring dining hall Out of class eMerge

How do we document our assessment? Assessment Annotations Assessment Activity (briefly describe; attach additional documents as appropriate) In assessment of: Student Learning Outcome (course objective) #___ Program Objective #___ Bible & Theology Objective #___ EXAMPLE Arts & Sciences Objective #___ Information Literacy Goal #___ Core Knowledge & Skills #___ Results of Activity (briefly describe; attach additional documents as appropriate) Analysis of Results (briefly describe; attach additional documents as appropriate) Actions to be Taken based upon Analysis of Results (briefly describe; attach additional documents as appropriate)

Educational assessment is an ongoing process designed to monitor and improve student learning and YOU are a vital part of that process!!!

Assessment: An Ongoing Journey Assessment Resources for the journey Classroom Assessment Techniques www.msche.org Publications Guidelines for Institutional Improvement Student Learning Assessment www.lbc.edu About LBC – Institutional Effectiveness – Assessment – Faculty Resources http://effectiveness.lbc.edu/faculty-resources/

Your Role in Campus-Wide Assessment Building Community Your Role in Campus-Wide Assessment