Everything You Wanted to Know About FYS Assessment The simple, uncluttered version Erika Prager University Assessment Specialist October 21 and 22, 2015

3 Simple Things 1. How the assessment pieces fit together 2. More about the FYS pilot project on assessment 3. Tools for your WyoCourse shell

Understanding the Moving Parts of Assessment HLC Accreditation USP 2015 Assessment FYS Quality Initiative Project Improving your FYS course

USP 2015 Assessment Process 3 Year Cycle Plus 1 FYS assessment PILOT PROJECT (Critical and Creative Thinking SLOs) 2 FYS, H, PN (Critical and Creative Thinking SLOs), H, PN, and COM1 SLOs 3 COM2, COM3, Q, and V SLOs 4+ Figure out how to assess Personal and Social Responsibility Outcomes

Digging into the Details FYS Assessment Pilot Project Changing the way we do USP assessment Individual assessment vs. group assessment process Paper vs. online system Data vs. actionable results and feedback

More Details Inventory of what’s going on in FYS courses FYS Assessment Pilot Project Inventory of what’s going on in FYS courses Mapping SLOs to assignments Understanding the significant project and the research process Using WyoCourses to collect student work and assignments Testing out our draft critical and creative thinking rubric Testing out a group process to review student work and using WyoCourses to facilitate this process

From the FYS Instructor Survey The First Step to Knowing What We Have About your FYS courses 76% include participation as part of grade (median % = 10%) 90% using WyoCourses (59% using extensively, 31% occasionally) # of assignments – median 10, average 11.5 Wide range of assignments in FYS courses Research papers, reflective papers, other papers, group projects, group presentations, annotated bibliographies, library research/citation exercises/library modules, exams and quizzes, case studies, letter writing, debates, service learning/community engagement projects, interviews, speech, poster, video, blog, lab exercise, group-led discussion, resume, magazine cover, budget exercise, threaded discussion analysis, personal leadership philosophy, autobiography, etc. etc.

Distribution of SLOs Preliminary analysis = We’ve got them covered. Major Project 17% 16% Assign 2 18% 15% Assign 3 13% 14% Assign 4 Assign 5 Assign 6 20%

Volunteers for the Actual Assessment Project 17 volunteers to submit student work (22 others “maybe”) 15 volunteers to score (21 others “maybe”) We need 5 to 8 more volunteers to submit student work We need 5 more volunteers to score

WyoCourses Tools for You Things you can use in your class You can import the 6 student learning outcomes into your WyoCourse shell Embed SLOs into your assignments so students see the link between the SLOs and the work they will do in the course You can attach an already created rubric to your assignments Use as is and test it out Amend rubric to fit an assignment

For More Information Erika Prager University Assessment Specialist ekprager@uwyo.edu Meg Flannigan Skinner First-Year Seminar Coordinator mjf@uwyo.edu