Products / Reflections / … UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES? NW-PULSE @ NW Biology instructors Conference 2016 Mapping and covering Vision and Change Competencies University of Washington Department of Biology School Logo here Horacio de la Iglesia, Jennifer Doherty, Jennifer Ruesink and Ben Wiggins VISION – A strategy to assure training of biology students on Vision & Change Competencies MAIN GOAL– Based on discussions with our Faculty, to develop an online survey that maps the coverage of each Competency in our undergraduate curriculum Photos should be at least 300dpi, but not more than 5-12 mgs each. Your poster is set to be enlarged 200% so do not change the page size to fit another poster size. Posters (3’ x 4’) will be printed at WWU using the same purchase order at the same time. Please email your poster as a PPT file to by Joann Otto at WWU by April 20, 2015. Please contact Joann Otto (Joann.Otto@wwu.edu) with questions about poster printing. Also please put your institution “logo” on your poster. Please note that this template is provided to simplify your effort to prepare a poster for the NW Biology meeting. You can change the font size, colors, column widths, add photos, institutional logos, graphics, etc. This template can also be used as a starting point and you can be as creative as you want in your poster. However, we would like to have all of the posters the same size and we will be printed at the same time, at the same print shop in order to easily pay for printing with one purchase order. ACTIONS BARRIERS & CHALLENGES Products / Reflections / … Organize Faculty discussions to agree on Competencies—from ‘Vision and Change’ and other sources—to be covered in our curriculum. Define 4 competencies that align with Vision and Change. Design Faculty survey to assess competency coverage in each course taught Obtain Faculty time for discussions Agreeing on meaningful and implementable competencies for our Department Products: A set of 4 Competencies their sib competencies based on Faculty input Assessments: Developed on-line 15min/course survey to map competencies in the curriculum RESOURCES & ALLIES SUSTAINABILITY Expertise from Department staff, faculty and student on survey implementation On-line platforms for Survey implementation STRENGTHS & LEVERAGE We will implement our Competency Survey during spring 2016 Results will be analyzed by the UPC and a plan of action will be designed to cover uncovered items in each competency We are willing to share any of our materials with the PULSE community and we’d love to hear about similar efforts Our team developed the strategy as part of the activities of the Undergraduate Program Committee (UPC) at the UW Department of Biology, of witch we are members. This greatly facilitated our task and we are deeply thankful to the remaining members of the UPC. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES? FUTURE GOALS Vision and Change Competencies have become a discussion topic among the Biology faculty. Determine which competencies are well covered and reward people responsible for these courses. Detect gaps in competency coverage and implement curriculum changes to bridge them This work was supported in part by an NSF RCN UBE award # 1345033.