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

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

3. 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.

4. Educational Assessment
Where
Who
What
How
When
Why

5. What
Where
Who
How
When
Why

6. 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...
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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.

7. Where
Who
What
Why
How
When

8. Who is responsible for assessment?
YOU
are!

9. 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]

10. 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).

11. Why
Where
Who
What
How
When

12. 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.

13. 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

14. 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!!

15. Who
Where
What
How
When
Why

16. 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.

17. 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

18. Where
Who
When
What
Why
How

19. 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.

20. How
Where
Who
What
Why
When

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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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)

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

27. Assessment: An Ongoing Journey
Assessment Resources for the journey
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Publications
Guidelines for Institutional Improvement
Student Learning Assessment
About LBC – Institutional Effectiveness – Assessment – Faculty Resources

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