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

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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%

9. 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

10. 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

11. For More Information
Erika Prager University Assessment Specialist Meg Flannigan Skinner First-Year Seminar Coordinator