1. Residence Life and First Year Experience
Assessment Toolkit Presentation
Braylon Junior
Keenan Jones
Nick Jewell
Jess Hamrick

2. Overview of Topic
Residence Life is a functional area in student affairs that strives to build a community for students who live on campus. Through programs, academic support and outcomes, and personal development initiatives, Residence Life hope to be a part of the feeling of comfortability for first year students.

3. First Year Experience Living Learning Communities (LLC)
Residence Halls which mainly consist of First Years

4. Types of Assessment for Residence Life
Community Assessment Do first year students feel connected? Do they feel like they belong on campus? Program Assessment Do programs fit the outcome that is desired? What can be improved or changed? Academic Achievement Assessment Do first-year students who live on-campus perform better academically?

5. Community Assessment : Sociogram
Sociograms
Graphic representation of social links between a population of people
Communication
Social Choices
Relations

6. Sociogram & Residence Life
What do sociograms provide for Resident Life Employees?
Social Dynamic Overview
Similar Characteristics
Community Leaders
Reliable Emergency Assistants
Trustworthy People

7. Sociogram Critiques What are some drawbacks to sociograms? Time
Inconsistent behavior patterns

8. Community Assessment: Ball State
Ball State uses sociograms the first semester of each academic year to assess the community of the residence hall
A semester long project that spans from August - November
Discusses resident facts, community engagement, and the characteristics of each resident
Also includes resident interactions such as friends and roommate conflicts

9. Sociogram Example

10. Program Assessment: SWOT
SWOT Analysis is a useful technique for understanding your Strengths and Weaknesses, and for identifying both the Opportunities open to you and the Threats you face.

12. Academic Achievement Assessment: Map-Works
Map-works is a student retention and success system that focuses on uniting academics and the residential experience.
Map-Works works to gauge the risk of a student not being retained and it measures it in multiple ways.
Connectedness to class
Connectedness to the university
Success in class
After Map-Works determines at risk students it allows for administration to set up protocol and resource delimitation to engage that student and help them connect.
There are several levels of interaction that can exist within Residence Life
RA interaction and conversations
Programs and events
HD interaction and conversation

14. Map-Works at the University of Arkansas

15. Pro's and Cons To Map-Works
Tracks a very real threat to First Year students
Connects several partners to the success of students that live on campus
Gives trackable data of student interactions
Supplies needed assessment data for departments to make decision.
Focuses pretty heavily on first year experience when there are other factors that could lead to retention issues
Pulls in several partners that may have wavering and differing idea on the data's usefulness
So much room for error, the system isn't intuitive enough

16. National Residence Life Assessment
Partnership between ACUHO-I and EBI-Map Works
Utilizes the CAS Standards and ACUHO-I core competencies as a "measuring stick" for Residence Life offices around the world
The assessment tool utilizes input from both residents and resident assistants

17. Resources
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MapWorks Diagram [Online Image]. Retrieved April 14, 2016, from
MapWorks Process [Online Image]. Retrieved April 14, 2016, from
Resident Assistant Manual. (n.d.). Retrieved April 14, 2016, from Assistant Manual pdf
SWOT Picture [Online Image]. Retrieved April 14, 2016 from hUKEwiR9uKVvY7MAhWFth4KHWP6C_0Q_AUIBygB&biw=1280&bih=923#tbm=isch&q=swot&i mgrc=dakMaa9vqXN-3M%3A
SWOT Anaylsis Diagram [Online Image]. Retrieved April 14, 2016 from park/resource/images/solutions/swot_analysis/Strategy-management-diagram-SWOT- Analysis-Matrix-Template-Horizontal.png