1. NACEP Standards and Assessment February 15, 2016
D. Kent Johnson, PhD
Director of Assessment

2. NACEP Standards for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
(A1) CEP students are held to the same standards of achievement as those expected of students in on campus sections.
(A2) The college/university ensures that CEP students are held to the same grading standards as those expected of students in on campus sections.
(A3) CEP students are assessed using the same methods (e.g., papers, portfolios, quizzes, labs, etc.) as students in on campus sections.

3. NACEP Standards for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
(C2) College/university courses administered through a CEP reflect the pedagogical, theoretical and philosophical orientation of the sponsoring college/university departments.

4. Challenges in Delivering Dual Enrollment Courses
Control of Course Delivery and Rigor
Differences in Calendar
Quality and Consistency of Evaluation
Differences in Grading Scales
Pedagogical Differences (but these exist across University Sections as well)

5. Strategies for Ensuring High Quality Courses
Syllabus design that includes clearly stated outcomes that define rigor in terms of student achievement, clearly defined learning activities, consistent in and out of class requirements, etc.
Embedded assessment strategies that provide opportunity for review of student achievement by IPFW faculty.
Process for reviewing assessment results and providing feedback through annually required faculty development activities.

6. Worksheet One: Defining Expected Level of Learning:
What do you expect students to know? (Knowledge)
What do you expect students to be able to do? (Skills)
Graduates of this program will
Graduates of this program will

7. Student Learning Outcomes:
Defining Expected Levels of Learning

8. Student Learning Outcomes Sample Action Verbs
Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create
Recognize
Interpret
Implement
Compare
Check
Design
List
Summarize
Carry Out
Organize
Hypothesize
Construct
Describe
Infer
Use
Deconstruct
Critique
Plan
Identify
Paraphrase
Execute
Attribute
Experiment
Produce
Retrieve
Classify
Outline
Judge
Invent
Name
Find
Test
Devise
Locate
Explain
Structure
Detect
Make
Integrate
Monitor

9. Worksheet Two Writing SLO’s and Designing an Embedded Assessment
List expected knowledge and skills developed in Exercise One
Assign the level of learning expected at graduation using action verbs from Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001, 2013)
Statement of Programmatic Student Learning Outcome
Upon Completion of the course, students will be able to (action verb(s) denoting level of learning) + (object describing what students should be able to produce).
Sample Statement: Upon completion of the course, students will describe (discipline specific concept)