1. Products / Reflections / … UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES?
NW Biology instructors Conference 2016
Data Driven Change
Lower Columbia College
Lucas Myers, Katrina Fuller, & Rhonda Meyers
VISION – Use Canvas Learning Management System to collect course, department, and institutional level assessment data to provide insight into student success and inform teaching practices.
MAIN GOAL– Implement newly revised course level outcomes into Canvas and begin collecting assessment data in a few biology courses (Ex: BIOL& 160 General Biology).
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 your poster as a PPT file to by Joann Otto at WWU by April 1, Please contact Joann Otto 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 / …
Revised Program and Course level outcomes.
Worked with eLearning to input outcomes into Canvas.
Collected assessment data in courses using Canvas mastery gradebooks.
Involved other faculty in process.
Time needed for outcome revision and input into Canvas (LMS).
Outcomes cannot be easily updated in Canvas
Unexpected outcome data calculation in Canvas.
Overall, data shows students are achieving program and course outcomes.
Individual data demonstrates areas of strength and weakness in student success in the classroom.
Indicates a need for more attention to or better assessment of some outcomes.
RESOURCES & ALLIES
STRENGTHS & LEVERAGE
SUSTAINABILITY
eLearning Department – Input course outcomes for use in Canvas courses.
Natural Science Department – Improve communication and collective vision.
Dean – Support innovation and reform.
Canvas – Provide free, accessible, in-depth course data.
Continue to collect assessment data within canvas.
Use outcomes data to inform instructional practices and student retention.
Collaborate as a department on outcome level data and instructional practices.
Adjust Canvas Outcomes calculations methods.
Our team is active in using Canvas and program assessment.
We were able to communicate effectively with allies due to our collaborations on campus.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES?
The use of outcomes based grading in biology courses (Myers, BIOL&160) resulted in unexpected weighted calculations
FUTURE GOALS
Implement Canvas assessment data across department.
Implement V&C Competencies across dept.
This work was supported in part by an NSF RCN UBE award #