1. A User-Friendly Approach to Streamlining the Collection and Analysis of SLO Evidence Dave Karp & Tom Vitzelio

2. Embedded Assessments

3. What is Embedded Assessment? Take place in a class or a group of classes Determines whether students are learning pre-established learning outcomes Take advantage of pre-existing student motivation to perform well Assess what is actually taught

4. Types of Course-Embedded Assessment Exams Research Papers and Projects Performances Field Experiences, Lab Reports and Internships Pre/Post Comparisons Student Portfolios Capstone Evaluations

5. Advantages of Embedded Assessment Student motivation is high because the assessment activity is part of a course activity Costs are reduced because incentives are unnecessary It usually does not require additional student time as it is part of the curriculum It is faculty-driven and thus, more likely, to be used for improvement Because it’s linked to the curriculum, it’s more likely to identify specific curricular needs/deficiencies Feedback to faculty is usually quick

6. Disadvantages of Embedded Assessment Faculty commitment is absolutely essential, but can be hard to get Faculty resistance to the process may be substantial Achieving agreement among faculty on an assessment approach across courses is a challenge Usually there are no comparable data

7. SLOs Assessment vs. Grades Identified Learning OutcomesStudent 1Student 2Student 3Student 4Student 5Learning Outcome Average Spelling341232.6 Grammar253253.4 Punctuation452343.6 Structure434533.8 TOTAL1317101215 Individual Student Grade:CADCB

8. An “All-Purpose” Rubric Form to Streamline SLO Assessments

9. Workshop Focus Our focus is on a tool that makes it easy to Grade a regular assignment, and Assess students’ performance on a course level SLO The tool is an “all purpose rubric” form developed by Chaffey’s Business department

10. Benefits of the Rubric Automates the grading process Provides a checklist Easily adjustable Can be distributed to students before and/or after collecting the assignment May be as simple or complex as the faculty member desires Quickly and easily enables the SLO assessment

11. Excel Terminology Worksheet An individual spreadsheet Workbook A collection of worksheets combined in a file Cell The intersection between a row and a column in a worksheet

12. May be Simple or Complex Examples

13. Preparing Your Rubric Open the All Purpose file Save it with a new name “Assignment 2 Grading and Assessment” Fill in line items Assign weighted values for each item Fill in the total points possible on the assignment

14. Preparing Your Rubric Make copies of the worksheet to fill in for each student in the class Type each student’s name in the worksheet tab The student’s name automatically appears on the worksheet Evaluate the students’ performances

15. The Assessment Once the grading (evaluation) is complete, the workbook contains all the data needed to conduct an assessment All you do is make a copy of the same rubric you used to grade the assignment The trick is Excel’s 3D Reference function

16. The Assessment Examples

17. How to Do a 3D Reference Make another copy of the blank worksheet Type “Assessment” into the Worksheet tab click in cell O4, which is the cell containing the score on the first item Type =AVERAGE(

18. How to Do a 3D Reference click on the tab for Student 1's worksheet – Then click in cell O4 Press down on the “Shift” key and while still holding it down, click on the tab for the last student worksheet

19. How to Do a 3D Reference Without going to a different sheet, click in the formula bar (the one labeled “fx” near the top of the page) You will notice that there is a formula there that reads something like this: =AVERAGE('Student 1:Student 5'!O4 Type a “)” at the end of the formula Click on the green check to the left of the formula bar (or press the “Enter” key)

20. How to Do a 3D Reference Go back to the Assessment worksheet Cell O4 contains the average of all the students’ scores for that line item! Copy the formula in cell O4 and paste it into all of the other cells in column O that correspond to one of the rubric’s line items

21. How to Do a 3D Reference Once done, you have a worksheet that shows: The class performance on each line item, and The overall average score on the assignment

22. The Assessment This worksheet now contains the class assessment on this project The only extra work required on top of the grading for the assignment was to spend a few minutes creating the Assessment worksheet Now, all you have to do is talk about the results with your colleagues!

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