1. Melanie DiLoreto

2.  Planning Committee ◦ Spring 2008 – Summer 2008 ◦ Internal & External Stakeholders – CAS, PCL, SoE, Academic Affairs, Supervising Teachers, Faculty & Administrators ◦ Reviewed 3 systems - Interviewed several institutional representatives across nation  face-to-face visit with one institution ◦ SoE adopted Fall 2008; Educational Leadership Spring 2009 ◦ Course Based Assessments – Courses common across programs that meet accreditation recommendations

3. In Tk20, students can complete applications for both program admission and field experiences/student teaching. Benefits:  Accuracy  Decreased Paper Trail  Reporting Ability

4. Benefits:  Program Improvement Collect assessments used by candidates and clinical faculty to determine areas that need improvement Identify points at which students are dropping out of the program Systematically study changes to ensure that program improvement is occurring

5. Benefits:  Day to Day Operational Needs Eliminates data entry Reports that identify eligible teacher candidates at each transition point Forecasting reports

6. Benefits:  Accreditation Collect comprehensive assessments from admissions to student certification Demonstrate diversity of field placements Align assessments with professional, state, and institutional standards

8. Benefits to UWF:  Tracking student progress ◦ How many students are in each stage? ◦ At what point do students drop out? ◦ How long does it take for students to get through each stage?  Necessary for program improvement and accreditation

9. Benefits to Students: Visibility of Program Requirements Informs them of progress

10. Benefits:  Allows UWF to collect specific information from all users of our system in addition to our SIS data  Provides data that can be compiled or aggregated for accreditation, assessment, promotion, tenure etc.  Provides a mechanism of collecting information that is not easily accessible  Provides standardization of information All of these contribute to effective data capture for accreditation and assessment needs.

11. Examples of Faculty Artifacts:  Syllabi  Curriculum Vita  Dissertation Committee Documentation

12. Benefits:  Increases variety of measures at your disposal  Survey large groups  Access groups that do not assemble regularly  Aggregate results due to an identical instrument  Eliminate fields necessary in paper-based surveys  Convenient for respondents  Cost-effective method requiring fewer resources

13.  Rule of Thumb: use surveys to collect data that cannot be obtained through other functionalities in Tk20.  Alumni activity surveys  Employer satisfaction surveys  Graduate exit surveys  Administrative/Non-Academic Department surveys

14. Benefits:  Simple to send out, either to selected courses or all courses  No gathering of paper forms/no more illegible answers  Responses confidential and anonymous, yet you will know who did not complete an evaluation  Instant access to data as it is entered, both aggregate and comprehensive

15. A set of pre-generated reports is available for use the minute course evaluations are sent:  People with Pending Course Evaluations  People with Complete Course Evaluations  Aggregated Results of All Responses  Aggregated Results by Course  Aggregated Results by Section  Aggregated Results by Term  Aggregated Results by Instructor

17.  Collect evidences that document students knowledge, skills, and dispositions  Generate reports for program improvement and accreditation needs  Align assignments and assessments to standards

18.  Disaggregate by program, campus (online, face-to-face), course, section, instructor, etc.  Enrollment, recent graduates, active (not enrolled)  Demographics (student and faculty)  Field Experience evaluations by course, program, unit  FTCE, GRE, FELE exam tracking  Diversity of Field Experience Placements