The Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence (C21TE) in conjunction with the Office of Assessment will offer the following workshops on Assessment in Spring 2009. The workshops will be held in the Faculty Lab located at SVC 1072.
To register for any of the workshops, please follow the instructions indicated on the C21TE workshop website.
If you need further information and/or have questions regarding classroom or program level assessment workshops, please contact
Defining, Assessing and Documenting Student Learning: Basics and Beyond
Wednesday, February 11, From 10:00 to 12:00
How do we define the body of knowledge students should gain through an educational experience? How do we know what students know? How do we formulate a systematic approach to yield information on what students are learning and responsive changes made to courses and curricular? In this interactive workshop, participants will address these three questions and discuss how effective approaches may be used to enhance student learning at the classroom level. Documentation of student learning in the context of online courses and curriculum will also be included in this session.
Student Learning Outcomes: Identifying, Articulating, and Achieving Them
Wednesday, March 11, From 2:00 to 4:00
This interactive workshop will emphasize the importance of defining expectations and standards for your course(s) through (i) writing clear, concise, measurable, and meaningful student learning outcomes easily understood by students in your course and/or program, faculty, parents and employers, and (ii) focusing on a few outcomes that can lead to improvement of student learning at the course and program levels.
Developing and Using Rubrics for Assessing, Grading, and Improving Student Learning
Wednesday, February 25, From 10:00 to 12:00
Rubrics describe levels of proficiency for a learning performance. They delineate the criteria for assessing evidence for student learning, but they also can be fair and effective tools for grading and improving student learning at the course and program levels. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn stages of developing and integrating rubrics into assessment plans and into the classroom to expedite grading, provide formative feedback, and encourage learning. Please bring your course syllabus or an assignment for which you would like to develop a rubric and you’ll leave with rubric examples and the energy to try them out.
Using Classroom Level Assessment Results to Enhance Student Learning
Wednesday, March 4, From 10:00 to 12:00
Learn how you can use your students’ assignments and tests to improve your curriculum and instructional methods. This hands-on workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to share effective methods of using assessment results to improve student learning, including involving students in all stages of the assessment process. This means, developing objectives, mapping objectives to student learning experiences (in and out of class), selecting appropriate assessment methods, data collection strategies, analysis of data, and most important, interpreting results.
How do you know your students are learning? Are you aligning your course objectives with your assignments and assessment of student learning? Are your majors leaving USF with the skills they need in the real world? This session will cover basic issues related to assessment of student learning that can contribute to your department’s Academic Learning Compacts.
