Assessment Liaison Orientation meeting

Introductions

• Name• Department or program

Background1. Academy for Student Assessment

– An HLC program; working with HLC mentors to develop an assessment plan that is aligned with HLC criteria and can generate data that can be used for self study

– UWP project: Undergraduate shared learning goals, building on GenEd as a foundations and assessing realization of goals in/through majors

2. Self-Study

3. Program Review

4. Strategic Plan Mini-Grant $300 per liaison once worksheet has been completed and submitted to AAAC for

review

Purpose of Assessment Liaison Program

• To facilitate the work of departments and programs with majors to ensure that all have stated and publicly available learning goals and outcomes that are being used to assess student learning in ways to facilitate student learning

• Good educational practice• Meets Higher Learning Commission

accreditation expectations

Assessment Worksheet

• UW Parkside Assessment website: http://www.uwp.edu/departments/academic.affairs/assessment/Assessment.cfm

• Assessment worksheet• The worksheet should be completed in steps

over the semester.• TLC assessment workshops are intended to

help answer worksheet questions in steps.

UW-Parkside - Spring, 2012 

Tasks Start DateDuration (days) End Date

1) Hold a training for the chair's or director's designees on creating learning goals for their major/program and linking their learning goals to the shared learning goals for UW-Parkside. 1/20/2012 0 1/20/2012

2) Departments submit their program learning goals to AAAC to affirm that the departments are prepared to assess their program's learning goals. 1/17/2012 120 5/16/2012

3) HLC-SLO and AAAC host workshops to assist department liaisons to complete the worksheets for their department's assessment planning. 2/3/2012 90 5/3/20124) AAAC provides feedback to departments on their learning goals and assessment plans. 2/1/2012 120 5/31/2012

5) OIE posts the learning goals for each major on the UW-Parkside Assessment Web site. 3/4/2012 60 5/3/2012

6) Each department liaison will Identify at least one assessment project for each major based on the learning goals created for the major. Once developed, it will be shared with the AAAC for feedback and for posting through the UW-P assessment Web page. 5/1/2012 60 6/30/20127) AAAC provides feedback on the assessment projects submitted by the department liaisons. 6/30/2012 60 8/29/20128) Departments collect baseline data for assessment of a learning goal in the major. The department liaison reports to the AAAC on their progres8. 9/1/2012 90 11/30/20129) AAAC provides feedback on the report from the departmental assessment liaison 11/30/2012 30 12/30/201210) AAAC provides feedback to CAP on assessment within the academic plan. 2/1/2012 75 4/16/201211) Department liaisons report the results of their major's assessment project regarding the chosen learning goal for the major to the AAAC. AAAC provides feedback to the departments. 1/1/2013 40 2/10/201312) Department liaisons will Identify curricular changes or updates based on the assessment data in consultation with the department's faculty. The chosen changes will be shared with the AAAC. 2/10/2013 35 3/17/201313) Departments create a plan for making changes to the curriculum if improvements are indicated in the analysis of assessment data. The plans will be shared with the AAAC and implemented in the semester following the analysis. 3/17/2013 120 7/15/201314) Departmental faculty determine curriculum changes; propose changes through governance bodies. 9/1/2013 90 11/30/201315) Departments roll out curriculum changes. 1/1/2014 0 1/1/2014

Workshop Date Time Location

Assessment for Student Learning Workshop: Learning Goals

Friday, February 3repeated Friday, February 17

12:00 -2:00 pm

2:00 -4:00 pm

Learning Tech Lab - WYLL D103 (D1 level entry)

Learning Tech Lab - WYLL D103

Assessment for Student Learning Workshop: Curriculum Maps

Friday, March 2repeated Friday, March 30

12:00 -2:00 pm

2:00 -4:00 pm

Learning Tech Lab - WYLL D103 (D1 level entry)

Learning Tech Lab - WYLL D103

Assessment for Student Learning Workshop: Program Improvement

Friday, April 6repeated Friday, April 13

12:00 -2:00 pm

2:00 -4:00 pm

Learning Tech Lab - WYLL D103 (D1 level entry)

Learning Tech Lab - WYLL D103

Workshop Registration

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