SALG Student Assessment of Learning Gains Suzanne Aurilio, Mark Laumakis CDI Online, July 14,2009.
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Transcript of SALG Student Assessment of Learning Gains Suzanne Aurilio, Mark Laumakis CDI Online, July 14,2009.
SALG Conceptually…
“SALG is designed to summarize the learning gains that students perceive they have made, both as a consequence of particular aspects of class pedagogy, and the teacher’s pedagogical approach.”
Functionally… “It can be edited on-line to reflect any set of learning objectives, is taken completed online by students and provides faculty with a summary of results in both statistical and graphic form.”
(Seymour, Wiese, Hunter, & Daffinrud, 2000 p.1)
What (and why) are you measuring? Do you want to evaluate your course according to
“best practices”, i.e. standard course design quality criteria?
Do you want to know more about your learners in general: needs, preferences, motivation, satisfaction?
Do you want to focus on student achievement? Do you want feedback on your facilitation of
learning? Do you want feedback on specific course
elements and/or technologies?
Use SALG to assess Design elements Learning resources Pedagogies Presentation media Assignments/Activities Interactions
(content, peers, instructor, technology itself)
Vinod SashidharanREC 404: Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Tourism
Customized SALG survey to assess students’ ratings of various elements of the course and WebQuest project based on how well the course content and WebQuest helped meet the objectives (student outcomes) of the course.
Mark LaumakisPsych 101
pICT fellow in 2005Began teaching parallel 500-student
sections of PSYCH 101 in 2006, one traditional and one hybrid
First fully online PSYCH 101, Summer 2008
Evaluating the Face-to-Face Class Evaluated Fall 2005 innovations via the
Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG)
How much did the following aspects of the class help your learning?
Rated from 1 (no help) to 5 (great help)
Clicker Data: Spring 2007
Question % Agree or Strongly
Agree
Class clicker usage makes me more likely to attend class.
93%
Class clicker usage helps me to feel more involved in class.
84%
Class clicker usage makes it more likely for me to respond to a question from the professor.
91%
I understand why my professor is using clickers in this course.
90%
My professor asks clicker questions which are important to my learning.
90%
Summer 2008 Fully Online: SALG Data
How much did the following aspects of the class help your learning?
Rated from 1 (no help) to 5 (great help)
Summer 2008 Fully Online: SALG Data
Question Summer 2008 Online
Taking the test online 4.27
Discussion Forums 3.00
Introduction e-mail that explained the basics of the course
4.50
SALG Data over time
Question Fall 2007
Blended
Fall 2007
F2F
Spring 2008
Blended
Spring 2008 F2F
Summer 2008
Online
Questions, answers, and discussions in class
3.96 4.04 4.10 4.01 4.36
Live online class sessions
3.39 4.20 4.15
Archives of live online class sessions
4.15 4.50 4.44
Quality of contact with the teacher
3.41 3.48 3.94 3.90 4.26
Working with peers outside of class/online
3.12 3.22 3.31 3.39 3.82
Resources
SALG Website http://www.salgsite.org/about/Seymour, E., Wiese, D., Hunter, A. & Daffinrud, S.M. (2000,
March). Creating a better mousetrap: On-line student assessment of their learning gains. Paper presentation at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA. http://www.salgsite.org/docs/SALGPaperPresentationAtACS.pdf