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2013 Preparing Future Faculty to Assess Student Learning (PFF-ASL) Spring Institute (Clips)
Michigan State University Graduate School
YouTube videos of clips from the 2013 Preparing Future Faculty to Assess Student Learning (PFF-ASL) Spring Institute. Videos include Aligning Course, Programmatic, and Institutional Goals - An Example - Integrative Humanities Program and Aligning Course, Programmatic and Institutional Goals - An Example - Writing Program.
Assessing and improving student writing in college: A guide for institutions, general education, departments, and classrooms
Walvoord, B.E.
2014
Jossey-Bass
Walvoord addresses issues such as how to engage faculty, how to use rubrics, how to aggregate assessment information at the department and institutional levels, and how to report assessment information to accreditors.
Growth in disciplinary resources for assessment in the liberal arts
Ford, T.
2010 November-December
Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Although a bit late to the stage, discipline-specific resources for assessment of student learning have reached the tipping point in many liberal arts disciplines.
Literary study, measurement, and the sublime: Disciplinary assessment
Heiland, D. & Rosenthal, L. (Eds.).
2011
The Teagle Foundation
What happens when the disciplines make themselves heard in the discussions of learning outcomes assessment that are ubiquitous in higher education today? What do disciplinary perspectives and methodologies have to bring to the table? This volume engages these questions from the perspective of literary study, with essays by education leaders, faculty from English and foreign language departments, and assessment experts that offer a wide range of perspectives.
Pulling it all together: Connecting liberal arts outcomes with departmental goals through general education
Grindley, C. J. et. al.
2010
Association of American Colleges and Universities
When our team arrived at AAC&U’s 2009 Engaging Departments Institute in Philadelphia, we wanted to work on a plan to both broaden and deepen our students’ knowledge of the liberal arts, and in doing so address issues relating to retention, graduation, and assessment as collateral benefits.
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