In preparation for the September 1st program report deadline, ATL staff worked with program assessment coordinators over the summer to support assessment planning, implementation, and report writing. We reviewed early report drafts and provided feedback, and we created toolkits to aid program reporting. A big thanks to those programs that let us share their assessment […]
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ATL worked with leadership during the summer to deepen our understanding of assessment practices and needs at WSU.
ATL worked with departments supporting various aspects of program assessment, including: Developing or revising student learning outcomes (SLO’s) Creating curriculum maps Conducting focus groups of seniors Helping analyze program assessment results from direct measures of student work
ATL has helped several programs revise their course evaluations this semester. We also helped develop a revised college-level course evaluation and pilot it with students in different courses and departments, getting feedback about how they understood and used the instrument. In these discussions, we asked students which questions they thought were most important, what they […]
ATL provided WSU leadership with a system-wide snapshot of undergraduate program assessment and a status update on WSU’s accreditation and assessment: 2011 Compiled Undergraduate Program Assessment Report: WSU’s institution-wide report, based on the compiled results of the 2011 program assessment reports and the spring-fall 2011 assessment inventory survey. 2012 Regional Accreditation and Assessment Update – […]
We revised the undergraduate assessment report template based on feedback from the 2011 reporting cycle. The new 2012 report template maintains the same basic information and structure as the 2011 template while streamlining and providing more guidance for responses in some sections. See Writing Your Program Report for more information.
In February 2012, Diane O’Dowd, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and neurobiologist, delivered a keynote address and conducted a series of workshops at WSU about active learning in large classes, teaching in STEM disciplines, mentoring TAs of large classes, and balancing a successful research career with effective and creative teaching. The event was sponsored by […]
ATL has reviewed and summarized annual program reports for each college and WSU, and is sharing compiled reports for discussion at the college and institutional levels.
ATL is analyzing data from the 2011 undergraduate program assessment reports and is producing an institutional level summary as well as compiled reports for each college. In these compiled reports, ATL includes observations about the data and recommendations for building and sustaining assessment in the coming year so that WSU can meet regional accreditation requirements […]