Webinar Description
Assessment of student learning is not a fad and is not going away; it is central to the mission and purpose of higher education. Campuses are engaged in developing purposeful assessment cycles that inform and improve teaching and learning. Maintaining momentum with the assessment of student learning requires campuses to stay "SMART"
Showcasing success
Maintaining relationships
Assessing, assessing, assessing
Reporting
Training.
In this webinar we will discuss how these five areas are critical to building and sustaining the assessment of student learning. For many campuses, getting started was a challenge but moving forward and keeping the momentum can be a struggle as well. This workshop will ask participants to consider their assessment challenges. A discussion of ways to keep assessment front and center so that programs continue to improve teaching and learning in meaningful ways will follow. You and your colleagues will walk away with tools and strategies you can begin using immediately to enhance assessment planning and use of assessment to improve teaching and learning on your campus.
Objectives
Participants will:
• Review the challenges of getting started and maintaining plans for assessing student learning
• Discuss strategies for supporting programs and faculty in the assessment of student learning
• Identify tools to enhance assessment planning and use of assessment to improve teaching and learning
• Consider how they can begin using these strategies immediately
• Determine which strategies might work best on their campuses
Who is the Speaker?
Jodi Levine Laufgraben is the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Assessment at Temple University. Dr. Laufgraben has over twenty years of experience in higher education including administration, accreditation management, teaching, faculty development, and program evaluation. She has collaborated with faculty and senior leadership on academic program development and assessment. In her current role she manages program review for over 80 academic units and accreditation and assessment activities for the Office of the Provost. She serves as her institution's liaison to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. She has experience developing and assessing academic programs aimed at improving undergraduate teaching and learning. Dr. Laufgraben was a member of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education's Advisory Panel on Student Learning and Assessment that assisted in the development of the 2003 publication "Student Learning Assessment." She presents and write on a variety of topics related to higher education and student success: assessment of student learning, program evaluation, learning communities, faculty development, collaborative learning, academic affairs/student affairs partnerships, academic advising, and student development and teaches courses on planning, research design, classroom research, and administrative theory and practice in Temple's College of Education.
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