IDEAL – Institute for the Development of Excellence in Assessment Leadership
Topics You Will Explore
Assessment principles: You will learn the core principles of assessing student learning using a continuous improvement model. Topics covered will include:
- Writing measurable outcomes
- Developing scoring rubrics
- Curriculum mapping
- Choosing assessment tools
- Developing efficient processes and timelines
- Developing and implementing effective surveys
- Exploring the use of portfolios
- Reporting results
Facilitation skills: How to manage groups plays an important part in engaging other faculty in the assessment process. Whether you are leading a team of faculty from multiple departments or working with faculty within a single department, using facilitation tools will enable you to move efficiently through the process by harnessing faculty energy in meaningful directions. In addition to tips on how to facilitate a meeting, some of the things you will learn when and how to use include:
- Silent brainstorming and affinity process
- Force field analysis
- Modified nominal group process
- Decision matrix
- Jigsaws
- Issue bins
These processes will be modeled at the Institute.
Change management: Having a good understanding of the program assessment process and the tools to facilitate groups is necessary, but not sufficient to create sustainable change processes. Throughout the Institute, you will explore the basic principles of change management and be challenged to discern their applicability to your own college/program culture. Topics will include:
- Resistance
- Planning for change
- Communication and change
- Changing upwards
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