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On October 10, 2014, Boston University's Office of the Provost hosted an Assessment Workshop with Barbara Walvoord, author of "Assessment Clear and Simple."
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October 16, 2015 Program Learning Outcomes Assessment Workshop
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost
"Using the Results of Assessment: Lessons from the Wabash Study"
An Assessment Workshop with Charles Blaich & Kathy [...]Wise of the Wabash Center for Inquiry
Charles Blaich – Director, Center of Inquiry and the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS)
Kathy Wise – Associate Director, Center of Inquiry, and Director, Teagle Assessment Scholar Program
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Assessment Workshop, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Program Learning Outcomes Assessment Working Committees (February 28th, 2014).
Presentation by Natalie McKnight, Interim Dean of the College of General Studies.
In this [...]workshop, Dr. McKnight discusswa how the College of General Studies uses ePortfolios to assess the impact of their two-year program. She provides an overview of the rubric CGS developed and the methods used by their assessment committee. She also highlights a few student portfolios and shows the quantitative data CGS has collected in the past two years.
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Linking Program Goals with Evidence to Improve Outcomes Assessment
Laurie Pohl
Vice President for Enrollment & Student Affairs
In this hands-on workshop, Dr. Pohl will guide participants through the processes of determining the type of [...]evidence appropriate for assessing their program learning goals, obtaining such evidence, and developing a plan for implementing a useful and ongoing assessment process. Please come prepared with your program goals and ideas for assessing these goals.
Friday, March 28th, 2014.
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February 19th, 2014 Assessment Workshop, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Program Learning Outcomes Assessment Working Committees.
Presentations by Steven Davidson (Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives & Student Learning, SMG), [...]and Deborah Marlino (Associate Dean of Academic Programs & Student Affairs, SMG).
Measuring student learning is an essential step in the assessment process. In this session, Drs. Davidson and Marlino explore how faculty can use both direct and indirect measure to assess student performance against program learning goals. Through the perspective of recent efforts at two institutions, they explore how direct and indirect measurements can be identified, the role direct measurements play, and why there is value in using both.
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The Office of the Provost and the Program Learning Outcomes Assessment Working Committees hosted a workshop entitled Assessment in the Arts & Humanities, featuring special guests Laura Rosenthal and Donna Heiland, editors of Literary Study, [...]Measurement, and the Sublime: Disciplinary Assessment, on March 18th, 2014.
The afternoon session lead by Donna Heiland and entitled Assessment in the Humanities: A Workshop in Practice, was a hands-on workshop that guided participants through the process of developing ways to measure learning outcomes.
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The Office of the Provost and the Program Learning Outcomes Assessment Working Committees hosted a workshop entitled Assessment in the Arts & Humanities, featuring special guests Laura Rosenthal and Donna Heiland, editors of Literary Study, [...]Measurement, and the Sublime: Disciplinary Assessment, on March 18th, 2014.
The afternoon session lead by Donna Heiland and entitled Assessment in the Humanities: A Workshop in Practice, was a hands-on workshop that guided participants through the process of developing ways to measure learning outcomes.
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The Office of the Provost and the Program Learning Outcomes Assessment Working Committees hosted a workshop on March 18th, 2014, entitled Assessment in the Arts & Humanities, featuring special guests Laura Rosenthal and Donna Heiland, editors of [...]Literary Study, Measurement, and the Sublime: Disciplinary Assessment.
Assessment in the Humanities: Why? How? For Whom?
The morning session, lead by Laura Rosenthal, covered big picture topics, such as the politics of assessment and accrediting agencies, the purposes of assessment work, who looks at assessment, what assessment tools have been developed, and whether you should use preexisting assessment products or develop your own.
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Boston University Fall 2017 Assessment Workshop: Why Care About Accreditation? National Politics and the Future for Faculty
October 4, 2017
Sponsored by Gillian Pierce, Director of Learning Assessment, Office of the Provost.
Featuring [...]presentation by Dr. Judith S. Eaton, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
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