Celebrate the New Academic Year, Gallaudet University
Kellogg Conference Hotel
August 20, 2007 

On August 20, 2007, a series of faculty and staff lead assessment workshops kicked off the beginning of the new academic year. The celebration started with welcoming remarks from President Robert Davila and expressions of excitement from Provost Stephen Weiner for the challenges and triumps we anticipate for the upcoming new year.

Please click on the appropriate folder to access the power point presentation and the handouts by faculty and staff presenters. The evaluations were overwhelmingly positive about the event as a meaningful way to celebrate the beginning of a new academic year.

• Engaging Student Learners
  Presenter: Catherine Andersen
  Bring your best ideas for sharing and your notepads for gathering new ideas
  
  
• Setting Results and Outcomes for Administration and Finance
  Presenters: Eileen Matthews and Thelma Schroeder
  Improving services through the use of results-oriented targets to gauge progress.
  
  
• Using Results from the  National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
  Presenter: Carl Pramuk and Sen Qi
  Learn what students say about Gallaudet. Use this information to improve learning.
  
  
• Living and Learning in a Diverse Community
  Presenter: Darian Burwell and Elvia Guillermo
  Excatly what does it mean to live in a community with different people and different ideas?
  
  
• WayPoint Demo: E-Scoring for Rubrics
  Presenters: Cynthia King, Earl Parks and Deirdre McGlynn
  Want to make scoring with a rubric easier. Learn more about this new software;
  
  
• Assessment Basics
  Presenter: 'Bunmi Aina
  An overview of the assessment cycle and basic guiding principles.
  
  
• Academic Rigor in the Classroom
  Presenters: Emilia Chukwuma and Cristi Berdichevsky
  What do we mean by academic rigor? What does it look like in the classroom?
  
  
• Using the Foundation of Excellence (FOE) Data and Recommendations
  Presenters: Catherine Andersen, Usherla DeBerry, and Anne Simonsen
  What recommendations emerged from the year-long Foundation of Excellence work of faculty, staff, and students?
  
  
• The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Takes on the Challenge of Gallaudet University's Image.
  Presenters: Ann Powell, Chris Heuer, Jan Hafer, Cristi Berdichevsky, Robert Harrison, Martha Sheridan, and Emilia Chukwuma.
  Contribute through AAUP to the growing number of ideas for strengthening Gallaudet University's image.
  
  
• Outcomes and Test Items
  Presenter: Len Kelly
  Participants will learn how to develop observable outcomes and test items to measure these outcomes.
  
  
• Your Role in Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation
  Presenters: Catherine Andersen, Charity Reedy-Hines, and Darian Burwell
  What can we do as a member of Team Gallaudet to support University goals for recruitment, retention, and graduation.
  
  
• Using the Rubric to Measure Learning Outside the Classroom
  Presenters: Daniel Veit and Steve Koppi
  Participants will discover how a rubric can be developed to measure learning outside the classroom.

Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)
Student Learning Assessment Workshops: Getting Started with Assessment in General Education and Understanding and Using Assessment Results
University of Delaware John M. Clayton Hall Conference Center
September 10-11, 2007

"These workshops are one-day events designed for those who are not familiar with assessment and who need a basic, broad introduction to the topic. The program consists of presentations, interspersed with discussion and brief group and individual exercises that give participants opportunities to engage in and practice applying key concepts. These events do not include time to work on campus issues in detail."

"What you will learn:
The workshop on assessment in general education will prepare you to:

• Explain the four steps of the teaching-learning-assessment cycle to your colleagues
• Organize your assessment efforts across disciplines
• Develop clear statements of expected learning outcomes for your students
• Align your General Education curriculum with your expected learning outcomes
• Identify sources of evidence of student achievement of those learning outcomes
• Develop simple but effective tools to assess student learning

The workshop on understanding and using assessment results will prepare you to:

• Explain Middle States expectations for student learning assessment
• Articulate the purposes of your student learning assessment efforts
• Share assessment results in transparent, meaningful ways
• Understand and select from "lenses" that may be used to view and interpret assessment results
• Use assessment results to improve teaching and learning"

Attendees: Provost Stephen Weiner, Provost, Academic Affairs; Fred Weiner, Director, Program Development, Administration & Finance; Eileen Matthews, Executive Director, Assessment Office; Dwight Benedict, Executive Director, Student Affairs; Kathryn Baldridge, Associate Professor PE, Chair of CUE/GSR; Bunmi Aina, Director, English Language Institute; Ann Powell, Assessment Fellow and Professor/Chair, Biology; Janice Johnson, Coordinator, Assessment Office; William Kachman, Assessment Fellow and Associate Director, Mental Health Center

Peggy Maki, PhD, September 18, 2007, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Assessing As Critical Inquiry
Gallaudet University, Andrew Foster Auditorium
Open to Campus

Dr. Peggy Maki's Bio:
Peggy Maki, Ph.D., specializes in assisting institutions integrate assessment of student learning into educational practices, processes and structures. Her work focuses on assessment within the context of accreditors' expectations for institutional effectiveness. Copies of her 2004 book, Assessing for Learning: Building a Sustainable Commitment Across the Institution, can be found in the Assessment Resource Center, HMB E150A. "Moving from Paperwork to Pedagogy" published in 2002 in the AAHE bulletin can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20040603172034/aahebulletin.com/public/archive/paperwork.asp as well as her biography.

Brown Bag Lunch, October 30, 2007, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, 
Guess What I Learned at the MSCHE Student Learning Assessment Workshops
Hall Memorial E150
Presenters: Bunmi Aina, Kathryn Baldridge, Dwight Benedict, Janice Johnson, William Kachman, Eileen Mattthews, Ann Powell, Fred Weiner, and Provost Stephen Weiner \

Presenters discussed how to develop clear learning outcomes for students; how to align Gallaudet's general education curriculum with department expected learning outcomes; how to develop effective tools to assess student learning outcomes and other assessment resources.

Open to the campus community: 38 attendees

Virginia Anderson, PhD, October 18, 2007, 8:30 am
Rubrics: A Tool for Learning and Assessment
Gallaudet University, I. K. Jordan Student Academic Center
Open Academic Departments and Student Support Units

To arrange for a private consultation with Dr. Anderson to receive feed back on your rubrics or assistance in getting started, please contact Janice Johnson at mailto:Janice.Johnson@gallaudet.edu. If you have a rubric that you would like feedback on, submit that rubric to Janice Johnson no later than October 15, 2007. Copies of Dr. Anderson's book on rubrics, Effective Grading as well as Steven's Introduction to Rubrics can be found in the Assessment Resource Room, HMB E150A. Articles by Dr. Anderson related to rubrics and assessments are available upon request from our office.

	MSU Teaching Thought 16 PDF Modified: 10/23/2007
	Student Reflection As a Tool PDF Modified: 10/23/2007
	Dr. Virginia Anderson's Handout PDF Modified: 10/23/2007

Dr. Virginia Anderson's Bio:
Virginia Johnson Anderson is a professor of Biology at Towson University (TU)in Maryland. As chair of the biology department's assessment committee, she has taken an active role in campus and system wide university assessment in Maryland, served as an assessment consultant on several National Science foundation projects, and presented formative assessment workshops for the American Society of Microbiologists and the U.S. Peace Corps. Joining the Towson faculty in 1968 as an instructor, Anderson received her B.S. degree from Lamar University, her M.S. degree (1966) in science education from the University of Georgia and her Ed.D. degree in 1984 in science education from the University of Maryland.

The 2007 Assessment Institute
IUPUI (Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis)
The Westin Indianapolis
November 4-6, 2007

"How to plan your Institute experience

The Institute is designed to introduce you to innovations in assessment that you can use. You may choose concurrent workshops that provide a more in-depth perspective on a particular topic or the Best Practices Presentations to gather ideas about specific instruments or techniques. Be sure to make some time for networking and enjoying the city of Indianapolis.

 What you'll learn at the Institute

You will learn about new techniques, approaches, and ideas in a variety of outcomes assessment areas, including general education and major fields as well as civic engagement, student development, and electronic portfolios, each of which has its own track throughout the schedule. Several sessions are designed for beginners and others are for the more experienced practitioner."

Attendees: Catherine Andersen, Interim Dean, Enrollment Management Services; Benjamin Bahan, Professor, ASL and Deaf Studies; Kathryn Baldridge, Associate Professor PE, Chair of CUE/GSR; Marquessa Brown, Professor, Social Work; Terry Coye, Faculty Development; Eileen Matthews, Executive Director, Assessment Office; Cindy Officer, Assessment Fellow and Interim Coordinator, Tutorial & Instructional Programs; Ann Powell, Assessment Fellow and Professor/Chair, Biology; Carl Pramuk, Director, Office of Student Conduct; Leslie Rach, Associate Professor English, GSR Assessment Fellow; Meridith Selden, Assistant Professor, Psychology, Caroline Solomon, Associate Professor, Biology; Judith Termini, Interim Director, First Year Experience

Brown Bag Lunch, December 6, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Guess What I Learned at the 2007 Assessment Institute
Hall Memorial E150
Presenters: Catherine Andersen, Ben Bahan, Kathryn Baldridge, Marqessa Brown, Terry Coye, Eileen Matthews, Cindy Officer, Ann Powell, Carl Pramuk, Leslie Rach, Meridith Selden, Carolyn Solomon, and Judy Termini

Presenters discussed what they learned about various techniques, approaches, and ideas in a variety of outcomes assessment areas, including general education and major fields as well as civic engagement, student development, and electronic portfolios.

Open to the campus community: 47 attendees

MSCHE
2007 Annual Conference of the MSCHE
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA
December 9-11, 2007
Plenary Session: Coping with Challenges of Assessment on Campus

Attendees: Ann Powell, Assessment Fellow and Professor/Chair, Biology; William Kachman, Assessment Fellow and Associate Director, Mental Health Center; Cindy Officer, Assessment Fellow and Interim Coordinator, Tutorial & Instructional Programs; Catherine Andersen, Interim Dean, Enrollment Management Services; Patricia Hulsebosch, Assistant Dean Certification and Accreditation

AAC & U (Association of American Colleges and Universities)
Annual Meeting: Intentional Learning, Unscripted Challenges: Knowledge and Imagination for an Interdependent World
Washington, DC
January 23-26, 2008

Conference Theme:
"AAC&U will engage discussion about the ways in which isolated campus approaches to civic engagement, diversity, and global learning might intersect to deepen student learning and preparation for a new global century."

Attendees: Leslie Rach, Associate Professor English/GSR Assessment Fellow; Judy Termini, Interim Director, First Year Experience; Terry Coye, Faculty Development; Kathryn Baldridge, GSR Director and Chair, CUE; Catherine Andersen, Interim Dean, Enrollment Management Services

MSCHE
Integrating Higher Education Planning & Assessment
University of Delaware John M. Clayton Hall Conference Center
January 27-29, 2008

"This comprehensive workshop provides participants with solid grounding on the MSCHE standards related to planning and assessment, both with respect to conceptual content and strategies for demonstrating compliance.

The workshop will review the fundamental elements of best practice in institutional planning, accompanied by examples from institutions engaged in those best practices. The central focus of this workshop will be how best to inform the institutional planning process with outcomes measures related to both student learning and institutional effectiveness.

• Participants are encouraged to bring documents related to their institutional mission as a basis for group exercises focusing on building planning and assessment processes that are thoroughly rooted in that mission.
• Discussion will focus on preparing the planning process, and on practical approaches to collecting relevant and reliable assessment information and using that information as the basis for institutional planning and resource allocation decisions."

Attendees: Provost Stephen Weiner, Provost, Academic Affairs; Eileen Matthews, Executive Director, Assessment Office; Catherine Andersen, Interim Dean, Enrollment Management Services; Patricia Hulsebosch, Assistant Dean Certification and Accreditation; Kathryn Baldridge, GSR Direct and Chair, CUE; Jane Dillehay, Professor, Biology; Thomas Kluwin, Director, Institutional Research; Ann Powell, Assessment Fellow and Professor/Chair Biology; Fred Weiner, Director, Program Development, Administration & Finance

AAC & U (Associate of American Colleges and Universities)
Integrative Designs for General Education and Assessment
February 21-23, 2008
Boston, Massachusetts

"Integrative Designs for General Education and Assessment will focus on ways that faculty, academic administrators, and student affairs educators can shape higher education's response to calls for increased accountability while, at the same time, reinvigorating general education. These realities and perceptions of general education can often result in faculty indifference and students who are confused about the purpose of general education."

Attendees: Eileen Matthews, Executive Director, Assessment Office; Cindy Officer, Interim Coordinator, Tutorial & Instructional Programs; Ann Powell, Assessment Fellow and Professor/Chair, Biology

Academic Impressions
Improving Outcomes-Based Assessment for Student Affairs
February 25-26, 2008 San Diego, CA

Attendees: Dwight Benedict, Executive Director, Student Affairs Travis Imel, Program Manager, Campus Life, William Kachman, Assessment Fellow and Associate Director, Mental Health Center, Carl Pramuk, Director, Office of Student Conduct

Overview
"The conference will focus on establishing a shared conceptual framework for outcomes-based assessment, which includes the establishment and use of a common language. The workshops will help student affairs conference attendees understand the differences between conducting research and outcomes-based assessment in order to approach their planning in a more meaningful and manageable way. Participants will share some of their current learning outcomes and begin to revise them using learning and student development theory."

Brown Bag Lunch, March 27, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Guess What I Learned at the … 

• MSCHE: Integrating Higher Education Planning and Assessment Conference
• AAC&U: Integrative Designs for General Education and Assessment
• Academic Impressions: Improving Outomes-Based Assessment for Student Affairs

Hall Memorial E150
Presenters: Catherine Andersen, Kathryn Baldridge, Dwight Benedict, Jane Dillehay, Patricia Hulsebosch, Travis, Imel, William Kachman, Thomas Kluwin, Eileen Matthews, Cindy Officer, Ann Powell, Carl Pramuk, Fred Weiner, and Provost Stephen Weiner

Presenters discussed what they learned about various techniques, approaches, and ideas related to assessment practices

Office of Assessment, April 7, 2008, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Sharing Assessment Results
I. K. Jordan Student Academic Center, Sprint MPR

Faculty and staff will participate in roundtable discussions representing 4 different departments. Discussions will focus on sharing assessment results, explaining faculty/staff involvement with the assessment process, and next steps.

MSCHE
Taking the Next Step: A Student Learning Assessment Institute
University of Delaware John M. Clayton Hall Conference Center
May 18-20, 2008

"This institute is designed for faculty and administrators seeking in-depth and hands-on experience with strategies to lead their institution to the next level of student learning assessment. Topics

• Promoting a campus-wide culture of assessment
• Developing statements of expected learning outcomes
• Developing Assessment tools 
• Defining and assessing critical thinking skills
• Interpreting and using assessment results http://www.msche.org/?Nav1=EVENTS&Nav2=2008.05.04 "