Faculty Effectiveness and Evaluation Department Chair/Program Director Series

By Jennifer Peters in 2023-2024 CUWAA Programs, Outcomes Assessment

Faculty Effectiveness and Evaluation Department Chair/Program Director Series 

Friday, March 22, 2024,  Via Zoom from Noon to 1 pm Central/1:00 to 2 pm Eastern 

 

With Leah Dvorak and Ted Hopkins

 

This session will review CUWAA’s ranked faculty annual evaluation form, process and timeline. We will discuss sources of evidence used to ensure that our faculty are effective teachers addressing the mission of Concordia, productive scholars, and contribute service to the university, church, community and/or profession. We will also cover resources CUWAA provides to help faculty achieve their goals, including the CELT (for teaching), and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (for research, grants and scholarship), the ranked faculty first three-year development process, and how department chairs/program directors can (and should) be involved in observing, mentoring and supporting their faculty. 

Recording: https://cuwaa.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=985e7fc8-d606-4112-92e3-b13e00e515fb

PowerPoint: Faculty Effectiveness and Evaluation 2024

20240126-1 Eight Elements of Effective Program Assessment

By Jennifer Peters in 2023-2024 CUWAA Programs, Current Programs, Outcomes Assessment

Eight Elements of Effective Program Assessment  

Friday January 26, Noon – 1:00 Central/1:00 – 2:00 Eastern via Zoom 

 

With Elizabeth Evans and Kemery Sigmund

 

The audience for this program is department chairs, program directors and faculty.  

Evaluating our students’ learning at the program level involves establishing learning goals, creating tools to evaluate student learning, collecting data using the tools, developing conclusions about the data, and making changes to improve student learning. Engaging faculty in the process and using the process for improvement are further vital elements. Please come to this winter faculty development program to learn more what creates effective assessment practice at Concordia in each major, graduate program, and stand-alone certificate.   

 

Recording: https://cuwaa.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3a7cd308-cab8-4acd-a2d5-b103015df753

Handouts:

Final Eight Criteria Assessment Session 1-26-24

Feedback on Program Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes Example

Program Assessment Leader Roundtable 23

By Jennifer Peters in 2023-2024 CUWAA Programs, Outcomes Assessment 0 Comment

Concordia University
Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
CELT

Program Assessment Leader Roundtable 23 on Zoom

Thursday, August 17, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Central/12:30 – 2:00 pm Eastern on Zoom

 with Elizabeth Evans

For all program assessment leaders including faculty assessment committee members at each campus. This session will focus on a review of GLO #6 Analytical Fluency from the past year, including data submitted to date, and a look forward to 2023-2024 focus on GLO #3 Integrated Disciplinary Knowledge and GLO #1 Christian Faith. Leaders contribute to collegial conversations about assessment practices and experiences, their development in the phases of the assessment cycle, and share improvements made in the past year arising out of assessment results. Reminders about current year instructions, resources, and support information are available on the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes channel on the portal (faculty tab), and the October 1, 2023 deadline for reports for 2022-2023 from programs (majors/graduate programs/stand-alone certificates).

 

For a recording of the meeting please click here

Handouts and PowerPoint link are below:

 All of these links and more are on the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes portal channel (Faculty tab)

Assessment Tools Resources Support 5/18/2023

By Susan Gallanis in 2022-2023 CUAA Programs, 2022-2023 CUW Programs, Assessment of Student Learning, Global Learning Outcomes, Outcomes Assessment 0 Comment

Assessment Tools, Resources, Support 

Thursday May 18, 2:00 – 3:00 pm Central/3:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern via Zoom 

With Elizabeth Evans, Susan Gallanis and Kate Robertson 

This year the university is focusing on the continuous improvement process for learning in your program connected to your Program Learning Outcome aligned with GLO #6 Analytical Fluency.  This session is for anyone who wants information on the tools, resources and support available for this work. We will also highlight the instructions for this year’s reporting focusing on GLO #6 due no later than 10-01-2023, and plans for next year (2023-2024) program assessment focusing on GLO#3 and GLO #1.  

Recording

Tools Resources Support PPT

Additional Resources:

Plans for Program Assessment 2023-2024

By Susan Gallanis in Assessment of Student Learning, Outcomes Assessment 0 Comment

In the 2023-2024 academic year, we will focus on GLO #3 Integrated Disciplinary Knowledge and GLO#1 Christian Faith. Next year, versions of both forms, adapted for 23-24, will be required. That means you will submit information on data collection, conclusions, recommendations on your Program Learning Outcomes aligned with GLO #3 Integrated Disciplinary Knowledge and GLO #1 Christian Faith. In subsequent years, we will recommend a cycle of review which always includes GLO #1 Christian Faith.

2023-2024 Focus GLO #3 Integrated Disciplinary Knowledge

“Our graduates integrate insights from a wide range of disciplines.”

This kind of learning engages students to build knowledge and abilities across two or more disciplines, including within courses, among courses, between coursework and practicum settings, within interprofessional education, and between academic curriculum and the university co-curriculum. Examples range from using multiple modes of inquiry, making connections among ideas and experiences, including reflecting on these connections, to synthesizing learning in new, complex situations within and beyond the campus.

Categories

  • 3.1 Combine or compare modes of inquiry, methods, or theoretical frameworks from two or more disciplines to address questions or problems (includes ULAO 3.b)
  • 3.2 Make connections from two or more disciplines to experiential learning in real world settings such as service learning, travel, practicum, clinical or internship experiences
  • 3.3 Apply multiple disciplines, roles, and perspectives in collaboration within interprofessional education (IPE) experiences
  • 3.4 Connect the curriculum and the co-curriculum  (academic learning with campus life and activities)
  • 3.5 Other (includes ULAO 3a, 3c, 3d)

If you have questions about assessment, please contact Elizabeth Evans at elizabeth.evans@cuw.edu or 262 243 4283.

Instructions for 2022-2023 Academic Program Assessment Reporting

By Susan Gallanis in Assessment of Student Learning, Outcomes Assessment 0 Comment

This year the Program Assessment Report is improved from last year’s report. Where previously we had two parts for the electronic form, this year we have one part. This one form includes the entire six-part assessment cycle from outcomes to impact of changes made related to your assessment work generally and GLO #6 Analytical Fluency. View the elements by clicking on the form.

A representative of every undergraduate major, stand-alone certificate and graduate or professional program should be able to complete this form by October 1, 2023, the final due date. This report describes your program activities and data on GLO #6 for the 2022-2023 academic year.

A second (optional) form is available for programs that were also working on GLO #1 Christian Faith in 2022-2023, and are able to submit information on tools, data, conclusions, and changes. This report is in addition to the 2022-2023 Program Assessment Report. View the elements by clicking on the form.

If you have questions about assessment or these forms, please contact Elizabeth Evans at elizabeth.evans@cuw.edu or 262 243 4283.

Instructions for 2021-2022 Academic Program Assessment Reporting

By Susan Gallanis in Assessment of Student Learning, Outcomes Assessment 0 Comment

This year the program Assessment Report will be very similar to last year’s report, in two parts, both available as online submissions.

A representative of every undergraduate major, stand-alone certificate and graduate or professional program for each campus should be able to complete Part 1 by  June 30, 2022 and Part 2 as soon thereafter as you have completed your assessment work for 2021-2022, hopefully no later than November 1, 2022. The last date for any submissions for 2021-2022 work is December 31, 2022.

Any data you submit should relate to student performance in academic year 2021-2022.  Data must be reported separately for each campus (Mequon and Ann Arbor), so if your program has students at both campuses, submit two separate Part 2 reports.

Further guidance for Part 1 and Part 2 is provided below.

Information on Part 1

Everyone should be able to complete Part 1.  If you are a new program and don’t yet have students, please submit only Part 1. If your assessment activities and data collection tools are identical across both campuses, complete one Part 1, and mark both campuses in the “which campus reporting for” drop-down question.

Part 1 includes a request to upload your current curriculum map.  The map should include all you Program Learning Outcomes, the alignment of the PLOs to the GLOs, including an explicitly stated connection of one PLO to GLO #1 Christian Faith. The map lists all required courses and shows where learning is introduced, developed and then assessed at the exit point. You can also include where learning in each PLO is assessed at the entry point (this is optional).

Here is the example curriculum map https://www.cuw.edu/academics/services/faculty-staff-resources/celt/_assets/ExampleCurriculumMap.docx?v=2022

Information on Part 2

Use this link to report your work and data from this past year connected to GLO #2

2021-2022: GLO #2 Data Collection, Conclusions, Improvements, Impact

For Part 2, you should be able to submit your work on at least one of your PLOs related to a past focus GLO,  if you don’t have anything yet to report on GLO #2.  If you have data on multiple GLOs, please complete reports for GLO #2 Service and Global Citizenship and GLO#1 Christian Faith.

During or after the data collection process, put your data in the five-point University Common Scale.

Significantly Below Expectations (1) Below Expectations (2) Meets Expectations (3) Exceeds Expectations (4) Significantly Exceeds Expectations (5)

If you haven’t collected, evaluated and made improvement plans for your PLO aligned with GLO #2 yet (keep working on it), you could share your work on GLO#1, GLO #4 or GLO#5 at these links.  Be sure any data you submit relates to student performance in academic year 2021-2022.

Word Walk-through of Part 1 Narrative is here: Part-1-Assessment-Report- Narrative-2021-2022-Overview-and-Walkthrough

Word Walk-through of Part 2 on GLO#2 is here: Part 2-Assessment Report 21-22 GLO2 Overview and Walkthrough

Word Walk-through of Part 2 on GLO#1 is here: Part-2-Assessment-Report-2021-2022-GLO1-Overview-and-Walkthrough

Word Walk-through of Part 2 on GLO#4 is here: Part 2- Assessment Report 2021-2022 GLO4 Walkthrough

If you have questions or problems with the forms, please contact Elizabeth Evans at elizabeth.evans@cuw.edu or 262 243 4283.

Assessment PARTY 2021

By Susan Gallanis in 2021-2022 CUAA Programs, 2021-2022 CUW Programs, Assessment of Student Learning, Outcomes Assessment 0 Comment

PARTY 21 PPT August 19 and 23, 2021

Handout on GLO #2 Categories

Recording

Coming up: The University Catalog in which your program appears (G or UG) will be the Official CU home for all your program PLOs as of the 22-23 Catalog, to be completed in Spring 2022.
As you make improvements in your program and see the need to update your PLOs,  update them annually in the catalog and your curriculum map if they change.

Link to University Global Outcomes https://www.cuw.edu/about/offices/institutional-effectiveness/outcome-statements.html

What is EAC? With Susan Gallanis https://cuwaa.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=65399f4f-6452-4106-b5d3-ad83014c4466

Instructions for 2020-2021 Academic Program Assessment Reporting: https://celt.cuw.edu/2020-2021-academic-program-assessment-reporting/

2020-2021 Academic Program Assessment Reporting

By Susan Gallanis in Assessment of Student Learning, Global Learning Outcomes, Outcomes Assessment 0 Comment

Instructions for 2020-2021 Academic Program Assessment Reporting

This year the Assessment Report will be in two parts, both available as online submissions. Guidance for these forms is provided below.

Part 1:  2020-2021: Program Assessment Report Part 1 – Narrative
Part 2:  2020-2021: GLO #4 Critical Thinking Data Collection, Conclusions, Improvements, Impact  

There are other options if you haven’t yet been able to collect and work with GLO #4 Critical Thinking data this year. Part 2 Data Collection, Conclusions, Improvements, Impact forms for GLO#1 Christian Faith (first choice) and GLO #5 Communicative Fluency are available for data you worked with that measures student learning for 2020-2021.

A representative of every undergraduate major, stand-alone certificate and graduate/professional program for each campus should be able to complete Part 1 by June 30, 2020 and Part 2 as soon thereafter as you have completed your assessment work for 2020-2021, hopefully no later than August 15, 2021.

Please submit at least one of these Part 2 Assessment Reports this year, more than one if you wish and have those data. If you are a new program and don’t yet have students, please submit only Part 1.

If your assessment activities and data collection tools are identical across both campuses, you can complete one Part 1, but data must be reported separately for Ann Arbor, so there should be two Part 2 reports with Mequon and Ann Arbor data submitted separately.

Guidance for Part 1: This online narrative form asks for information in several areas…

  • program assessment and curriculum development activities during 2020-2021
  • upload your Curriculum Map as of the end of the year, that
  • lists all of your Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs),
  • shows Program Learning Outcome alignments to the GLOs,
  • indicates where each PLO is introduced and developed in courses, and assessed at the summative [exit] level for completing students. If entry level assessments are planned, please indicate those as well (those are optional).
  • https://celt.cuw.edu/curriculum-map-example/

An overview and Word replica of Part 1 online narrative form is available  Part 1 Assessment Report 2020-2021 Overview and Walkthrough

Guidance for Part 2: Complete Part 2 after you have collected, analyzed and made conclusions about GLO #4  data for 2020-2021 compared to how you hoped students would perform, and made recommendations for changes to improve student learning if needed.

2020-2021 GLO #4 Critical Thinking Data Collection, Conclusions, Improvements, Impact

This form includes a section for entry-level assignments (if you have one) and a section for exit-level assignments including the type of assignment, the category of GLO #4, the actual data based on the University Common Scale (how many students were in each of these: Significantly Below Expectations; Below Expectations; Meets Expectations; Exceeds Expectations; Significantly Exceeds Expectations), your conclusions about this data- did this meet  your expectations for student performance? your program recommendations for changes, and the impact of any changes you made previously.

There are other Part 2 Data Collection, Conclusions, Improvements, Impact forms. You could submit  GLO#1 Christian Faith data you worked with this year, if you don’t have #4 Critical Thinking data, conclusions and recommendations for this year. GLO #5 Communicative Fluency could also be addressed if you worked with that data this year and did not complete either GLO #4 or GLO #1 data.

If you had students, please submit at least one of these Part 2 of the Assessment Reports this year, more than one if you wish and have those data. Data for the Ann Arbor campus must be reported separately from Mequon or Center data using this form.  Each program should submit separately

An overview and Word replica of Part 2 online form for GLO #4 is available here Part 2 Assessment Report 2020-2021 GLO#4 Overview and Walkthrough

An overview and Word replica of Part 2 online form for GLO #1 is available here Part 2 Assessment Report 2020-2021 GLO#1 Overview and Walkthrough

 

If you have questions or problems with the forms, or have other data to report, please contact Elizabeth Evans at elizabeth.evans@cuw.edu or 262 243 4283.