Building Sustainable Partnerships

PREPARING FUTURE FACULTY TO ASSESS STUDENT LEARNING

Building Sustainable Partnerships: The NC A&T -UNC-Greensboro Collaboration

Funded by the Council of Graduate Schools

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Assessment Modules

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https://pfls.uncg.edu/

Online Course Modules: “Focusing on Assessment of Student Learning”

• Module 1: Principles and Purposes of Assessment

• Module 2: Designing Effective Assessment

• Module 3: Applying Tools in Differing Contexts

• Module 4: Using Assessment Data for Continuous Improvement

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PFL Project Structure

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ASSESSMENT MODULES PRODUCTION COMMITTEE

8 Members (administrators / faculty)

RESOURCE AFFILIATESRepresentatives from

relevant units to address campus issues for each institution and across

institutions

ADMINISTRATIVE / LOGISTICS TEAM

5 Members: Dean and Assoc./Assistant Dean from each institution plus a PFL

Program Coordinator

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Administrative / Logistics Team plus 11 additional members

(administrators / faculty)

SUPPORT FROM SENIOR ADMINISTRATION

Provost, UNCGProvost, NC A&T

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PFL Project Partnerships

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ADMINISTRATIVE / LOGISTICS TEAM:

• Graduate Dean, UNCG• Associate Dean, UNCG• Graduate Dean, NC A&T• Assistant Dean, NC A&T• Preparing Future Leaders (PFL)

Coordinator

ADVISORY COMMITTEE:• All members of the Administrative / Logistics

Team • Director, Institutional Research, NC A&T• Director, Faculty Teaching and Learning

Commons, UNCG• Director, Academy for Teaching and Learning,

NC A&T• Director, Office of Assessment &

Accreditation, UNCG• Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Studies,

UNCG• Associate Dean and Professor, School of

Education, UNCG• Chair of Mathematics, NC A&T• Faculty Member in Physics, UNCG• Faculty Member in Physics, UNCG• Faculty Member in Mathematics, UNCG• Principal Investigator for Project ENRICH

(DOE-funded project)

ASSESSMENT MODULES PRODUCTION COMMITTEE:

• Dean, Division of Continual Learning, UNCG

• Director, Academy for Teaching and Learning, NC A&T

• Faculty Member in Biology, UNCG• Faculty Member in Marketing,

Entrepreneurship, Hospitality and Tourism, UNCG

• Faculty Member in History, UNCG• Faculty Member in Agribusiness, NC

A&T • Course Designer, Division of Continual

Learning, UNCG • Graduate Student in Mathematics,

UNCG

• Sustainability• Expanded pool of resources• Ability to take advantage of

mutual strengths and fill respective gaps/needs

• Create a larger community of graduate scholars

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Benefits Challenges

Partnerships: Benefits and Challenges

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• Navigating different internal systems and processes

• Ensuring consistent experiences for students/participants at each institution

• Logistics

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Questions?

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Thank you.

ASSESSMENT AS PLANNING & PEDAGOGY

Anne Zanzucchi and Mark Grimes

CGS Grant Project Team

A collaboration between • Graduate Division

• Center for Research on Teaching Excellence

• Office of Institutional Assessment

• Merritt Writing Program

Overarching Goal

Prepare future faculty to engage in assessment as planning and pedagogy

• course• program• institution (general education)

Project OutcomesGraduate Student Participants:

Engage in backward design to plan outcomes-oriented instruction, with a focus on the needs of diverse, at-risk undergraduates.

Start with the outcomes

Evidence of learning

TeachAssess learning

Evaluate learning

Key Certificate Activities

Semester

• Weekly meetings - discuss teaching and student learning in your classroom

• Weekly teaching plans and related reflections

3) Final products: a. Lesson plans and related materials (what you did in your classroom this semester)b. Final reflective teaching and learning essay for public posting (what you learned)

1) Pre-semester: Draft the lesson plan for first day of class & needs assessment

2) Semester

Value-Added • Strengthens undergraduate learning

• Extends faculty mentoring roles to teaching and learning

• Connects courses with discipline (program) and institutional student learning goals

Future Faculty Findings• 100% developed and implemented all elements

of semester long project, including final essay

• A majority of graduate students struggled with outcomes-based lesson planning; sustained feedback and mentoring is critical

Future Faculty Findings• 100% of graduate participants report project

has impacted their approach to instruction

• 62% reported increased intentionality to their instruction

• 75% of graduate participants reported that the project has influenced their own graduate research activities

Challenges • Sustainability

• Format

• Expertise

• Incentives

Graduate Assessment Planning Evaluation

Process and Outcome Metacognition

Design Sustainability Effectiveness and Efficiency

Training – Potential Graduate Intern

Program TheoryInput Activities Output Outcomes

Collaborative Cross-Campus Team of Facilitators- Planning - Development - Participation

Weekly MeetingsLearn, Design, and Build - Backward Design- Lesson Plans- Midterm Eval- Signature Assignment

Weekly Reflection

-Attendance- Engaged Participation- Build Community of Practice- Completion of Assignments

- Completion of lesson plans- Creation of Midterm Eval- Self-Reflection- Completion of semester project

Participants- Change in Approach- Intentionality- Influenced grad research

Broader Impact- Undergrad Learning- Faculty Mentoring - Connections – Program and Institution

Implementation Objectives

Program Goal: Prepare future faculty to engage in assessment as planning and pedagogy - Course, Program, and Institution (general education)

Actual ProgramInput Activities Output Outcomes

Collaborative Cross-Campus Team of Facilitators- Planning - Development - Participation

Weekly MeetingsLearn, Design, and Build - Backward Design- Lesson Plans- Midterm Eval- Signature Assignment

Weekly Reflection

-100% Attendance- Engaged Participation- Build Community of Practice- Completion of Assignments

- Completion of lesson plans- Creation of Midterm Eval- Self-Reflection- Completion of semester project

Participants- 100% Change in Approach- 62% Intentionality- 75% Influenced grad research

Broader Impact- Undergrad Learning- Faculty Mentoring - Connections – Program and Institution

Implementation Objectives

Program Goal: Prepare future faculty to engage in assessment as planning and pedagogy - Course, Program, and Institution (general education)

Where We Are Now Professional seminar through Graduate Division Advanced internship opportunities with Center for

Engaged Teaching and Learning Alliances for Graduate Education and the

Professoriate grant award (AY 2019-2023)