Timothy S Brophy Director of Institutional Assessment M David Miller Chair General Education Assessment University of Florida Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education Conference Salt Lake City June 2018 ID: 830481
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Closing the Loop in General Education: Adapting Current Models to New Accreditation Standards
Timothy S. Brophy, Director of Institutional Assessment
M. David Miller, Chair, General Education Assessment
University of Florida
Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education Conference, Salt Lake City, June, 2018
Slide2Let’s talk about you and your institution
General Education on your campus:
Your institution
Who oversees it?
Slide3University of Florida
Land Grant, Research Intensive, AAU Institution
55, 862 students (2017)
36,366 Undergraduates (2017)
16 Colleges – 10 colleges with general education courses
Main Campus and UF Online
Slide4Florida Requirements for undergraduate programs
Slide5General Education Program Requirements
Slide6Let’s talk about you and your institution
General Education on your campus:
What external regulations must you accommodate?
Slide7UF Institutional Assessment and Effectiveness Cycle
Institutional Effectiveness
Assessment
Slide8University of Florida General Education Assessment CYCLE
General Education and Academic Assessment Committees review and approve the measures
SLO Categories: Content, Critical Thinking, and Communication
New SACSCOC standard
8.2b
Slide9Let’s talk about you and your institution
General Education on your campus:
How do you assess student learning in general education?
Slide10Assessment Input
Dr. Brophy and Academic Assessment Committee conducted focus groups on assessment at UF – Major Findings included
Faculty sent in data but did not receive anything back
Faculty were not sure how to use data
Recent Changes in SACSCOC require programs report how data is used for program improvement
Consequently – Developed Visualization that is being piloted with General Education and other UF programs
Slide11Direct Assessment: Visualization
Slide12General Education Effectiveness
Slide13Indirect Assessment: SERU (2015)
Contribution of courses to your:
Percent responding Significantly or Extremely
Gen Ed
Other
Critical Thinking
25
35
Clear and effective writing
34
32
Appreciate, tolerate and understand racial and ethnic
diversity
36
26
Read and comprehend academic material
32
28
Quantitative skills
32
68
Speak clearly
and effectively
47
36
Understand international perspectives
57
48
Appreciate fine arts
33
40
Appreciate cultural
and global diversity
25
37
Slide14Accreditation and Triangulation
Slide15Our Next StepS
Slide16Follow-up Procedures to Include
Item analyses – Reviewing Specific skills and items to better understand what students do best and still have trouble
Incorporating other data into decisions – other
measures of learning, student reactions and opinions
Reviewing the curriculum and its relationship to the data
Is instructor training needed to align teaching, curriculum and assessment
Slide17Follow-up Procedures to Include
Is the measurement adequate or are changes needed?
(item statistics or overall reliability and validity
)
Review SLOs and performance standards and expectations
Consider
subpopulation differences
Consider prerequisites
Slide18New Program in Development: QUEST
Quest Model
Slide19Let’s talk about you and your institution
General Education on your campus:
What
activities and methods are being used at your institution to close the loop?
Slide20Questions?