mindtap thinknation webinar series: assessing learning in higher education

Learning Assessment

Building a ThinkNation

Guest Speakers

Stacy Holliday, Davidson County Community CollegeTeamUP Professional Educator, Cengage Learning

Greg Dixon, University of West Georgia MindTap Technology Power User, Cengage Learning

Agenda

• How to make assessment meaningful• Implementation examples• Leveraging MindTap• Q&A

Take a Moment to Answer this Poll

What’s in a #?

The national college completion rates are:

55.6 % graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in 6 years

29.2 % graduate with an Associate’s degree in 3

years

The completion rate for (Faculty Name) is _____

What does assessment mean?

What is Assessment?

Assessment is the process of gathering and discussing information from multiple and diverse sources in order to develop a deep understanding of what students know, understand, and can do with their knowledge as a result of their educational experiences (Huba and Freed 2000)

Assessment is the ongoing process of:

– Systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches our expectations

– Using the resulting information to understand and improve subsequent student learning.

(Suskie 2009)

Closing the Loop

What do we want our students to know and be able to do?

Goals, outcomes, objectives

Based on our review of the information, what changes/suggestions/tweaks would we recommend?

“Closing the loop”

The aim of assessment is action.

(Walvoord, 2010)

Assessment can…

Knowledge is Power

Know… Time in Course Completion Engagement

Analytics

Examples: logs into MindTap time active in Mindtap Number of takes: assessment or homework activity accesses reading activities note or a highlight in a reading activity views a glossary term in a reading activity accesses flashcards accesses videos or other presentation material runs a search

Measuring Engagement

“Who’s at risk?”

“Where is the class having trouble?”

“Where do I stand?”

“How do I compare to my classmates?”

What can I do differently?

Know where students

are spending time…

and not.

How are students

tracking… who are

the outliers?

Where do they

stand… individually

and compared to

highest performers.

Gradebook

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Export Grades with Analytics Data

Thank You!

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