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Assessment Loop Form

Assessment Loop Forms:What Did We Learn?Where Do We Go?

Assessment Loop Form (ALF) Background Accreditation

recommendation

Institution-program-classroom assessment ALF = classroom

component

ALF documents what faculty are already doing

+ALF Purposes

Help faculty track student learning

Help faculty see what others are doing

Data archived for accreditation

Data archived for program review

Other?

ALF: What Did We Learn?

Faculty are assessing all the time

Faculty care about learners and want to help them

Assessment can be messy

+ALF Components

Outcome

Assessment

Change/Intervention

Impact of Change/Intervention

Reflections

New Questions

+ALF: Outcome

What is a learning outcome?

+ALF: Outcome Analysis

~35% of ALFs included one learner-centered outcome

~15% of ALFs included more than one outcome Are we overachievers? Multi-taskers? Do we

lack assessment experience? Is the ALF difficult to understand?

~20% of ALFs were written with teacher-centered rather than learner-centered language

+ALF: Assessment

What are we measuring?

+ALF: Assessment Analysis

Over 90% of ALF assessments related to: Student performance (exams, quizzes, class

projects, etc.) Student feedback (questions, comments,

student evaluations, blank stares, etc.) Student behavior

(engagement/participation, work completion, etc.)

ALF: Change

Based on assessment of learning, faculty introduce a change/intervention to improve student learning

+ALF: Change Analysis

Predictably, changes are specific to classes

Common themes, however, exist

ALF: Change Analysis

Type of Change Percentage of ALFs

Addition of instructional component

40%

New activity 25%

Revision of already-existing activity

25%

Change not aligned with classroom evidence

10%

+ALF: Impact

Faculty were to reassess students to determine impact of change on learning

Like initial assessment, majority of ALFs included language relating to student performance, feedback, and behavior

ALF: Impact Analysis

Component assessed Percentage of ALFs

Student behavior 45%

Student performance 40%

Student feedback 15%

+ALF: Unexpected Impact Findings

~15% of ALFs included word “might” to reference student behavior, performance, feedback

~15% of ALFs included language like “seemed” and “understood” without evidence to back up findings

Assessment, Evidence, Impact Connections

+ALF: Reflections

Because of private nature of ALF component, comments were more diverse ~28% indicated contentment with

results/student success ~11% mentioned an unexpected occurrence ~8% iterated the need to help students

succeed ~8% reported assessment being worth the

effort

+ALF: Common Themes Among Reflections

Students actively participating in the classroom learning experience is important

Making connections between classroom and “real life” experiences is important

+ALF: New Questions

Faculty interested in pursuing assessment in their classrooms ~34% want to continue to re-develop, re-

time, and/or expand ALF activity ~20% intend to repeat, or will consider

repeating, ALF activities in future classes ~11% intend to repeat, or will consider

repeating, ALF activity in other parts of class ~7.5% will continue to help improve student

success

ALF: What the Fig?

ALF = opportunity for individual to pursue answers to learning questions

Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIGs) = opportunity for groups to pursue answers to learning questions

Five-Minute Water Cooler Activity

Small group Create one learner-

centered outcome for chosen discipline

Identify evidence needed to assess outcome

ALF: Where Do We Go?

New Form Online Instructions

shortened Drop-down menus,

checkboxes Text boxes ELOs added Samples can be

attached ALF can be saved!

+ALF: Where Do We Go?

There will be ALF training in the TLC

Contact Trish Root for individualized helpX4593 troot@sccd.ctc.edu

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ALF: What Can We Do Better?

+Thank You…

Assessment Committee

Jack Bautsch

Sam Bayne

Betsy Campbell

Lori Casile

Noris Daniel

Davene Eyres

Faculty Leadership Community

Boyd Gittins

Jane Lister-Reis

Mary Ellen O’Keeffe

Brian Palmer