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Degree Program Assessment: Why We CareImproving teaching and learning.Screwing accreditation!
Outcomes
Introduce Degree Program Assessment as a process for continual improvement
Engage one-way of successful method for degree program assessment
assessment is interrogating whether or not we are keeping our promises in teaching and learning
http://www.assessment.uconn.edu/why/index.html
http://www.assessment.uconn.edu/why/index.html
–John Dewey
“Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to
bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.”
M.Div Degree Program Assessment @WTS
Theology
Credo (Senior Theology Thesis)
Formation for Ministry
Case Study from Summer Internship
Exegesis
Old Testament/New Testament 1st year Exegetical Paper
Elements of Assessment• Assessment Dossier
• Student Learning Outcomes• Artifacts• Rubrics• Syllabus for Course (context)
• Process• Reports
• Initial Assessment Team Report• Field Report, “Acting on
Recommendations”• End of Year Report, “Closing the Loop”
• Repeat
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Assessment MapFaculty-wide participation
–From Banta, et. al., in Assessment in practice: Putting principles to work on college campuses
“institutional assessment efforts should not be concerned about valuing what can be
measured but, instead, about measuring that which is valued”
Elements of Assessment
Theology Field
Graduating students will be able to provide a theological summary of their Christian faith and will have a knowledge (both cognitive and experiential) of the global character of the church’s witness.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
What a student is able to do at the end of a degree program
SLO’s emerge from the mission of the school
Elements of Assessment
Theology Field
Credo: Capstone mini-thesis in an upper level required theology course. The Credo serves as preparation for classes exams
Artifacts
The randomly-selected student-produced document or project used to evaluate how students (plural) fulfill the program outcomes
Elements of AssessmentRubrics
A scoring tool that measures the important value-based criteria embedded in the SLOs
Theology Field:Credo
Graduating students will be able to provide a theological summary of their Christian faith and will have a knowledge (both cognitive and experiential) of the global character of the church’s witness.
Theological Coherence and Breadth
Depth of Personal Internalization
Engagement with the global character of the church’s witness
Engagement with one’s own theological tradition
clarity of communication to the specified audience (the local church)
Elements of AssessmentContext of the Artifact: Modern Church History, 3.0 credit hours
This course offers an introduction to modern Christianity via an examination of the main ideas, persons, movements, and institutions that shaped the development of Christianity in America. The approach is historical, beginning with the Christian diaspora from Western Europe in the sixteenth century and following major themes into the twenty-first century.
Assignment Description
Starting in week 2, a weekly reading journal is due, based on the readings for the week. The purpose of the reading journals is for students to engage thoughtfully with the assigned readings in advance of class discussion and to provide a resource as you craft course papers and the final exam. Unless otherwise specified, reading journals are due in hard copy form at the end of the class period. Each journal should run no more than one page, double-spaced, and, with all of the assigned readings for the week in mind, should include the following elements:
1) Write four or five sentences that capture the key point(s) of the assigned readings.
2) List any important figures, events, or dates that you would like to remember.
3) Offer a 140 character summary of the highlighted primary source reading noted for the week. (If you choose to do so, you can also Tweet your summary, using the hashtag, #ch03pts.)
4) In one or two sentences, respond to how the readings connect to overall course themes
Elements of AssessmentProcess
Three Activities
Initial meeting to detail the work
Do the work, alone: read, score, reflect
Follow-up meeting to share findings and learnings
Designate team member to draft report
Elements of AssessmentReports
Four Reports
Initial Assessment Team Report
Assessment Coordinator’s Report (with numbers)
Field Report, “Acting on Recommendations”
End of Year Report, “Closing the Loop” OR
AKA What we did and did not do that we said we would do in the earlier report
Reflection on the Process