Harnessing Outcomes Assessment to Serve Student, Faculty and their Institutions

“Man and the Machine: Bridging Humanities and Technology – A Teaching/Learning Student-

Centered Assessment Model

Presenters:

Susan Apshaga, Debra Lilli, Carol Panaccione

Community College of Rhode Island

May 17, 2002

Course Goals

• To develop students’ analytical skills with regard to an aesthetic work

• To improve students’ written communication skills

• To improve students’ oral communication skills

Goals continued

• To improve students’ critical reading and thinking skills

• To improve students’ collaboration skills

• To improve students’ technological competency via WebCT

• To improve students’ research skills

MAN AND THE MACHINEBridging Humanities and Technology

This is what we aim to combat:

“When schools open this fall, the overwhelming majority of students across the country will file into ordered rows, pick up their books, and face their teachers. They will be taught in one subject and then move on to the next, in a recurring pattern of teacher led instruction and assessment. This approach - seated in rows, quietly and passively receiving knowledge - is called the cemetery model.” - Roland Tharp

Man and the Machine: A Teaching/Learning Student-Centered

Assessment Model

A. Learning Outcomes

B. Course Evaluation

C. Quantitative/Qualititative Measures

A. LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Web-CT Bulletins

- Electronic Portfolio

- Group Discussion

- Group Brainstorming

B. COURSE EVALUATION

- Students’ Assessment of Course

- Students’ Metacognitive Assessment

- Teaching Assistants’ Assessment

- Faculty Assessment

C. Quantitative/Qualitative Measures

- Case Studies—Anecdotal

- Pre- and Post- Writing Placement Tests

Responses from our Student Assessment

Questionnaire

“It did help to improve collaboration skills with both

students and faculty. I think that this course helped us become a

freer thinker.”

Did the course help to improve your collaboration skills with your fellow

students and/or faculty?

In what way did the seminar atmosphere add to or detract from your experience?

Seminar atmosphere was great. Our schools need more of that. Lectures, lectures,

lectures! That’s all we normally get, but who can seriously pay attention and intake

information for two hours!

Man and the Machine