Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide – By Linda Suskie

Kirkpatrick, Shane

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9647.2007.00329.x

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“…Student outcomes include the knowledge, skills, abilities, and habits of mind that students have developed during their learning experiences through a program of study [13]. While program outcomes are broad descriptions of competencies that graduates will possess [14], course outcomes are specific to a class and describe what will be taught and tested during that semester.…”

Section: Canvas Hierarchical Structure and Assessment Architecturementioning

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Exploiting Digital Learning Management System (LMS) Capabilities for Effective Program Assessment of Competency-based Education

Potts,

Jin,

Rabie

2023 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Background: Effective programmatic assessment (PA) is essential for accreditation of professional degree programs leading to licensure. Accreditation organizations for Higher Education Institution (HEI) programs such as the ABET may stipulate student outcomes. Programs seeking accreditation from ABET must present clear proof of a rigorous process that uses student work products to assess student outcomes attained. The value of PA results offers entry points for institutions and/or departments to initiate discussions on the status of student learning and to make informed decisions on program improvements. The concept of PA is well described in the literature; however, studies on implementing and operationalizing a consistent assessment approach using a Learning Management System (LMS) across courses of an academic program are lacking. Best practices on program assessment recommend that numerical scores of student performance should be linked to learning objectives. Few engineering faculties received formal grading training. They tend to rely on historical grading practices, personal experiences as students, or grade student work with a rubric that is disconnected from the learning objectives. Such traditional grading practices tend to mask the various aspects of student learning and therefore lacks the capacity to capture the full breadth of competency-based education. Globally, a high percentage of colleges and universities use a LMS to better manage teaching and learning activities. Despite the significant financial investment in LMS, faculty have not fully exploited its data capture, analytics and visualization capabilities and therefore its utility in support of effective program assessment is mostly underutilized.Objective: This paper seeks to add to the ongoing discussion on effective strategies that improve assessment of student learning in competency-based education. We present a case study to show the data collecting, data analytics and visualization capabilities of the Canvas TM LMS for student outcomes on communications for engineering management and engineering technology programs. In doing so, we address two questions that guided this investigation namely: a) what are the best practices to formulate student assignments given student outcomes for ETAC programs, and b) how to devise and setup up standard rubrics in a LMS for unbiased scoring of student work products.

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Section: Canvas Hierarchical Structure and Assessment Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Exploiting Digital Learning Management System (LMS) Capabilities for Effective Program Assessment of Competency-based Education

Potts,

Jin,

Rabie

2023 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Multiple meta-assessment measures of a quality process: toward institutional effectiveness

Pham

2020

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to share quality process experience from a US comprehensive university to use both direct (participation rate and assessment quality) and indirect assessment measures (assessment survey) to evaluate the quality process. Design/methodology/approach A mixed method design was used to evaluate the quality process. The qualitative design used thematic analysis to find the common themes from the assessment survey. The quantitative design included reliability and internal consistency for the survey and inter-rater reliability for the peer review. Findings Findings indicated that participation rate and assessment quality improved over the years. Faculty provided positive feedback about assessment website, the peer review process and feedback but negative perspectives on the assessment management software and heavy workload on assessment activities. The researcher shared the actions made based on three-year assessment results, especially how leaders have used it to align with planning and budgeting to close the institutional effectiveness loop. Research limitations/implications This research had two limitations. The inter-rater reliability of the peer review was not high and the number of peer review reports in two years were so different, so the results could not be checked for statistical significance. Practical implications The meta-assessment results could have important implications for other universities to improve the quality process. Originality/value There have been limited studies on using both direct and indirect assessment measures to evaluate the quality process. This study uses multiple measures to provide accurate results for administrators’ decision-making in resource allocation.

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Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide – By Linda Suskie

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Exploiting Digital Learning Management System (LMS) Capabilities for Effective Program Assessment of Competency-based Education

Exploiting Digital Learning Management System (LMS) Capabilities for Effective Program Assessment of Competency-based Education

Multiple meta-assessment measures of a quality process: toward institutional effectiveness

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