评估

透明框架

的 NILOA透明度框架 由六个部分组成.

1. 学生学习成果陈述
2. 评估计划
3. 评估资源
4. 目前的评估活动
5. 学生学习的证据
6. 使用学生学习证据

学生学习成果表

“ maintains student learning outcome statements at multiple levels: institutional (for all graduates); programmatic (for all graduates in a specific degree program); and course (for all students who complete a course). Course-level outcomes are 列表ed on each course syllabus. 机构 outcome statements and programmatic outcome statements are available in the 目录.

评估计划

“ 维护一个 列表 of 评估 instruments/approaches currently in use. 的 列表 categorizes 评估s at the institutional, division/program and course levels as either direct or indirect.

Direct measures require students to demonstrate the knowledge, skill or disposition that is being assessed. So a direct measure of math would include, say, addition problems.

Indirect measures focus on things related to the knowledge, skill or disposition being assessed. So an indirect measure of math might ask students to rate their own math ability on a 5-point 的规模, or to write a paragraph about what they have learned in math over the semester.

评估资源

如果你不熟悉 评估，您可能会发现这个简短的概述很有帮助.

评估 学生的学习 means what it sounds like: are a college’s classes and degree programs effectively helping students learn and develop? This is an important question for students and 父母, because it is another way of asking, “Is my investment in a college education meaningful? 我从我的大学经历中获益了吗?“当然可以。, t在这里 are lots of individual benefits from college – things like new friendships, 教师和员工的指导, 文化体验, perhaps even meeting a spouse – that don’t get included in 评估 学生的学习. 但学生的学习仍然很重要! “ is committed to transparency in our 评估 学生的学习. This is demonstrated by our use of the transparency framework developed by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes 评估 (NILOA), a leading organization in student-learning accountability. Visit our student learning 页面 to explore “’s student-learning 评估 program and results.

评估 of institutional 有效性 has to do with how well a college is functioning. Are offices effectively accomplishing their tasks? 是否提供服务? 在适当的有意义的方式?

是什么 评估?

评估 uses tools to measure something in light of an established standard or goal.

工具包括测试, 调查, 库存, 检查清单, anecdotes and 更多的: these make up the toolbox for measurement, which means quantifying something (it could be behavior, 有效性, 知识或许多其他东西).

Standards and goals need to be established prior to measurement. This gives a sort of “yardstick” that can be used in 评价.

这个词 评估 is also used broadly to include a cycle involving both 评估 and 评价.

什么是评估?

评价 takes the results of 评估 processes and decides how effectively an activity is being done. 因此,在 评估 学生的学习, 评估 results enable us to 评估 how well a class or degree program leads to learning in students.

评价 takes 评估 results and uses them to make a qualitative judgment.

评估周期或循环

In discussions of 评估, you may often hear talk about “closing the loop.“这是什么循环?

的 cycle starts with program implementation – teaching a class, 提供学位课程, 经营办公室, 等.

在实现之后(或期间), 评估发生了(记住, this means measuring something for which goals have already been established).

Once 评估 results are available (and typically after implementation has concluded an iteration or phase), results are used to make an 评价 about how effective the implementation was. 什么是好的?? 可以改进的地方?

基于 评价, revisions may be made to the program (course, office, 等.). 然后, implementation occurs again – and this allows new 评估, which can show if t在这里 have been changes from the revisions. 的 revision and reimplementation steps are often called “closing the loop.”

评估工具

This section focuses on providing resources to staff and faculty.

不幸的是, most attention is paid to the academic side of 评估, so no links 在这里 are provided to resources related to assessing institutional 有效性 other than this one: the 专业及组织发展 (POD) Network maintains useful resources, especially their very active email 列表. Questions in that area may be directed to the Director of IR.

“真实评估”资源

• 真实评估工具箱 (Jon Mueller)
• 重大事件问卷 (斯蒂芬·布鲁克菲尔德)
• 网站 海伦·巴雷特, 投资组合 专家

一般

• 评估及准则 (Kathy施洛克)
• 《bte365》:包括评估部分
• 资源收集 (爱荷华州立大学)
• 评估共用 (北卡罗莱纳州立大学)
• 数字时代的有效评估 (JISC)
• SALG: structured 调查 to gauge student learning
• 写作的结果 (莱斯利·威尔逊)

评估准则

• 评估及准则 (Kathy施洛克)
• Association for the 评估 of Learning in Higher Education’s rubric samples
• 价值评估准则 (AAC格式&U)

传统的评估

• 考试设计  (University of Texas at Austin – 教师 Innovation Center)
• 测试工程 (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
• 使用多项选择题 造型的 (Edutopia)
• 问题类型 (University of Texas at Austin – 教师 Innovation Center)
• 设计选择题 滑铁卢大学 Cenetre 卓越教学奖)

目前的评估活动

上市活动 在这里 are used regularly, with some rotation cycles. Typically seniors complete the same 评估s they took as freshmen, 支持纵向分析.

学生学习的证据

Developing evidence 学生的学习 is an ongoing activity at “. 请参阅以下报告:

• 2023年秋季
• 2023年春季 (通识教育)
• 2022年秋季
• 2022年春季 (通识教育)
• 2021年秋季
• 2020年秋季

Additional 评估 information is available on our 学校统计 页面.

使用学生学习证据

“定期收集 例子 基于评估结果的变更. Typically these results feed into course, program and institutional reviews of 有效性. 的y may drive change at any of these levels (e.g., different textbooks or assignments, revisions of required courses, 等.).