This document discusses building and sustaining a culture of assessment in instruction programs. It defines a culture of assessment as one where assessment is a normal part of practice, done for the right reasons like improving teaching and learning. Building such a culture requires administrative support, resources for staff education and time, and using assessment results to make changes. It also requires addressing staff concerns and overcoming resistance to change. The document provides strategies for implementing assessment at the grassroots level and establishing assessment practices as a core part of the organizational culture.
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As we wrap things up, we'll present our future plans for the course as well as applications for these ideas in your own courses. We'll also share our thoughts regarding the ultimate Moodle "wizard" and take any ideas you can offer to make it better!
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The conference demonstrated the value of the library to the university community as You’re in Good Company will be in its third year and appears to be filling a void to further research skills, discovery of Humanities resources, and awareness of new technologies. We will also share our developing body of conference video and audio recordings. Finally, we will present recommendations to assist other librarians interested in developing a similar conference.
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It all started with an idea to create a "wizard" for Moodle, a built-in support system designed to help teachers progress beyond resources, forums, and assignments. It turned into an opportunity to explore the boundaries of our Moodle expertise and the limits of Moodle's capabilities.
During this session we'll take you on a guided tour of our "Becoming a Moodle Wizard" course, the prototype for our "wizard" idea. We'll demonstrate how we've combined lessons, conditional activities, and the progress bar plug-in to create a personalized, adaptive experience for those looking to expand their Moodle skills. Then we'll take you behind the scenes where we'll discuss the design and show you how it all works.
As we wrap things up, we'll present our future plans for the course as well as applications for these ideas in your own courses. We'll also share our thoughts regarding the ultimate Moodle "wizard" and take any ideas you can offer to make it better!
Presentation from the RethinkIt Conference Jan 2018
https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/studio
https://rethinkitlibrariesforanewag2018.sched.com/event/CynO/breakout-session-1a-transforming-physical-library-spaces-and-places
The Participation Forum and Participation Map are open-source projects to create custom plugins for the Moodle LMS designed to create highly effective collaborative environments to support the social construction of knowledge. The PartForum sets up "semi-private" group areas, gives structured task details, and automatically awards points based on student contributions. The PartMap is a learning analytic which creates a "data portrait" describing student activity on discussion forums (both native Moodle forums and the PartForums), including both quantitative statistics and a qualitative visual map of the discussion progress.
In 2014, librarians at Washington University in St. Louis developed an annual research conference for advanced graduate students in the Humanities. This conference was inspired by the desire to connect to graduate students at the dissertation stage as librarians had observed a gap in librarian-graduate student interactions between the first years of graduate school and when students embark on their own dissertation research. Librarians discovered that graduate students often struggle in isolation with similar research questions as well as project management and dissertation writing; thus, we aptly entitled the conference “You’re in Good Company: A Mini-Conference for Advanced Graduate Students in the Humanities.” We will share the make-up of the conference, gathering input on session offerings, funding considerations, marketing, assessment, and administrative needs.
Our presentation will focus in part on the variety of sessions we have been able to offer and our collaborations with faculty and other campus partners. Sessions included not only advanced research skills but also hands-on workshops for technologies such as Zotero, Scrivener, and mobile apps. Faculty presented sessions about dissertation writing, time management strategies, tips for getting published and funded, as well as their own personal experiences.
The conference demonstrated the value of the library to the university community as You’re in Good Company will be in its third year and appears to be filling a void to further research skills, discovery of Humanities resources, and awareness of new technologies. We will also share our developing body of conference video and audio recordings. Finally, we will present recommendations to assist other librarians interested in developing a similar conference.
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Building and Sustaining a Culture of Assessment at Your Library
1. BUILDING AND SUSTAINING A
CULTURE OF ASSESSMENT IN
YOUR INSTRUCTION PROGRAM
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MEREDITH FARKAS
2. WHAT IS A CULTURE OF
ASSESSMENT?
• Assessment is the norm
• Doing it for the right reasons
• Customer-service focused
• Culture of learning, curiosity
• Decisions based on data
• New initiatives tied to performance
measures
• Changes based on what is learned
3. WHY BUILD A CULTURE
OF ASSESSMENT?
• Be better teachers
• Make better decisions
• Demonstrate value to ourselves and others
• Use data to advocate for the library
• Use data to grow the IL program
• Hold ourselves to the same standards as
any other academic department
• Accreditation
6. ASSESSMENT AT MANY
INSTITUTIONS
• Focused on doing what is needed for
accreditation
• Coercive and top-down
• Little support
• Coalition of the willing
• Data is gathered, but rarely used
• Not seen as an integral part of teaching
and learning
• Often a lot of cynicism around assessment
8. “For
a
scholarship
of
assessment
to
thrive,
we
must
align
faculty
culture,
institutional
structures,
and
leadership
for
change.
The
importance
of
this
point
cannot
be
overstated.
A
meaningful
assessment
program
is
more
than
just
a
new
activity
to
be
undertaken,
it
is
a
change
in
how
we
think
about
what
we
do
in
higher
education.”
Don
Haviland.
(2009).
“Leading
Assessment:
From
Faculty
Reluctance
to
Faculty
Engagement.”
Academic
Leadership
9(2).
9.
10. I G N O R E C U LT U R E AT Y O U R O W N P E R I L
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11. Shared history
Behavior
Assumptions
Response to conflict Values
ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE
How thing get done
Goals
Beliefs
Practices
Power structures
Response to change
Fears
12. ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE ASSESSMENT
INSTRUMENT (OCAI)
Cameron, K. S., & Quinn, R. E. (1999). Diagnosing and changing
organizational culture.
13. NECESSARY CULTURAL
TRAITS
• Trusting
• Positive/optimistic
• Adaptive
• Tolerance for the unknown
• Open communications
• People feel safe experimenting
• Customer services focus
• Learning culture
14. AND IF THIS DOESN’T
DESCRIBE THE CULTURE
AT YOUR LIBRARY...
16. ADMINISTRATION
WALKS THE TALK
• Value assessment and articulates why we
are doing this
• Promote assessment
• Built into planning
• Built into reward structures
• Support library faculty/staff engaging in
assessment
• Use assessment
• Let library faculty/staff drive the bus
18. SHOW ME THE MONEY!
• (Release) time to learn, develop, conduct
and analyze
• Building expertise in assessment
• Incentives, grants, awards
• Professional development
• Technologies for collecting, analyzing and
retrieving data
19. EDUCATION
• Most librarians don’t have training in
assessment of IL instruction
• Need to speak a common language
• Need to be able to develop assessment
tools and analyze results
20. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR
ASSESSMENT RESULTS?
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21. HOW YOU USE THEM
MATTERS
• Results are easy to get
• Results are shared
• Results are used to make changes and
decisions
• Results are discussed
• Results are shared outside of the library
22. WHY DON’T LIBRARIANS USE
THEIR ASSESSMENT RESULTS?
• Too busy with other work
• Won’t be rewarded for assessment work
• Don’t know how to use/analyze data
• Lack of centralized support in library
• Not valued by their library
Oakleaf and Hinchliffe. (2008). “Assessment Cycle or Circular
File: Do Academic Librarians Use Information Literacy
Assessment Data?” Proceedings of the 2008 Library Assessment
Conference.
23. GRASSROOTS SUPPORT
• Empowered to develop assessment plan
and practices
• Shared vision
• See how assessment benefits them (and
won’t hurt them)
• TIME
• Faculty/staff are motivated to learn from
each other
24. COMMON STAFF/
FACULTY CONCERNS
• Assessment imperative coming from the
outside
• Faculty don’t believe assessment is about
student learning
• Afraid of negative consequences for bad
assessment results
• Time constraints
• Loss of control
• Uncertainty of how the info will be used
26. CREATE A SENSE OF URGENCY;
OR WHY WE STILL NEED LEADERS
• Ideal leaders
• Have operational and political knowledge
• Build trust
• Don’t try to be the expert
• Are transparent
• Aren’t afraid of conflict or dealing with
difficult situations
• Lead by example
• Patient - change takes a long time
27. FORM A GUIDING COALITION AND
VISION
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31. NO, YOU’RE NOT DONE
YET
• Build on the change
• Remove any barriers discovered during
the initial phases
• Tackle bigger/more difficult assessment
projects
• Develop an assessment plan
• Reward great assessment work
32. ANCHOR CHANGES IN
THE CULTURE
• Build assessment into P&T/review
processes
• Make learning and sharing together part
of “what we do”
• Create systems for indoctrinating new
hires
• Decision-making and planning is based
on assessment
33. SUPPORTING
ASSESSMENT
• Provide plenty of education for faculty/
staff
• Make sure there are no consequences for
poor results
• Build incentives for doing assessment
• Focus on student learning
• Give people time to reflect on their
assessment results and improve their
teaching
34. SUPPORTING
ASSESSMENT
• Develop a common language for talking
about assessment
• Develop common learning outcomes for
your instruction program
• Let faculty develop their own assessment
instruments
• Meet often to discuss what you’re learning
from assessment
35. RESOURCES: LIBRARIES
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Research Strategies 20 (4): 506-515.
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Shepstone, Carol, and Lyn Currie. 2008. “Transforming the Academic Library: Creating an Organizational Culture that Fosters
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36. RESOURCES: HIGHER
EDUCATION
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Assessment: One University’s Experience.” Assessment Update 20 (6): 5-9.
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37. RESOURCES: BUSINESS AND
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38. Questions?
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