Presented by: Courtney Doyle Chambers, Cengage Learning How can you successfully measure learning? This webinar will discuss this concern and functionality that exists to help you measure learning outcomes for your class and institution.

1. Building a ThinkNation
Learning Assessment

2. Guest Speakers
Stacy Holliday, Davidson County Community College
TeamUP Professional Educator, Cengage Learning
Greg Dixon, University of West Georgia
MindTap Technology Power User, Cengage Learning

3. Agenda
• How to make assessment meaningful
• Implementation examples
• Leveraging MindTap
• Q&A

4. Take a Moment to Answer this Poll

6. What’s in a #?
The national college completion rates are:
55.6 % graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in 6 years
29.2 % graduate with an Associate’s degree in 3
years
The completion rate for (Faculty Name) is _____

7. What does assessment mean?

8. What is Assessment?
Assessment is the process of gathering and discussing information
from multiple and diverse sources in order to develop a deep
understanding of what students know, understand, and can do with
their knowledge as a result of their educational experiences
(Huba and Freed 2000)
Assessment is the ongoing process of:
– Systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence
to determine how well student learning matches our
expectations
– Using the resulting information to understand and improve
subsequent student learning.
(Suskie 2009)

10. Closing the Loop

11. What do we want our students to know and be able to do?
Goals, outcomes, objectives
Based on our review of the information, what
changes/suggestions/tweaks would we recommend?
“Closing the loop”
The aim of assessment is action.
(Walvoord, 2010)

12. Assessment can…
Help with planning
Identify strengths and weaknesses
Highlight what’s important
Identify gaps in understanding
Help instructors teach and students learn
Determine whether desired outcomes have been achieved

13. Knowledge is Power

14. Analytics
Know…
 Time in Course
 Completion
 Engagement

15. Measuring Engagement
Examples:
 logs into MindTap
 time active in Mindtap
 Number of takes: assessment or homework activity
 accesses reading activities
 note or a highlight in a reading activity
 views a glossary term in a reading activity
 accesses flashcards
 accesses videos or other presentation material
 runs a search

16. “Who’s at risk?”
“Where is the class
having trouble?”
“Where do I stand?”
“How do I compare
to my classmates?”
What can I do
differently?

17. Know where students
are spending time…
and not.

18. How are students
tracking… who are
the outliers?

19. Where do they
stand… individually
and compared to
highest performers.

21. Gradebook

22. NEW Gradebook
Phased release June 10-July 15
Export Grades with
Analytics Data

23. Thank You!
Questions & Comments