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- 1. #NASPA16@NASPAtweets Shifting the Focus: Integrating Formative Assessment Methods in Student Affairs Douglas Sweet, University at Albany Erin Twomey, Quinnipiac University Jess Kitt, Campus Labs
- 2. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Agenda • Who we are • What is Formative Assessment • Stories of Formative Assessment -University at Albany, Douglas Sweet -Quinnipiac University, Erin Twomey • Question and Answer
- 3. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Download the app Campus Labs Respond on your phone or tablet, or visit: https://srs.campuslabs.com
- 4. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 “All those activities undertaken by teachers and/or by their students, which provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged.” Black, P and D. William. (1998). Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment. Phi Delta Kappan 92 (1): 81-90.
- 5. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Assessment Types Formative Conducted during the program Monitor student learning Provide feedback Pop quiz End of workshop reflection Muddiest Point Assessing prior knowledge
- 6. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Assessment Types Summative Conducted after the program Evaluate student learning Makes judgment on quality, worth, or compares to standard Can be incorporated into future plans Final exam Behind close doors Survey Reflection Paper Exit interview
- 8. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 WHY USE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT?
- 9. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Frequent and periodic pauses for assessment and feedback improve motivation (Becker and Devine 2007) as well as attention and comprehension (Bligh 2000). -Vincent Tinto, Completing College Rethinking Institutional Action
- 11. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Download the app Campus Labs Respond on your phone or tablet, or visit: https://srs.campuslabs.com
- 12. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 University at Albany: Institutional Facts • Public, Research University • 17,000 Students (12,000 UG; 5,000 G) • Division of Student Affairs: – 17 Divisional Units – 900 Student & Professional Employees
- 13. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 How are we preparing first-year students for college life during orientation? How are we training, evaluating, and retaining our student employees? How are we improving the student experience? Formative Assessment: BIGGER Picture Using data to inform the student experience:
- 14. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Divisional assessment efforts began in 2007 Assessment Council Student Learning Project Assessment Framework/Learning Domains Campus Labs: Baseline Compliance Assist CollegiateLink Student Learning and Assessment:
- 15. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Assessment Champion Assessment Council: Sub-Committee devoted to the Student Employee Experience Institutional-Wide focus on Improving the Student Experience Divisional Strategic Plan Implementation of Strategies:
- 16. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Challenges: Time, Time, & Time! Scary!
- 17. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Great Dane Welcome Survey (6-Week Experience Survey) Student Employee Evaluation and Reflection Pathways to Success program Underinvolved Student Focus Groups Successes and UAlbany Examples:
- 18. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Intercultural Student Engagement – Identity Wheel Career and Professional Development – FOCUS 2 Orientation Reflections: Enhancing the Student Employee Experience: Divisional student employee rubric
- 19. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 • Private, mid-size institution • 6,500 undergrads/2,500 grads • 58 undergrad majors, 20 graduate & professional programs • 3 campuses • Division I athletics • Division of Student Affairs is comprised of 9 offices • Several have 2 or less administrators • Learning Paradigm institution • Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs)
- 21. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Formative Assessment at QU • Creation of Student Affairs Divisional Assessment Committee (Assessment Committee) – Fall 2010 • Training/workshops for Assessment Committee • Campus Labs University – Baseline – Collegiate Link (Do You QU) • Division-wide training – Bootcamp – Baseline
- 22. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Implementation of Strategies • Student Affairs Focus Group – Fall 2011 • Bootcamp – July 2014 • Co-Curricular Assessment Hallmark Programs • Work Smarter, Not Harder
- 23. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Challenges UNIVERSITY • Does the data fit the need when the landscape is constantly changing? • Meaningful, appropriate, timely dissemination of data • Support for initiatives based on data • Limitations on progress due to resources DIVISION • Streamlining data between departments • Assessment model that work for all offices • On-boarding staff (student affairs vs. service) • Continuous education • Limitations on progress due to resources
- 24. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Successes • Student Leader trainings • Welcome Weekend • Student Government Association’s Tuesday’s Two • Resident Assistant pre-post policy test • Alternative Break Trip reflections • Bi-annual Student Conduct Survey • Campus Life Student Learning Event Assessment • Co-Curricular Assessment • Strong template for assessment work • Board of Trustees’ presentation
- 26. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Erin Twomey: erin.twomey@Quinnipiac.edu Douglas Sweet: dsweet@Albany.edu Jess Kitt: jkitt@campuslabs.com
- 27. @NASPAtweets #NASPA16 Resources •Banta, Trudy W. and associates (2002). Building a Scholarship of Assessment. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. •Black, P., and Wiliam, D. (1998a). Assessment and classroom learning. Assessment in Education, 5 (1): 7-74. •Black, P and D. William. (1998b). Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment. Phi Delta Kappan 92 (1): 81-90. •Sadler, D.R. (1989). Formative assessment and the design of instructional systems. Instructional Science, 18 (2): 119- 144. • Tinto, Vincent (2012. Completing College Rethinking Institutional Action. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.