Academy for Assessment of Educational Goals and Student Learning

AUDIENCE: Senior academic administrators (deans, associate deans, chairs, directors), faculty teaching fellows, faculty members, staff involved in the implementation of educational goals

COST: No cost

Program description

The Academy is designed to support the assessment of educational goals as part of the external review of academic units at SFU. It will assist those involved in the process of validating student learning at the program and/or institutional level. The Academy will be interactive, and participants will engage with their colleagues in applying the principles that will be discussed. Each day of the Academy will build on the work of the previous day. The first two days will emphasize tools and methods that can be used to efficiently and effectively produce evidence of student learning and to identify areas where programs can be enhanced. Emphasis will be placed on how classroom assessment can produce data that can be used at the program and/or institutional level. Participants will engage in writing measurable learning statements, mapping curricula, reviewing different types of scoring rubrics, choosing assessment methods, preparing meaningful reports, and using data to support decision making. Examples, tools and reference materials will be provided.

The third day of the Academy will provide a time to answer questions that remain about the educational goals and student assessment process and clarify any points that have been made. There will be facilitated discussions about engaging faculty in the process, getting support from leadership, facilitation tools, and decision-making techniques.

The Academy will be led by Dr. Gloria Rogers, who presented the keynote address at this year's Symposium on Teaching and Learning. See her biography below.

Facilitator

Dr. Gloria Rogers, Senior Scholar, Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Dr. Gloria Rogers is currently serving as a Senior Scholar for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), one of six regional accreditors of degree-granting post-secondary educational institutions in the United States. In this role she is a mentor for institutions participating in the HLC-facilitated Academy for Assessment of Student Learning and is the external evaluator on an HLC project funded by the Lumina Foundation for Education to explore the use of the Degree Qualifications Profile. In addition, she is presently teaching in the graduate program at Indiana State University.

Rogers has served as managing director for Professional Services at ABET, Inc.; senior educational manager for Optimal Global Solutions; and vice-president of institutional research, planning and assessment at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. During this time, she has been providing workshops, webinars, seminars, and institutes for the development of continuous quality improvement of educational programs and institutional effectiveness related to strategic planning for the past two decades. She has been an external evaluator for major science, math, engineering, and technology initiatives and has served on advisory committees and been a member of numerous review panels for the National Science Foundation. She has served as a reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Scholars program and has been a special editor for two issues of the International Journal of Engineering Education.

Rogers has organized fourteen symposia on program assessment and accreditation that have been attended by faculty from 500 institutions around the world. In addition, she has authored 35 assessment-related articles, given over 100 invited presentations at national and international conferences, and facilitated workshops/seminars at over 75 campuses. In addition to her local and national involvement in assessment and educational reform, she has given invited presentations, consultations, and workshops in 28 countries, including a Fulbright Senior Scholar assignment in Lima, Peru. In 2008 she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education for her contributions to the engineering education profession.