The RainKing Chronicles

On Oct 16, 2009 at an OAI staff meeting, this whiteboard image was created to describe our vision of the RainKing Chronicles  The Chronicles were implemented in SharePoint allowing email to be cc:ed to them (an idea we learned from Margo Tamez’ portfolio work). Limitations of SharePoint meant that we needed to go and post-tag items. [...]

Transparency, institutional self-presentation, and public interest

From November/December 2010 Change, “Here’s looking at you:  Transparency, institutional self-presentation, and the public interest” by Alexander C. McCormick (Director of NSSE at Indiana, Bloomington), pp. 35-43.   “But transparency can be about more than consumer information.  It can provide an opportunity for a college or university to proclaim its success while acknowledging that it [...]

Developing WSU’s Guide to Effective Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Rubric

The table below charts the steps that Washington State University’s Office of Assessment and Innovation (OAI) and its stakeholders went through to develop the Guide to Effective Program Assessment rubric used in the WSU System of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment. Description Generalized Model Specific example of application at WSU’s Office of Assessment and Innovation. Determine [...]

WSU System for Student Learning Outcomes Assessement

WSU’s Federated System of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment 2009-10 The WSU system is a federated one, premised on the need for programs to tailor assessment to their particular circumstances and context, yet coordinate with the central effort. The first fruits of the system are in the University’s 2009-10 portfolio of its assessment and accreditation work. [...]

Rubric revision process

With the NWCCU report filed we turned to some assessment of our inter-rater reliability, viewing that as an opportunity to understand what might be differences in our shared understandings. These may be rubric elements or interpretations of rubric language. This google doc is the space where we are looking at that rating data and recording [...]

CHEA 2011 Award Submitted

CHEA 2011 Award Submitted CHEA has an annual awards competition (http://chea.org/2011_CHEA_Award.html ) for innovative assessment efforts. Attached is the WSU 2011 application, submitted last Friday, describing our pilot year of institutional assessment. WSU CHEA 2011 Award Application

Planning the responses to College of Engineering and Architecture

Planning the responses to College of Engineering and Architecture Meeting notes today to organize efforts to send feedback to the college and its programs

Continued work to develop UnivPort website

Here is a calendar of our end of year 2009-10 work to finish reports to NWCCU and discussion around data and representations to get the website developed. —— Forwarded Message From: Nils Peterson Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:20:35 -0700 To: Corinna Lo , Gary Brown , Joshua Yeidel , Peg Collins , Jayme Jacobson [...]

Examining the quality of our assessment system

With most of the 59 programs rated for this round, we are beginning an analysis of our system of assessment. To re-cap, we drafted a rubric about a year ago and tested it with Honors college self-study and a made-up Dept of Rocket Science self-study. We revised the rubric with discussions among staff and some [...]

Calendar for the last month before NWCCU Report

This image shows more details of our understanding of the last 30 days before the NWCCU report on 10.15.2010. A year ago we “guessed” the date at 10.10.10, which still shows in the figure. Late reports have come in around the 9.17 deadline, driven by President/Provost goal of getting to 100% reporting. The report (or [...]