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 [...]

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

Analysis of Inter-rater agreement 2009-10

Lee, Thanks for telling me that you completed rating Honors also. Our average ratings for that program were 5; 5.5; 4.5; 5  so we are a little lower than you, but in the same category “Integrating” in all but one. You can see all our results here: https://universityportfolio.wsu.edu/2009-2010/Pages/default.aspx We are exploring two measures of inter-rater [...]

Norming and workflow for May 17 self study reviews

Norming and workflow for May 17 self study reviews This is another post linked to the notes for OAI Team in this note  http://communitylearning.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/process-for-creating-may-17-responses-to-programs/ There are three images Results of norming on the Sociology Self-Study from Dec using the May 17 rubric. This chart compares OAI results with the results Gary & Nils brought back [...]

Norming on the Guide to Assessment Rubric

Results of Norming on the Guide to Assessment rubric This image captures the data from OAI’s norming work on the first 2 dimensions of the May 17 Guide to Assessment rubric. The sample being assessed is the Sociology self-study from December 2009. The red data are from Gary & Nils’ presentation to the Assessment, Teaching [...]

Awards Ceremony 3/13- we will be recognizing exceptional leadership in college and program level assessment

From: Ater-Kranov, Ashley Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:55 PM To: OAI.Personnel Subject: Awards Ceremony 3/13- we will be recognizing exceptional leadership in college and program level assessment Please see the attached invitation. The awards list is below. Office of Assessment & Innovation Berat Hakan Gurocak hgurocak@wsu.edu Assessment Leadership for Mechanical Engineering WSU Vancouver Office [...]

HEC Board Report (Feb 25, 2010)

Sent and accepted by WSU administration…. attached report  HEC Board Outcomes Report (March 2010 FINAL)

Updated OAI web presence

The OAI website is updated along with new landing page for UniversityPortfolio/2009-2010 (the ‘dirdash’ page) that provides summary data from the Dec 18 self-study effort. In addition, preparations are in place for the ‘May Folder’ with materials for writing the May self-study and a more general ‘Resources folder’ for Outcomes Assessment resources not related to [...]

Status of reports for 2009

Status of reports for 2009 Hi Larry, Here is where we are at. 1.      “Ready” means we have it and are reviewing it now (or have reviewed and rated). 2.     “Not ready” means we are either talking with or working with programs to get their planning documents (and plans) in shape. 3.      “Not received” means [...]

Recognition from VP Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment at AAC&U

From a 12/15/2009 webcast, Terry Rhodes,Vice President for Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment at AAC&U: https://admin.na6.acrobat.com/_a738382050/p17163215/ Questioner: “How is VALUE & Power of Rubrics to assess learning playing in the VSA [Volunteer System of Accountability] Sphere?” Rhodes: [VSA is ] very concerned about comparability among institutions, but they have indicated they would love campuses to use rubrics [...]