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

Updating and Advancing Accreditation Self Studies

Program Assessment Points and Liaisons: Thank you for the work you and your colleagues have done and are doing on assessment so far, and thanks for the feedback.   We continue to need your help addressing the many entities that have an interest in WSU’s commitment to student learning outcomes. There are audiences at the [...]

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 [...]

Results from OAI Norming Session Dec 21 2009

Following the Dec 18 for programs to deliver reports, the OAI met as a whole to apply the rubric to selected programs and discuss face-to-face the experience and observations. These images are the whiteboard of the results of that session. Scoring data are preliminary, because of the pilot and developmental nature of the meeting. Following [...]

Encouraging programs to document what(ever) they are doing

A couple of the programs I’ve been working with have sent exhibits along with their reports — materials that I had no idea existed (like course rubrics based on the CITR). Regardless of whether or not a program uses a template or other shared space, I’m thinking we should encourage them to document what they [...]

Webinar on using A of A rubric

We did a webinar for TLT group as part of their series “The Power of Rubrics.” This post links to the relevant materials. Also in this session Terry Rhodes presented and made some interesting comments in recognition of our work.

December Agenda Shared with Liaisons

Suggestion for you to send to Liaisons In particular, the note was shared: The new OAI website is up http://oai.wsu.edu and we are assembling resources there that will be helpful to you and program contacts in creating the plans that are due Dec 18. Especially note the three links on the right end in the [...]

Assessment Liaison Updates and Tasks

Folks, Please share with your Program Assessment Point people: 1.      OAI contacts have been assigned for each program. You can see the list:  https://universityportfolio.wsu.edu/20082009/Lists/Liaisons/Liaison%20Council.aspx If you click on the names, you will find more contact information, but if that fails, all OAI contacts can be reached at 5-1355. No doubt this list will be changing.  Please [...]

OAI website launched

Here is the new website in support of the new OAI organization. There is still transitional work to do to retire the CTLT website and more work to migrate legacy SharePoint sites from Teamsite.oue. The parts of this web strategy are emerging A simple branded website (OAI.wsu) A public portfolio of the university’s outcomes assessment [...]