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Title: Accountability, Assessment and Student Learning Outcomes at FSU


1
Accountability, Assessment and Student Learning
Outcomes at FSU
  • New Faculty Presentation
  • August 2008

2
Accountability As a Watchword
  • The ability to demonstrate to key stakeholders
    that a program or organization works and that it
    uses its resources effectively to achieve and
    sustain project goals and outcomes

3
The Move to Increased Accountability Is Widespread
  • At FSU, accountability is influenced, in part,
    by
  • Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
    (SACS) Requirements for all Programs as part of
    the Effort to Establish Institutional
    Effectiveness
  • The Requirement of Professional Disciplines

4
Additionally
  • Florida Board of Governors Requirements for
    Undergraduate Programs State Mandated Academic
    Learning Compacts (SMALCs)
  • Quality Enhancement Reviews (QERs)
  • Voluntary System of Accountability

5
More Attempts to Ensure Accountability May Be in
the Offing
  • The lingering ripples from the US Secretary of
    Education's Commission on the Future of Higher
    Education
  • Bologna Accords are gaining interest in some
    quarters

6
New Forms of Accountability Such As Student
Learning Outcomes Are Now Requirements
  • A Student Learning Outcome is the knowledge,
    skills, and abilities that a student has attained
    at the end (or as a result) of his or her
    engagement in a particular set of higher
    education experiences.

7
A Pedagogical Straitjacket
  • LAURIE FENDRICH (Hofstra University)
  • NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY PURPORT TO BE ABOUT
    "STANDARDS" OR STUDENT "NEEDS," THEY ARE IN FACT
    SCAMS RUN BY BLOODLESS BUREAUCRATS WHO, STEEPED
    IN JARGON LIKE "MAPPING LEARNING GOALS" AND
    "CLOSING THE LOOP," DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE
    HOLISTIC NATURE OF A GOOD COLLEGE EDUCATION...

8
Assessment Has a Long Tradition Within Higher
Education
  • Assessment is at the Center of University Life
    e.g.
  • Tenure Reviews,
  • Qualifying Exams,
  • Peer Review

9
But New Demands For Accountability Can Clash With
Traditional Means of Assessment Consider The
Formalization of Student Learning Outcomes
  • A Student Learning Outcome is the knowledge,
    skills, and abilities that a student has attained
    at the end (or as a result) of his or her
    engagement in a particular set of higher
    education experiences.

10
Convincing Everyone of the Value of Such
Techniques Can Be a Challenge
No one is making you do anything you dont want.
Im just saying were all headed for Dodge City
and we think you should come along.
11
Much Is Familiar
  • Faculty meet and determine what the curriculum is
    to contain
  • Courses are established that contain various
    curriculum elements
  • Syllabi are developed to those ends
  • In class tests and on-going program reviews based
    on assessments
  • Regular reviews of student performance and
    substantive changes occur
  • Changes of curriculum are made as needed

12
But There Are New Elements in the New
Institutional Effectiveness
  • More Systematic
  • More Formal
  • More Comprehensive
  • More Frequent

13
These Elements Can Be ValuableThey Can Help
Improve Our Answers to Several Key Questions
  • What are we trying to accomplish?
  • How well are we doing we what have set out to do?
  • Do we understand why we are doing well or poorly?
  • Are we acting on our understanding to improve
    performance?

14
Institutional Effectiveness at FSU
  • Annual assessments are collected and maintained
    in an Institutional Effectiveness Portal
    August-October
  • Chairs are responsible for gathering, entering
    and checking entries into the Portal
  • Curriculum committees must become involved By
    March 1st

15
Institutional Effectiveness at FSU
  • Undergraduate Outcomes are listed in the State
    Mandated Academic Learning Compact for Each
    Program
  • Each program undergoes a Quality Enhancement
    Review every 7 years

16
Faculty Curriculum or Assessment Committees Must
Be Involved
I dont think its a posse-it looks more like a
subcommittee.
17
If Faculty Are Not Involved, There Are Those With
Less Skill Willing to Step In
Shows you how much I know.
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