Beginning, Middle, End: Using Assessment to Demonstrate Student Success

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Beginning, Middle, End Using Assessment to
Demonstrate Student Success

• Randall McClure, Braden Grams, Matt Christensen,
  Cindy Enter Brian Baumgart
• Realizing Student Potential Conference
• Minneapolis Community Technical College
• February 27, 2004

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Overview

• Participants in this session will learn about
  three assessment initiatives and how they have
  been designed and implemented to demonstrate
  student success. While these initiatives stem
  from one composition course at one MNSCU
  institution, their application reaches out to any
  MNSCU instructor or program looking for ways to
  demonstrate student success at the beginning,
  middle, or end of the semester.

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Outline

• BackgroundRandall McClure
• Beginning AssessmentMatt Christensen
• Middle AssessmentCindy Enter
• End AssessmentBrian Baumgart
• Individual ReflectionBraden Grams
• Breakout GroupsBraden Grams
• Group DiscussionAll
• Comments Questions?

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Background

• Institutional Course Context
• Participants
• Success as a Tension
• Ongoing/Daily/Impromptu vs. Planned/Structured
  Assessment
• Summary of Results
• Future Plans

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Beginning Assessment

• What We Did?Incoming Writing Sample
• What It Showed
• Why We Did It
• Who Benefited
• How Beginning Assessment Can Be Applied to Your
  Classroom

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Middle Assessment

• Characteristics of Classroom Assessment
• -Teacher-Directed -Mutually Beneficial
• -Formative -Context-Specific
• -Ongoing
• Three-Step Process for Implementing CAT
• -Planning -Implementing -Responding
• Some Simple Classroom Assessment Techniques
• -The Minute Paper -The Muddiest Point
• -The One-Sentence Summary -Directed Paraphrase
• -Application Cards -Midterm Feedback Forms

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End Assessment

• Student Evaluation
• Student Organization/Portfolio
• Decision Making
• Concrete Conclusion

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Individual ReflectionThe Minute Paper

• Take the next two minutes to answer the question
• How do you use (or might you use) beginning,
  middle, and end assessment to realize student
  success?
• Try to write continuously, recording all the
  ideas that occur to you without evaluating them.

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Breakout GroupsDiscussion Items

• For group discussion, choose one class that you
  have taught and will teach again.
• Discussion Tasks
• As a group, try to share ideas for beginning,
  middle, and end assessment projects for the
  course youve chosen.
• Try to answer the question, How do these
  assessment projects help you to realize student
  success?
• Group Goal
• How might techniques from other group members be
  adapted for your course in the form of a
  beginning, middle, and end assessment plan?

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Comments Questions?

• Thanks for attending our session!?
• Our email addresses
• randall.mcclure_at_mnsu.edu
• braden.grams_at_mnsu.edu
• cindy.enter_at_mnsu.edu
• matthew.christensen_at_mnsu.edu
• brian.baumgart_at_mnsu.edu
• Feel free to visit Dr. McClures web home at
  http//www.intech.mnsu.edu/mcclur/
• Enjoy the rest of the conference!?