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Closing the Loop in General Education Program Nhung Pham & Doug Koch AAC&U General Education and Assessment Conference San Francisco Feb 14-16, 2019 Established in 1871 Comprehensive University Enrollment: about 12,000


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Closing the Loop in General Education Program

Nhung Pham & Doug Koch AAC&U General Education and Assessment Conference San Francisco Feb 14-16, 2019

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University

  • f Central

Missouri

  • Established in 1871
  • Comprehensive University
  • Enrollment: about 12,000

in 2018

  • Updated General

Education Program following LEAP initiative in 2014

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General Education Program

5 skill-based competencies 5 knowledge-based competencies

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Purpose of the presentation

To share our experiences in closing the loop for the General Education Program

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Steps Leading to Closing the Loop

Modify Value Rubric

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Two Year Assessment Plan

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Steps Leading to Closing the Loop

  • Centralized Assessment Model in

data collection

  • One assignment from the course

aligned with Comp 1-5

  • 50% participation rate
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Steps Leading to Closing the Loop

  • Standardized Assessment

report

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Close the Loop - First Year

One Assessment report for entire University

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No actions made

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Close the Loop - Second Year

  • 1. One-page report for each

competency

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Close the Loop - Second Year

Lead Gen Ed faculty

  • Revise the rubric
  • assignment design

Actions

2 3

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Challenges to close the loop

Part-time faculty engagement

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Workload in grading

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Regular budget for Gen Ed Assessment reliability

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Challenges to close the loop

No external benchmark

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No evidence for improving student learning.

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Sustainability

  • 1. Diverse groups,

individuals’ engagement in assessment activities

  • Leaders
  • Committees
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Sustainability

  • 2. Continuous University

Support

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Sustainability

  • 3. Consistent lead

Gen Ed faculty for each competency

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Sustainability

  • 4. Annual professional

development

  • Assignment design
  • Calibration
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Sustainability

  • 5. Embed assessment

requirement into the current recertification process.

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What’s Next?

Sample data collection (3 artifacts per course) Have second rater to score the artifacts