Learning Assessment
Building a ThinkNation
Guest Speakers
Stacy Holliday, Davidson County Community CollegeTeamUP Professional Educator, Cengage Learning
Greg Dixon, University of West Georgia MindTap Technology Power User, Cengage Learning
Agenda
• How to make assessment meaningful• Implementation examples• Leveraging MindTap• Q&A
Take a Moment to Answer this Poll
What’s in a #?
The national college completion rates are:
55.6 % graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in 6 years
29.2 % graduate with an Associate’s degree in 3
years
The completion rate for (Faculty Name) is _____
What does assessment mean?
What is Assessment?
Assessment is the process of gathering and discussing information from multiple and diverse sources in order to develop a deep understanding of what students know, understand, and can do with their knowledge as a result of their educational experiences (Huba and Freed 2000)
Assessment is the ongoing process of:
– Systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches our expectations
– Using the resulting information to understand and improve subsequent student learning.
(Suskie 2009)
Closing the Loop
What do we want our students to know and be able to do?
Goals, outcomes, objectives
Based on our review of the information, what changes/suggestions/tweaks would we recommend?
“Closing the loop”
The aim of assessment is action.
(Walvoord, 2010)
Assessment can…
Knowledge is Power
Know… Time in Course Completion Engagement
Analytics
Examples: logs into MindTap time active in Mindtap Number of takes: assessment or homework activity accesses reading activities note or a highlight in a reading activity views a glossary term in a reading activity accesses flashcards accesses videos or other presentation material runs a search
Measuring Engagement
“Who’s at risk?”
“Where is the class having trouble?”
“Where do I stand?”
“How do I compare to my classmates?”
What can I do differently?
Know where students
are spending time…
and not.
How are students
tracking… who are
the outliers?
Where do they
stand… individually
and compared to
highest performers.
Gradebook
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Questions & Comments
