ETEAL Supported Initiatives
Assessment Requirements 2014-2015
Congratulations on the award for your applied learning experience! For all ETEAL programs, we need to
collect evidence of the impact of the experience in order to assess the overall impact of the QEP. Here is the
information you need to prepare for the assessment requirements.
Notification of Assessment – Instructors are required to notify their students of the ETEAL Assessment
component of their applied learning experience. This can be done either by including an official notification
paragraph in your syllabus or by having students complete a notification form.
Student Critical Reflections – All students are required to submit a critical reflection. The reflection prompts
are designed by the course instructor. The instructor should keep in mind the ETEAL Student Learning
Outcomes and the Critical Reflection Rubric when making the assignment. The work can be collected
electronically or on paper, at the instructor’s preference. If we collect paper copies, we will make
arrangements to collect, make copies and return them BEFORE you score them. Students’ performances on
all assessments are improved and more reliable when they have a stake in the outcome, for instance, if the
assessment is part of their grade.
Instructor Critical Reflections – All ETEAL Supported Initiative grant recipients are required to submit their
own critical reflection. Prompts are provided to get you started, and you are invited to go beyond the
prompts to reflect on any part of the experience.
Student End-of-Experience Survey – Each student is required to respond to the end-of-experience survey.
This 5-question survey is designed to collect information about other applied experiences they may have
participated in. Surveys requests will be emailed to each student. Credit for completing will help response
rate.
Instructor End-of-Experience Survey – Each grant recipient is required to respond to the end-of-experience
survey. This survey is designed to collect information about the experience (type, practices employed) and
about your previous experience. Suggested prompts are provided.
Other Student Work Products – ETEAL is designed to address three of the UNCW Learning Goals: Critical
Thinking, Inquiry, and Thoughtful Expression. While not required for all classes, it is important that we collect
other student work that address one or more of these Learning Goals from some of the experiences.
Collection will be the same as for the student critical reflections—electronic or on paper.
All student survey responses are due on Reading Day and all student work is due to us by the last day of final
exams. The instructor reflection and survey are due by January 7, 2014 for fall classes and May 22, 2015 for
spring classes.
We will be in contact with you during the semester to find out more about your applied learning experiences
and the student work you’ll be submitting. If you have any questions, please contact us.
Thank you.
Jess M. Boersma
Director of ETEAL
Linda Siefert
Director of General
Education Assessment
Robert Hicks
ETEAL Social Research Assistant