Multi-State
Collaborative
What is it?
• Oregon University System (OUS) partnership with 9 states,
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U),
and State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO)
Association
• pilot effort to explore a system-level program of learning
outcomes assessment
• compare the level of learning achieved by students in the
various “segments” of the public system (community colleges,
universities) with the level of learning achieved by students at
peer institutions in other states without relying on a
standardized test.
• VALUE Rubrics
Why do it?
• Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA)
• Recently added VALUE Rubrics
• But there are no defined parameters around their use and
reporting of information
• Higher education needs to responsibly explore VSA-type
systems
• Preference is to find a way that supports OSU culture and
assessment approaches
Multi-State Collaborative
Principles
1. A statewide system of assessment should help to build and support a culture of student
learning that allows for assessment results to be used by each campus for
improving student learning and for program improvement.
2. A statewide plan for assessment should be based upon authentic student work
and allow for the use of multiple measures of student learning-indirect,
direct, and embedded--without a single mandated statewide test.
3. A common framework is needed for the statewide system of assessment. The AAC&U LEAP
Essential Learning Outcomes and Value Rubrics provide such a framework.
4. Assessment approaches should involve an iterative
as a "work in progress."
process, and, as such, be viewed
5. Assessment is most effective when it reflects an understanding of learning as
multidimensional, integrated, and revealed in performance over time.
Process
• Methods and Metrics sub-group
• Define data collection and analysis process
• Pilot testing
• Fall 2013
• Winter 2014
• Spring 2014
• OSU Multi-State Working Group
OSU Multi-State Working
Group
• One Representative from Each Area – Summer working group
• Quantitative reasoning
• Writing
• Scope of work
• Summer
• Pilot
• Stipends
Questions to Investigate
• Can we use the VALUE Rubrics to assess relevant
OSU Bacc Core outcomes?
• What criteria do existing, embedded
assessments need to have to be validly assessed
using the VALUE Rubric?
• What faculty development
/orientation/materials/information do we need
to provide to pilot test faculty?
• What assessment exist that meet these criteria?
Goals for the Working Group
• Develop a process to test the previous questions
• Identify faculty to participate in pilot study
• Fall 2013 – writing
• Winter 2014 – math/quantitative literacy
• Provide input into the larger multi-state collaborative
methods and metrics
Next Steps
• Identify OSU multi-state collaborative working group
participants - summer