FLC Syllabus for: Program Assessment
FLC Facilitators:
Amy Liu – Interim University Assessment Coordinator
Lynn M. Tashiro - Director of Center for Teaching and Learning
FLC focus
This FLC will collaboratively engage faculty over a sustained period of time (1 year) to
develop and refine skills in assessment and the research that can lead both to
programmatic change and the scholarship of teaching. The goal of this FLC is to produce
exemplars of the specific tools (curriculum maps, signature assignments, rubrics, etc.) and
data (student work) needed for meaningful programmatic assessment and develop faculty
leadership in the disciplines to propagate this practice.
FLC Outcomes
The outcomes of the FLC include the following:
Each FLC team will be able to:
1. Write or rephrase at least one existing program learning outcomes so that:
a. it is aligned with the University Baccalaureate Learning Goals
b. student evidence of achieving the outcome can be collected
2. Develop curriculum maps to show which courses in the program and which
signature assignments in courses would address the specific learning outcome(s).
3. Develop a common program rubric that clearly specifies the criteria the program
will use to evaluate student work produced by the signature assignments in the
courses identified in 2).
4. Write, submit, and get approved a “Human Subject Review” from the University’s
Internal Review Board so the data and results from assessment studies can be
used for teaching and research.
5. Develop a plan for how assessment results will be shared within the program and
used for program improvement and present assessment results to one group
external to the FLC (ex. Academic departments, Academic Affairs, Office of
Academic Program Assessment, etc.)
Each team will deliver the following:
1. Syllabi from at least three courses that articulates the following:
a. specific program learning outcome(s)
b. description of the signature assignment that will generate student work that
will be used as evidence of meeting the articulated program learning outcome
2. Student handouts or written prompts describing the signature assignments
3. Curriculum and signature assignment maps
4. Human subject review proposal
5. Rubrics used to evaluate student work produced by the signature assignments
6. Samples of student work produced from the signature assignments
7. Evaluation of student work and analysis of results
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8. Flow chart of how the assessment results will be disseminated and used for
program improvement
9. Presentation of program assessment tools, process, outcomes, and implications
for program improvement
10. e-portfolio containing electronic copies of items 1-9 above
FLC Timeline
Note: e-folio will be used to archive deliverables and Blackboard will be used as an
online community site for the exchange of FLC announcements, materials and
between meeting discussions.
Meeting # Topic
Activity
Deliverables
Month
(all meetings face to face)
1
1. Introduction to
• distribution of books and
the FLC
handouts, discussion of
2. Student
FLC process &
Learning
deliverables
Outcomes (SLO)
• Articulating measurable
on the course
SLOs on the course and
and program
program level
level
2
1. Curriculum
• Mapping curriculum onto 1. Course Syllabi
mapping on the
SLO(s) on the course and
due
course and
program level
2. Description of
program level
• Mapping signature
signature
2. Human Subjects
assignments onto SLO(s)
assignment(s)
Review
• Writing a human subject
due
review proposal
3
1. Assessment of
• Description of student
3. Curriculum
Student Work on
work to be collected as
and signature
the course and
evidence of SLO
assignment
program level
achievement
maps due
2. Rubric
• Creating and using
4. Human
development
Formative/summative,
subject
and testing
Direct/Indirect
proposal due
assessment tools, rubrics
etc.
4
1. Program
• Defining content and
5. Rubrics for
Assessment:
structure for different
signature
Defining
assessment reports
assignments
audience,
• Triangulation of data
due
purpose, and use • Outline of Program
Assessment to be carried
2. The e-folio
out Fall semester
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5
1. Program
Assessment
PlanPresentation and
peer review
6
7
1. Updated
Program
Assessment Plan
2. Implementation
time line
Data Collection
8
Data Analysis
• Training on e-folio
• Presentation of proposed
Program assessment plan
• Peer review, discussion,
and revision
• Upload of the plan and
first semester
deliverables into e-folio
• Presentation of revised
Assessment Plan
• Timeline for collection of
data, student work.
• Discussion of methods,
challenges and lesson
learned
• Discussion of methods
and results of data
analysis
6. Samples of
student work
from
signature
assignments
9
1. Assessment
• Presentation of program
7. Evaluation
report writing
assessment data and
and analysis of
and presenting
analysis
student work
10
1. Culminating
• Final presentation and
9. Presentation
event
reflection of FLC report
of program
2. Presentations to • Plan for dissemination of
assessment
program
project beyond FLC
project
departments &
10. e-portfolio
University units
completion
Stipend award date will be after all deliverables are received and will not be later than
Dec. 31, 2012.
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