Using WEAVE Online
Nathan Lindsay & Dan Stroud
September 4, 2013
Assessment Workshops: Fall 2013
 Creating RooWriter Reading Packets - Tuesday,
September 10, 2013 (Henri Wood)
 Assessment Basics - Wednesday, September 18,
2013 (Nathan Lindsay)
 Writing Intensive (WI) Instructors Discussion Group -
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 (Henri Wood)
 General Education Assessment - Tuesday, October
8, 2013
(Nathan Lindsay)
 Conducting Focus Groups - Tuesday, November 12,
2013
(Nathan Lindsay and Dan Stroud)
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Kansas City events/locations are you most likely
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Four “Big Picture” questions to
ask about assessment
 How do you define a successful student?
 What have you learned about your students’
learning?
 Are you satisfied with the results?
 If not satisfied with the results, what are you
going to do about it?
Submitting the Assessment Annual Report
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Part I: Detailed Assessment
Report
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All items submitted in
WEAVEonline
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Mission statement
Goals
Learning outcomes
Measurements and achievement
targets
 Findings
 Action plans
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To log in to WEAVE, go to
https://app.weaveonline.com/umk
c/login.aspx
Using WEAVE for the 2012-2013
Assessment Cycle
 Everything from 2011-2012 has carried over into the 2012-
2013 assessment cycle
 If you are creating entirely new goals, learning outcomes, etc.,
don’t write these over the top of old items (this will mess up
your linked associations in WEAVE). Create new ones.
 If you need to delete something in WEAVE, please contact
me, and I will do it for you
Sharing Assessment Plans:
Printing Reports from WEAVE
 Click on the “Reports” tab
 Under “Select cycle,” choose your cycle (the
2012-2013 cycle should be chosen if you’d like
your findings listed)
 Under “Select a report,” there is a button you
can select for “Assessment Data by Section” to
make your report a little shorter
 Under “Select report entities,” choose the areas
you would like to report
Printing Reports from WEAVE (cont.)
 Click on “Next” (on the right side of the page)
 On the second page, under “Report-Specific
Parameters,” click on “Keep user-inserted
formatting.”
 Click on “Run” (on the right
side of the page)
 The Report will come up in
a new window, and this can
be copied and pasted into a
Word document.
Assessment Plan Narrative
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Part II: Timeline/Account of
Activities
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“Assessment Plan Narrative”
In 1-2 pages, tell the story of
all the work and careful
consideration you and your
colleagues accomplished in
your assessment work this
year (Ex.: meetings,
mentoring, experiments,
setbacks, lessons learned)
Submit this in the Document
Management section in
WEAVE
Please follow the four
outlined questions (see
next slide)
Four Questions for the Assessment Narrative
1)
Process: Please describe the specific activities and efforts used to
design, implement, and analyze your assessment plan during this
academic year. This narrative might be organized chronologically, listing
meetings, mentoring sessions, and experiments at each stage of the
developmental process including the names of people involved in various
capacities, with each event given one paragraph.
2)
Positives: Please describe what was most useful about the assessment
process, or what went well. What did you learn about your faculty,
students, or program through this experience?
3)
Challenges: Please describe the challenges you encountered in terms of
the development or implementation of your assessment procedures, as
well as the lessons you learned from this experience and your efforts or
plans for overcoming them. This section might be organized topically.
4)
Support: Please describe your program’s experience during the past year
with the support and administrative structures in place at UMKC for
Assessment: the Provost’s Office, the University Assessment Committee,
FaCET, and so on. If there are ways in which these areas could be
improved to better support your efforts in assessment, please make those
suggestions here.
Program Level
Student Learning
Outcomes
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4xx Capstone
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K= Knowledge/Comprehension; A= Application / Analysis; S= Synthesis /Evaluation
Avoiding “Garbage In, Garbage Out”
 An assessment plan submitted
for each degree is not enough
 Focus on encouraging best
practices
 Enhancing overall quality
through:
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One-on-one mentoring
Multiple drafts/iterative process
Timely and thorough peer review
given for all academic degrees
and student affairs programs
Submission: October 1st 2013
 Final reporting complete
for the 2012-2013
assessment cycle
 No edits allowed after
1st of October
 During the fall semester,
the University
Assessment Committee
and the Asst. VP for
Assessment will give
feedback on these
Annual Reports
After October
st
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 Assessment entries for AY
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2013-14 begin
Assessment Cycle runs
from June 1, 2013 to May
30, 2014
Need to implement the
Action Plans from last year
Update mission
statements, goals, learning
outcomes, and
measurements based on
feedback from UAC. Items
in WEAVE carry over from
last year unless changed.
Enter new findings and
action plans.
Assessment Resources
 Assessment Handbook
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Core principles and
processes regarding
UMKC assessment
WEAVE guidelines
Assessment glossary
10 FAQs
Appendices
 Available at
http://www.umkc.edu/provost/academicassessment/downloads/handbook-2011.pdf
Contact Information
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For assistance with
assessment, please contact
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Nathan Lindsay, Assistant Vice
Provost for Assessment at 2356084 or lindsayn@umkc.edu