Melanie DiLoreto
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Planning Committee
◦ Spring 2008 – Summer 2008
◦ Internal & External Stakeholders – CAS, PCL, SoE, Academic
Affairs, Supervising Teachers, Faculty & Administrators
◦ Reviewed 3 systems - Interviewed several institutional
representatives across nation
 face-to-face visit with one institution
◦ SoE adopted Fall 2008; Educational Leadership Spring 2009
◦ Course Based Assessments – Courses common across
programs that meet accreditation recommendations
In Tk20, students can complete
applications for both program admission
and field experiences/student teaching.
Benefits:
Accuracy
Decreased Paper Trail
Reporting Ability
Benefits:
 Program
Improvement
• Collect assessments used by candidates and
clinical faculty to determine areas that need
improvement
• Identify points at which students are dropping
out of the program
• Systematically study changes to ensure that
program improvement is occurring
Benefits:
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Day to Day Operational Needs
•Eliminates data entry
•Reports that identify eligible teacher
candidates at each transition point
•Forecasting reports
Benefits:
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Accreditation
•Collect comprehensive assessments from
admissions to student certification
•Demonstrate diversity of field placements
•Align assessments with professional,
state, and institutional standards
Benefits to UWF:
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Tracking student progress
◦ How many students are in each stage?
◦ At what point do students drop out?
◦ How long does it take for students to get
through each stage?
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Necessary for program improvement
and accreditation
Benefits to Students:
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Visibility of Program Requirements
Informs them of progress
Benefits:
Allows UWF to collect specific information from all
users of our system in addition to our SIS data
 Provides data that can be compiled or aggregated
for accreditation, assessment, promotion, tenure
etc.
 Provides a mechanism of collecting information
that is not easily accessible
 Provides standardization of information
All of these contribute to effective data capture for
accreditation and assessment needs.
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Examples of Faculty Artifacts:
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Syllabi
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Curriculum Vita
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Dissertation Committee Documentation
Benefits:
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Increases variety of measures at your disposal
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Survey large groups
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Access groups that do not assemble regularly
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Aggregate results due to an identical instrument
Eliminate fields necessary in paper-based surveys
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Convenient for respondents
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Cost-effective method requiring fewer resources
 Rule
of Thumb: use surveys to collect
data that cannot be obtained through
other functionalities in Tk20.
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Alumni activity surveys
Employer satisfaction surveys
Graduate exit surveys
Administrative/Non-Academic Department
surveys
Benefits:
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Simple to send out, either to selected courses or all
courses
No gathering of paper forms/no more illegible
answers
Responses confidential and anonymous, yet you
will know who did not complete an evaluation
Instant access to data as it is entered, both
aggregate and comprehensive
A set of pre-generated reports is
available for use the minute course
evaluations are sent:
 People with Pending Course Evaluations
 People with Complete Course Evaluations
 Aggregated Results of All Responses
 Aggregated Results by Course
 Aggregated Results by Section
 Aggregated Results by Term
 Aggregated Results by Instructor
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Collect evidences that document
students knowledge, skills, and
dispositions
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Generate reports for program
improvement and accreditation needs
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Align assignments and assessments to
standards
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Disaggregate by program, campus (online,
face-to-face), course, section, instructor, etc.
Enrollment, recent graduates, active (not
enrolled)
Demographics (student and faculty)
Field Experience evaluations by course,
program, unit
FTCE, GRE, FELE exam tracking
Diversity of Field Experience Placements