Demystifying Assessment at Cal Poly Pomona

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Demystifying Assessment at Cal Poly Pomona

• Bob Hurt
• Faculty Associate for Assessment Program Review
• RLHurt_at_csupomona.edu
• [phone]

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Outline

• Presentation objectives
• Free-writing exercise
• Assessment types
• Driving forces
• Program assessment steps
• Additional resources

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Presentation objectives

• Todays session should enable you to
• Articulate your feelings and misgivings about
  assessment.
• Differentiate various types of assessment
  activities
• Identify the driving forces behind the
  assessment push in higher education.

• List, discuss and adapt typical steps in
  conducting program assessment.
• Identify, describe and construct tools for
  program assessment.
• Locate additional resources on assessment
  principles and procedures.

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Free-writing exercise

• For one minute, please write about your hopes,
  fears and misgivings regarding assessment at Cal
  Poly Pomona.

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Assessment types

• By object
• Student
• Have my students mastered the course objectives?
• Faculty
• Is my teaching style meeting student needs?
• Course
• Are my course objectives relevant?
• Program
• Is our academic program achieving its goals?

• By purpose
• Formative
• Encourages questioning, introspection, and change
• Summative
• Focuses on achievement, performance review, and /
  or grading

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Driving forces
Current prospective faculty
Current prospective students
Need / push for program assessment data
Employers
Taxpayers other donors
Administrators
Legislatures other government entities
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Program assessment steps (1 of 3)

• Recognize the need for assessment.
• In consultation with faculty other stakeholder
  groups, develop a program mission.

• Articulate educational outcomes.
• Cognitive what should students know?
• Affective what should students value?
• Psychomotor what should they be able to do?

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Program assessment steps (2 of 3)

• Determine where the outcomes are developed in the
  program.

• Identify evaluate, or develop, assessment tools
  for the outcomes.
• Surveys interviews
• Portfolios
• Exams projects

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Program assessment steps (3 of 3)

• Collect data.
• Focus on the overall program results.
• Stay away from using data to evaluate individual
  faculty.

• Analyze data for improvement opportunities.
• Refine goals tools, and start the cycle again.

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Additional resources

• For more information and resources regarding
  program assessment, see the Cal Poly Pomona
  Program Assessment web site.