melanie diloreto. planning committee ◦ spring 2008 – summer 2008 ◦ internal & external...

Tk20 OverviewMelanie DiLoreto

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

Tk20 Adoption

In Tk20, students can complete applications for both program admission and field

experiences/student teaching.

Benefits:

Accuracy

Decreased Paper Trail

Reporting Ability

Applications

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

Field Experience

Benefits: Day to Day Operational Needs

• Eliminates data entry

• Reports that identify eligible teacher candidates at each transition point

• Forecasting reports

Field Experience

Benefits: Accreditation

• Collect comprehensive assessments from admissions to student certification

• Demonstrate diversity of field placements

• Align assessments with professional, state, and institutional standards

Field Experience

Field Experience

Benefits to UWF: 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?

Necessary for program improvement and accreditation

Advisement

Benefits to Students:• Visibility of Program Requirements• Informs them of progress

Advisement

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 informationAll of these contribute to effective data capture for accreditation and assessment

needs.

Faculty Artifacts

Examples of Faculty Artifacts:

Syllabi

Curriculum Vita

Dissertation Committee Documentation

Faculty Artifacts

Benefits: Increases variety of measures at your disposal Survey large groups Access groups that do not assemble regularly Aggregate results due to an identical instrument Eliminate fields necessary in paper-based

surveys Convenient for respondents Cost-effective method requiring fewer resources

Surveys

Rule of Thumb: use surveys to collect data that cannot be obtained through other functionalities in Tk20.

Alumni activity surveys Employer satisfaction surveys Graduate exit surveys Administrative/Non-Academic Department

surveys

Surveys

Benefits: 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

Course Evaluations

A set of pre-generated reports is available for use the minute course evaluations are sent:

People with Pending Course EvaluationsPeople with Complete Course EvaluationsAggregated Results of All ResponsesAggregated Results by CourseAggregated Results by SectionAggregated Results by TermAggregated Results by Instructor

Course Evaluations

Course-Based Assessments

Collect evidences that document students knowledge, skills, and dispositions

Generate reports for program improvement and accreditation needs

Align assignments and assessments to standards

Course-Based Assessments

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

Reports

Questions???