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Course-Level Course-Level AssessmentAssessment
Modern European HistoryModern European History
David BurlesonDavid Burleson
History/GovernmentHistory/Government
Arts and Humanities DepartmentArts and Humanities Department
Building Community
Building Community
• Cradle to grave approach– Identify early on the skills of
a “successful student”– Be consistent in application– Establishes the baseline for
follow-on assessment– Approach creates greater
consistency in building courses
HED CoreCompetencies
HED CoreCompetencies
Division/DepartmentLearning Objectives
Division/DepartmentLearning Objectives
Course Content Guide
Course Content Guide
History 102GSyllabus
History 102GSyllabus
Building Community
• Establish a framework for assessment– Logically divide coursework
to ensure SLOs are addressed and met
– Use writing assignment to generate artifacts for assessment
– Format grade book to better enable course-level assessment
History 102GSyllabus
History 102GSyllabus
Block approachBlock approach
Writing Assignment Writing Assignment
Grade BookGrade Book
Building Community
• Establish a framework for assessment—testing– Ensure tests measure
SLOs– Use of publisher test banks– Format test to enable
assessment
History 201 Exam #1, Fall 2007, Chapters 14-16
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History 201 Exam #1, Fall 2007, Chapters 14-16
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Building Community
• Establish a framework for assessment– Questions are divided
among chapters evaluated– Enables analysis of student
performance on individual chapters and blocks
– Makes trend analysis easier
– Quality control check on questions
History 201 Exam #1, Fall 2007, Chapters 14-16
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History 201 Exam #1, Fall 2007, Chapters 14-16
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Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Building Community
• Using test results
History 102, Exam #1 Fall 2007, Chapters 14-16
A B C D T
1 1 1 2
2 11 1 3
3 1 1 1 3
4 0
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6 1 1 1 3
7 11 111 5
8 1 1
9 1111 1 1 6
10 11 111 111 8
History 102, Exam #1 Fall 2007, Chapters 14-16
A B C D T
1 1 1 2
2 11 1 3
3 1 1 1 3
4 0
5 11111111 8
6 1 1 1 3
7 11 111 5
8 1 1
9 1111 1 1 6
10 11 111 111 8
23 total questions missed on Chapter 15
16 total questions missed on Chapter 14
PossibleTrend
PossibleTrend
• Putting it all together
StudentSuccess
Multiple Choice
Multiple Choice
Building Community
Essay Questions
Essay Questions
StudentAbsences
StudentAbsences
StudentBackground
StudentBackground
Building Community
• Useful in:– Comparing different sections
of the same class– Assessing the impact of new
texts or new classes– Comparing student
performance from semester-to-semester or year-to-year
– Developing greater familiarity with various actors in assessment process
Building Community
• Where to go from here?– Establishing an
assessment plan– Share data and results– Incorporate into WebCT or
other CMS– Economize efforts—more
bang for the buck • Fine tune writing
assignments• Become more integrated into
other assessment efforts
Building Community
• Where to go from here?– Incorporated pre-post data
collection– Share artifacts – General
Education Assessment, LL&TD
– Use of MAC worksheets in History classes
Course-Level Course-Level AssessmentAssessment
Modern European HistoryModern European History
David BurlesonDavid Burleson
History/GovernmentHistory/Government
Arts and Humanities DepartmentArts and Humanities Department
Building Community