IPFW Assessment Workshop Series Module 1: Creating meaningful and assessable

Programmatic Student Learning OutcomesD. Kent Johnson, PhDDirector of Assessment

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Expected Workshop Outcomes

As a result of completing today’s workshop, participants will:

• Evaluate current programmatic student learning outcomes.

• Create an assessable student learning outcome.

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Developing Student Learning Outcomes

• A Student Learning Outcome is a statement of what you expect students to know or be able to do.

• At the program level, these are statements that define the attributes you expect of your program graduates.

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Developing Student Learning Outcomes

To get started, use Worksheet 1 to list around 5 things you expect your students to “know” (knowledge) or be able to do (skills) upon completing your major.

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Setting Programmatic Expectations:Completing The Programmatic SLO Worksheet

What do you expect students to know? (Knowledge)Graduates of this program will

What do you expect students to be able to do? (Skills)Graduates of this program will

See Worksheet 1 – Fillable .pdf in Worksheet Package

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Student Learning Outcomes:

Defining Expected Levels of Learning

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Student Learning Outcomes:

Defining Expected Levels of Learning

Dee Fink (2003). Creating Significant Learning Experiences. Jossey-Bass.

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Student Learning OutcomesSample Action Verbs

Remember Understand Apply Analyze Evaluate Create

Recognize Interpret Implement Compare Check DesignList Summarize Carry Out Organize Hypothesize Construct

Describe Infer Use Deconstruct Critique Plan

Identify Paraphrase Execute Attribute Experiment Produce

Retrieve Classify Outline Judge Invent

Name Compare Find Test Devise

Locate Explain Structure Detect Make

Find Integrate Monitor

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Sample Statement: Upon graduation, students will analyze and interpret data to produce meaningful conclusions and recommendations .

Worksheet Two

Writing Programmatic SLO’s

List expected knowledge and skills developed in Exercise One

Assign the level of learning expected at graduation using action verbs from Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001, 2013)

Statement of Programmatic Student Learning Outcome

Upon Completion of the program, students will be able to (action verb(s) denoting level of learning) + (object describing what students should be able to produce).

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If you expect students to reach an application level by the end of a program, they might demonstrate:Student can apply a theory to (perform some action)

• In a management or social science course, a student might apply a theory to complete a case study (the learning product)

• In a science course, a student might apply a theory to set up an experiment (experiment design is the learning product)

But, this level of learning might be better demonstrated in a humanities or arts major in a different way, for example

Developing Student Learning Outcomes Sample SLOs

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Student can judge (some product) to• In a literature course a student might Judge the

quality of a literary piece to produce a literary critique (written critique is the product)

• In music a student might Judge the quality of a musical performance to produce a critique for the arts section of a paper (newspaper critique is the learning product)

Developing Student Learning Outcomes Sample SLOs (cont.)