Drinking The Kool-Aid: Assessment for New Professionals, by New Professionals
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Drinking the Kool-Aid! Assessment for New
Professionals, by New Professionals
Ryan Greelish, Resident Director, Bridgewater State UniversityJulie Hayes, Resident Director, Bridgewater State University
P. Max Quinn, Resident Director, Bridgewater State University
@RyanGreelish@J_E_Hayes
@PMaxQuinn
#NEACUHO2013#AssessmentKoolAid
“Don’t understand why assessment is so important?
Unsure how or why we should demonstrate the value of our work?
Learn how we as new professionals have taken the plunge into the world of assessment and why we would advocate that you join us in “drinking the Kool-Aid”!
This peer-to-peer session will focus on ways we have used assessment to improve our work, to promote student learning, and incorporating it into job searches, building relationships, and educating students.
We are excited to share our opportunities and experiences with you because assessment is here to stay, and it is up to us to embrace it.
OOH-YEAH!”
Program Abstract
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Learn how we, as new professionals, have taken the plunge into the world of assessment and why we would advocate that you join us in “drinking the Kool-Aid”!
This peer-to-peer session will focus on ways we have used assessment to improve our work, to promote student learning, and incorporating it into job searches, building relationships and educating students.
Goals
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Participants will be able to recognize the importance of embracing assessment.
Participants will be able to identify the high value assessment provides in our work.
Participants will be able to learn how to incorporate assessment into their jobs.
Learning Outcomes
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Who had assessment in formalized education? informal education?
What experience do you have with assessment?
None Some Much I’m an Expert
What are your thoughts and feelings about assessment?
Assessing the Kool-Aid...
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“Every student affairs professional I know is overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated.
I truly understand that the last thing you and your colleagues have time for is another responsibility...
Yet, one could argue that assessment is not an added responsibility and that high-quality programming has always required an evaluation component to learn if that programming has been effective”(Upcraft and Schuh, 1996 from Bresciani, 2003, p. 15).
Kool-Aid for Thought...
“I don’t have time to do assessment. Just give me the form to complete or tell me which box to check.
I just want to be done with it”
(Bresciani, 2003, p. 14).
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What is Assessment?
Why assessment is important? Accountability Improvement
ACPA Ask Standards
Why Drink The Kool-Aid?
“A milestone development in the history of ACPA’s
commitment to assessing student learning and
development, the ASK Standards now place this
work among the necessary responsibilities of student
affairs professionals.”
- Peggy Maki, Sept ‘06
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Who is it important to?
What are the implications if you don’t drink the Kool-Aid?
Why Drink The Kool-Aid?
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Learning Outcomes SWBAT + Bloom Word + Condition
Goals Direct vs. Indirect Quantitative vs. Qualitative
Kool-Aid Basics
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Not the Only Type of Assessment! Develop in a Team Types of Questions Layout Common Mistakes/ Challenges
Surveys
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Important Questions Types of Rubrics
Holistic vs. Analytical Considerations Review Rubric Benefits http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
Rubrics
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Why Document Your Results? Considerations Interpreting Data
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Reporting Trustworthy & Credibility Institutional Surveys
Interpreting & Reporting
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Complex Analysis is What Impresses People Analysis Happens at the End Quantitative Data is the Most Important Data is the Most Important Stating Limitations Weakens the Evaluation
Common Myths
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Identify Assessment Methods Develop a plan for collecting data Prioritize goals and set timelines Implement the Assessment Plan Use data to improve processes Communicate Results
Developing a Kool-Aid Plan
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Simple Aligned with the institutional mission Focus on one or two at a time Borrow ideas from other institutions Start Backwards
Considerations
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Tastings of the Assessment Kool-Aid
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Follow the leader, not the wolf...
Give IN to peer-pressure...
Find Kool-mentors
Sell your own brand of Kool-Aid
Assessment is Kool...
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Teach them HOW... to Write learning outcomes (LOs)
Why they are important How to link LOs to Mission
to Write a program evaluation Why satisfaction evaluations are important
in student programming
Teach them WHY... You, your department & institution drinks
Kool-Aid You need information to make decisions We must measure student learning
Preparing the Kool-Aid for our Students
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The cycle: Kool-Aid = 1 part water, 2 parts
mix, 3 parts love - stir until mixed well, enjoy over ice, repeat until satisfied
Assessment = 1 part value, 2 parts continuous improvement, 3 parts student development - mix together, celebrate with colleagues and repeat as necessary!
Assessment is never done, it is a cycle
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What have you done to embrace assessment?
Are you afraid of?
What is scary about assessment?
What does the Kool-Aid taste like?
Drink the Kool-Aid...
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@BethMoriarty Director of Residence Life &
Housing, Bridgewater State University
& @CHolbrook357
Associate Vice President of Student Affairs,
Bridgewater State University
A Special Thanks To:
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ACPA Ask Standards http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ (Rubrics) http://www.smcm.edu/studentaffairs/assessment.html
(Briefings & Executive Summaries) http://
uncw.edu/studentaffairs/assessment/documents/voiceflyer.pdf (Student Campaign)
http://www.bridgew.edu/StudentAffairs/Assessment/ (Divisional Overview)
Kool-Resources
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ACPA/NASPA/ACUHO-I Professional Competencies
NASPA Leadership Exchange – Fall 2003: Assessment of Student Learning and Development - MORE THAN A PLUG N’ PLAY by Marilee J. Bresciani http://www.naspa.org/membership/mem/pubs/lex/03fall.pdf
Evaluation Methodology Basics: The Nuts and Bolts of Sound Evaluation
Kool-Resources
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Thank you!
@RyanGreelish@J_E_Hayes@PMaxQuinn
#NEACUHO13#AssessmentKoolAid
QUESTIONS?