Monday, April 26, 2:00 to 3:30 pm, Humanities Theatre in Hagey Hall (HH)
Presidents' Colloquium – Making Assessment Meaningful
Should assessment focus on accountability? Or improvement? It doesn’t have to be just one or the other. We can expand our formerly dualistic view of assessment and focus on what is most important – learning. Assessment should be an integrated, engaging, and evolving process that encourages students to focus on their learning, not on their grades. What can we do to ensure that we are assessing our students’ learning in meaningful ways? This talk will focus on a vision of assessment that is worth the time and effort we put into it. Registration is not required.

Tuesday, April 27, 9:00 to 11:00 am, FLEX Lab (LIB 329)
Faculty Workshop – Mapping Your Curriculum: Where Are You Going?
If we agree that assessment is a tool to enhance teaching and learning, we can use curriculum mapping to better align our courses with what we want students to learn. Mapping the curriculum for your course (or even your program) will illuminate the connections among what you teach, how you assign student work, and what you want your students to be able to do. What do you want students to know as a result of completing your course? How will you get them to this point? In this workshop, you will use a curriculum mapping process to help align your course-level assessment, teaching, and learning. For further information or to register, please contact Shelley Bacik

Tuesday, April 27, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, FLEX Lab (LIB 329)
Faculty Workshop – Teaching, Learning, and Assessment: A Three Legged Stool
Teaching, learning, and assessing student learning are all part of the educational process. By removing any one of these, an important part of the process is lost. When assessment is pulled out of the process, we can view it as an “added on” requirement that takes time and effort away from teaching. But this is a false premise – there is no valid assessment without teaching and learning! How can we make certain that these parts remain entwined? In this session, you will explore how you currently assess your students’ learning, inviting you to look even deeper into the process. Sample activities and assessment methodologies will be shared. For further information or to register, please contact Shelley Bacik

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