Increasing Faculty Engagement with Assessment and Course Design

Session Number: G-SUN-0200-i

When: 4/7/2013 from 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Where: Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower

 

Keywords:

Assessment of Student LearningTeaching/PedagogyFaculty Development and Evaluation

Description:

Interdisciplinary, collaborative course design institutes can change how faculty think about teaching and about assessment. In this session, we will provide background on the institutes, share findings from three research projects about their impact, and lead a discussion on using our findings to create change at other campuses.

Target Audience:

Those interested in encouraging faculty engagement in course and program-level assessment, at any size institution.

Speaking:

Dr. Teresa A. Johnson, Instructional Consultant and Coordinator for Assessment and Curriculum Design, The Ohio State University
Dr. Kathryn M. Plank, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Otterbein University

Issues to be Addressed:

Faculty resistance/uncertainty toward assessment. Addressing the connection between course design and assessment. We will be discussing the issues of backwards design and metacognition about teaching. We will also discuss instructor willingness to engage in and use the process of course and program-level assessment for course-level improvement/redesign, as well as to design courses and curricula beginning with questions of assessment.

Expected Learning Outcomes:

Participants will be able to draw conclusions from our research—both the research about our own CDI as well as a multi-institution project studying course design institutes at multiple institutions in North America--about the essential components of this experience so that they can plan methods for creating a transformative experience that meets the needs of their own campuses. They will also leave with ideas for assessing teachers’ meta-cognitive awareness.