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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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

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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

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3 1 1 1 3

4 0

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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