Discussion: Is your assignment appropriate for assessment the appropriate VALUE rubric? Does your assignment with broad assignment parameters offered by the project? Do your assignment instructions prompt students to demonstrate the intended skills? 3. to submit an assignment (either already being used or newly developed) and the corresponding student work during the fall 2014 Campus project leads will alert faculty to professional development activities and resources to assist in assignment design and to answer other questions related to the pilot study. CAMPUS BENEFITS: Campus participation will: help campuses publically affirm their commitment to improve the quality of student learning help campuses respond to accountability expectations with assessments based on authentic student work help elevate the importance of the quality of student learning as documented by assessment of student work provide external validation for internal campus assessment results provide the opportunity for campuses to learn from benchmarking their assessment results to the aggregated results of similar institutions in their state and among states in the MSC result in benefits to students as faculty gain access to state and multi-state assessment information useful for curricular planning, program improvement, and enrichment of pedagogy Campuses will gain access to data and analysis of data on student learning, helping them to identify trends in institutional data that vary from or are reflected in the state and data benefit from the MSC findings regarding inter-rater reliability and VALUE rubric validity provide insight into the ability to collect assignments and corresponding student work suitable for assessing written communication, quantitative literacy, and in selected instances, critical thinking from students nearing graduation—valuable for creating professional development activities to build institutional capacity
Discussion: Is your assignment appropriate for assessment the appropriate VALUE rubric? Does your assignment with broad assignment parameters offered by the project? Do your assignment instructions prompt students to demonstrate the intended skills? 3. to submit an assignment (either already being used or newly developed) and the corresponding student work during the fall 2014 Campus project leads will alert faculty to professional development activities and resources to assist in assignment design and to answer other questions related to the pilot study. CAMPUS BENEFITS: Campus participation will: help campuses publically affirm their commitment to improve the quality of student learning help campuses respond to accountability expectations with assessments based on authentic student work help elevate the importance of the quality of student learning as documented by assessment of student work provide external validation for internal campus assessment results provide the opportunity for campuses to learn from benchmarking their assessment results to the aggregated results of similar institutions in their state and among states in the MSC result in benefits to students as faculty gain access to state and multi-state assessment information useful for curricular planning, program improvement, and enrichment of pedagogy Campuses will gain access to data and analysis of data on student learning, helping them to identify trends in institutional data that vary from or are reflected in the state and data benefit from the MSC findings regarding inter-rater reliability and VALUE rubric validity provide insight into the ability to collect assignments and corresponding student work suitable for assessing written communication, quantitative literacy, and in selected instances, critical thinking from students nearing graduation—valuable for creating professional development activities to build institutional capacity
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