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Making the Most of Program Assessment

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Making the Most of Program Assessment

A Provost Endorsement Program

About

“Making the Most of Program Assessment” is an asynchronous online faculty professional development program, featuring two required and a selection of elective webinars for a personalized curriculum. The final project offers participants the opportunity to bring together what they’ve learned in the course and apply it to their academic programs. Each module and the final project include reviewed activities with feedback from assessment professionals. Participants enjoy self-paced learning with open enrollment. While self-paced, the live offerings of the workshops are offered monthly by OPAIR. While self-paced, OPAIR will offer one live workshop per month during the academic year. Students who choose to work from the recorded workshops may have fewer opportunities to engage with peers or instructors

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Learning Outcomes

  • Describe Penn State’s learning assessment goals and process.
  • Articulate high-quality program learning objectives that are strong, specific, measurable, attainable, and developmentally appropriate.
  • Create an assessment timeline that includes an assessment plan (i.e., a clearly articulated assessment measure, performance target, and data collection strategy) and an action plan that describes how you will enact change in response to your findings.
  • Create a curriculum map to identify opportunities for assessment and potential challenges in the curricular structure.
  • Identify ways to incorporate equity into assessment and explain the drawbacks to not doing so.

Program Details

To receive the Making the Most of Program Assessment (MMPA) certificate of completion and badge, participants must complete the following steps.

1. Complete two required MMPA modules in Canvas:

    • Making the Most of Program Assessment Orientation
    • Charting Your Course: Fundamentals of Program Assessment Planning

2. Complete three or more elective MMPA modules from the following list:

    • Incorporating Penn State’s General Education Learning Objectives Rubrics into your Course Assessment
    • Crafting High-Quality PLOs
    • Creating and Using Rubrics
    • Creating and Using Curriculum Maps
    • Centering Equity in Program Assessment
    • Assessing Small Programs
    • Closing the Loop in Program Assessment

3. Complete the Final Project and Provost Endorsement Recognition module in Canvas

    • Final project: Submit a comprehensive assessment plan for your major or certificate
    • Complete the course post-test
    • Publish a discussion post in the MMPA Canvas space sharing what you have learned through completing the program
    • Complete the course feedback form

FAQs

What is the time commitment?

We expect that participants will spend 11-15 hours to complete the program.

 

Can I complete the program outside of the course schedule?

This course takes its contents from OPAIR’s Assessment Workshop Series. Participants have a choice of 1) attending the live workshops (see schedule) and completing the assignments in Canvas, 2) watching the recorded workshops and completing the assignments in Canvas, or 3) doing some of each. Participants who choose to work only from the recorded workshops may have fewer opportunities to engage with peers or instructors