IMPLEMENTING UNDERGRADUATE

STUDENT
LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT AT
THE
PROGRAM AND INSTITUTIONAL LEVELS

UNEC
Dr. Vusal Karimli
2023
 ASSESSMENT IN EDUCATION
What is assessment?
  Assessment in education is the collation of various data from different resources to check the student's
learning and understanding.
 When reviewed and placed in context, this data helps gauge student progress, roadblocks, and obstacles.
 It can further give an insight into the reasons why students face the problems they face and can help
bridge the gap between content retention and better student performance.
 Assessment is quintessential to learning.
 The general notion is that assessments are the big, final exams that take place at the end of a term or a
school year. But, that is not always the case.
 Even a small discussion or a Kahoot game can work as a quick assessment.
 VALUE AND PURPOSE FOR
ASSESSING STUDENT
LEARNING
When we assess students learning what is our main purpose?
 Assessments are critical to student learning. It not only helps the student
demonstrate their learning and knowledge on a given topic, it also gives the
teacher an opportunity to understand why students fair well on their exams.
 IMPORTANCE OF
ASSESSMENT
 Assessments are extremely important while teaching a concept in a class. Not only does it
serve the students, but it also serves the teachers.
 Assessments work as an excellent feedback mechanism to let the student know about their
progress.
 Assessments serve the students by letting them know what errors they made and how they
could correct those errors.
 It also helps students to reinforce the content better in the event they don't remember it
very well. It helps the students demonstrate what they've learned and understand the
content that the teacher took weeks preparing, developing, and teaching.
 The results of such assessments done over a period of time, then help evaluate student
progress.
 ASSESSMENT AT THE
PROGRAM AND INSTITUTIONAL
 LEVELS
ASSESSMENT AT THE PROGRAM?
 Conducting regular assessment helps an academic program determine how the
curriculum is contributing to the learning and development of students. Assessment
helps programs:
 Discover through empirical evidence "what students are learning"
 Identify gaps in student learning areas
 Inform teaching pedagogy by aligning best practices with learners’ needs
 Make informed decisions; guide curriculum, course action, and revision
 Demonstrate overall program effectiveness; showcase student learning ‐ "what works"

 (Adapted from 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning)

 See https://www.ncat.edu/_files/pdfs/campus-life/nine-principles.pdf
 ASSESSMENT AT THE
INSTITUTIONAL LEVELS
 Institutional Assessment is the systematic collection, review, and use of
information about educational quality, undertaken for the purpose of improving
programs, services, student learning, and development.
 The starting point for an assessment process is a well-crafted and meaningful
mission statement embraced by all constituents of the institution (MSCHE, 2011).
 The mission provides guidance for an institution’s goals and learning outcomes;
the curriculum provides a framework for the process and activities that ensure the
educational environment will lead to achievement of the SLOs (Spady &
Schwann, 2010).
 INSTITUTIONAL-LEVEL STUDENT
OUTCOMES: GENERAL EDUCATION
 General Education SLOs are the knowledge, skills, and competencies all graduates of the
institution can be expected to demonstrate, regardless of major pursued.
 Outcomes from the GE curriculum can be intellectual, social, civic, political, religious,
moral/ethical, physical, or occupational.
 They can be achieved through a series of specific courses, infused throughout the
curriculum across disciplines, reinforced in the major, or through a combination of
strategies.
 The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U, 2007) describes
essential learning outcomes for general education, including: inquiry and analysis; critical
and creative thinking; written and oral communication; quantitative literacy;
information literacy; ethical reasoning; civic engagement; intercultural skills;
foundations for lifelong learning; and integration of learning.
 INSTITUTIONAL-LEVEL
•
ASSESSMENT
Step 1: Identify Outcome to be Assessed
STEPS
• Step 2: Gather Evidence of Student Achievement of Outcome
• Step 3: Put Together the Team
• Step 4: Assess the Evidence
• Step 5: Analyze the Evidence
• Step 6: Share Results
• Step 7: Using What We Have Learned
INSTITUTIONAL-LEVEL
ASSESSMENT STEPS
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
FOR YOU PATIENCE AND
CONTRIBUTION!