Building Capacity for Course, Program, and Department Evaluation: Improving and Expanding the Student Assessment of Learning Gains Site

课程、项目和部门评估能力建设：改进和扩大学生学习成果评估网站

• 批准号: 0613426
• 负责人: Robert Mathieu
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0613426&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Course; Program; Department

Assessment/Research (91)The Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) instrument has proven to be a particularly effective tool for faculty seeking formative feedback to gauge progress in student learning and improve their instruction. Use of the SALG is greatly facilitated by an associated Web site that enables instructors to customize the SALG instrument, have students complete the instrument online, receive raw data and simple statistical analyses, and maintain archival access to their data. In the past 5 years, over 1,000 undergraduate instructors in over 3,000 courses serving more than 65,000 students have used the SALG.In response to ever-increasing demand for use of the SALG, this project is increasing the performance and usability of the SALG site and also expanding the site's capabilities to meet past, present, and future instructor requests for new and more diverse functionalities. In particular, (1) a broadly usable prototyped version of the instrument and site is being designed for project evaluators to support the NSF goal of improved evaluation of funded projects with cost efficiency, (2) a version appropriate for departments and other academic units is being developed, evaluated, and implemented for use in program evaluation, faculty development, and accreditation, and (3) an institutional implementation of the SALG is being pilot tested, and the knowledge gained used to prepare a road map for future use within institutions of higher education.The multidisciplinary project team includes the creators of the SALG instrument and Web site. It brings to the project extensive experience in SALG use, program evaluation of STEM educational initiatives, STEM college teaching, faculty professional development, professional Web site development, and project management.Intellectual merit. This project is a research-grounded process. It includes needs assessments, consultation with current and prospective instructor users, evaluators, and departments. It is creating new SALG instruments and Web site functions, and integrating research tools into the SALG site that will enable researchers to study SALG use and, more broadly, national evaluation trends. Broader impacts. The upgraded SALG places instructors squarely at the center of the formative evaluation process, thus ensuring their direct engagement with the processes and benefits of formative feedback. Making the SALG available for department program evaluations should connect even more faculty across the nation with the SALG and formative evaluation. This expanded use of the SALG is expected to lead to fundamental changes in the perspectives and activities of the national STEM faculty - namely, increased use of formative classroom assessment centered on student learning gains as a means of improving faculty teaching, course activities, and departmental programs throughout STEM higher education in the United States.

评估/研究 (91) 事实证明，学生学习成果评估 (SALG) 工具对于寻求形成性反馈以衡量学生学习进度并改进教学的教师来说是一个特别有效的工具。相关网站极大地方便了 SALG 的使用，该网站使教师能够定制 SALG 工具，让学生在线完成该工具，接收原始数据和简单的统计分析，并维护对其数据的存档访问。在过去的 5 年里，超过 1,000 名本科生教师在 3,000 多门课程中使用了 SALG，为超过 65,000 名学生提供服务。为了满足对 SALG 不断增长的使用需求，该项目正在提高 SALG 网站的性能和可用性，并且还扩展了网站的功能，以满足过去、现在和未来教师对新的和更多样化的功能的要求。 特别是，(1) 正在为项目评估人员设计一个可广泛使用的工具和网站原型版本，以支持 NSF 以成本效率改进对资助项目的评估的目标，(2) 适合各部门和其他学术单位的版本正在开发、评估和实施，以用于项目评估、教师发展和认证，以及 (3) SALG 的机构实施正在进行试点测试，所获得的知识用于准备未来在机构内使用的路线图高等教育.多学科项目团队包括 SALG 工具和网站的创建者。 它为该项目带来了 SALG 使用、STEM 教育计划的项目评估、STEM 大学教学、教师专业发展、专业网站开发和项目管理方面的丰富经验。智力价值。该项目是一个以研究为基础的过程。它包括需求评估、与当前和未来的讲师用户、评估者和部门的咨询。 它正在创建新的 SALG 工具和网站功能，并将研究工具集成到 SALG 网站中，这将使研究人员能够研究 SALG 的使用以及更广泛的国家评估趋势。更广泛的影响。升级后的 SALG 将教师置于形成性评估流程的中心，从而确保他们直接参与形成性反馈的流程和好处。 让 SALG 可用于部门项目评估应该将全国更多的教师与 SALG 和形成性评估联系起来。 SALG 的广泛使用预计将导致国家 STEM 教师的观点和活动发生根本性变化，即更多地使用以学生学习收益为中心的形成性课堂评估，作为改进教师教学、课程活动和部门的手段。贯穿美国 STEM 高等教育的课程。