2024 Assessment Conference

Assessment Conference and Series 2024-25

Next level assessment: Taking assessment to new heights

Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs

September 20, 2024

This year's conference will be held in-person at The Blackwell on September 20. Our theme is Next level assessment - taking assessment to new heights. 

This year’s conference will take your assessment practices to “new heights” through in-depth sessions on a variety of topics, from new software tools to graduate program assessment. A highlight of this year’s conference will be the assessment of the transfer student experience, including the general education curriculum, program completion, and next steps in accreditation.

Regsiter for the 2024 Assessment Conference

Assessment Basics, Plenary descriptions

Time TBA.

During this interactive session, participants will learn about the fundamental components of program assessment, design a basic plan for use in their own context, and discuss the benefits of assessment for faculty, staff and students.

Presenters

  • Larry Hurtubise, PhD
  • Daniel Seward, PhD

Assessment of General Education: Where are We Now

Developing and implementing a shared assessment process for any program, especially one as large and decentralized as General Education, requires time and broad collaboration. Presenters will share the process of convening and coordinating stakeholders and experts to date, organizing outreach and data collection, and some of the results and lessons learned. We have invited many of our collaborators to attend and share their perspectives as well. 

Meg Daly, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
Alan Kalish, Assistant Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education

A discussion of the transfer student experience

This panel will discuss the University’s quality initiative regarding the transfer student experience as part of the 2027 Higher Learning Commission accreditation.  

Randy Smith (moderator)
Meg Daly - Evaluation of Transfer Credit
Ann Talbot - Campus Change
Norman Jones and Shanna Jaggers - Degree pathways: IT and Columbus State
Rob Griffiths - Continuing Education
Kia Fletcher - Access issues

2024 Schedule

 

What

Who

Check-in and coffee

 

Welcome

Randy Smith - Vice Provost for Academic Programs
Karla Zadnik - Interim Executive Vice President and Provost

Opening Plenary

Assessment of General Education: Where are We Now?

Meg Daly, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
Alan Kalish, Assistant Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education

Concurrent sessions 1

Including Grad Students and Lecturers in Major Program Assessment: Philosophy’s Assessment of Critical Thinking 

Amy Shuster, staff and associated faculty
Matt Willis, Senior Lecturer
Layne Garrelts, Graduate Student
Jacob MacDavid, Graduate Student
Dan Seward, ASC Assessment Coordinator

Using Carmen Canvas data for student learning assessment

Mitsu Narui, PhD, Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment, Office of Institutional Research and Planning

Data about Writing at Ohio State and its Potential Implications for Our Curriculum 

Chris Manion

Concurrent sessions 2

 

Role of Chemistry courses in Persistence in BSPS

Janet Antwi, Ph.D.
Nick Denton, Ph.D. 
Katie Smillie, 
Senior Data Analytics Specialist, Office of Institutional Research and Planning

Instruction and Assessment Practices for Continuing and Transfer Student Success

David Sovic, Assistant Director, Drake Institute for Teaching & Learning

Facilitating Success in Graduate Advising through Stakeholder-Centered Assessment

Mitsu Narui, Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment, Office of Institutional Research and Planning
Gary Pierzynski, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Assessing Learning Outcomes in OSU’s Graduate Programs: Some Data and Some Dialogue

Lisa Kowalsky
Dan Seward
Maria Miriti

Closing Plenary

A discussion of the transfer student experience

Randy Smith - Moderator
Meg Daly - Evaluation of Transfer Credit
Ann Talbot - Campus Change
Norman Jones and Shanna Jaggers - Degree pathways: IT and Columbus State
Rob Griffiths - Continuing Education
Kia Fletcher - Access issues

Intended Takeaways

  1. Learn

    Learn about the latest tools and assessment strategies employed by experts at Ohio State. 

  2. Connect

    Build relationships with colleagues across the university working on assessment.

  3. Engage

    Continue conversations around assessment in the coming weeks and months.