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.
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
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Check-in and coffee |
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Welcome |
Randy Smith - Vice Provost for Academic Programs |
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Opening Plenary |
Assessment of General Education: Where are We Now? Meg Daly, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education |
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Concurrent sessions 1 |
Including Grad Students and Lecturers in Major Program Assessment: Philosophy’s Assessment of Critical Thinking Amy Shuster, staff and associated faculty |
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Using Carmen Canvas data for student learning assessment Mitsu Narui, PhD, Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment, Office of Institutional Research and Planning |
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Data about Writing at Ohio State and its Potential Implications for Our Curriculum Chris Manion |
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Concurrent sessions 2
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Role of Chemistry courses in Persistence in BSPS Janet Antwi, Ph.D. |
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Instruction and Assessment Practices for Continuing and Transfer Student Success David Sovic, Assistant Director, Drake Institute for Teaching & Learning |
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Facilitating Success in Graduate Advising through Stakeholder-Centered Assessment Mitsu Narui, Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment, Office of Institutional Research and Planning |
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Assessing Learning Outcomes in OSU’s Graduate Programs: Some Data and Some Dialogue Lisa Kowalsky |
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Closing Plenary |
A discussion of the transfer student experience Randy Smith - Moderator |