Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs

Personnel
A number of people on campus play a role in understanding how students learn and what the student experience is like.  Faculty take the lead in understanding and improving student learning in and across courses and academic departments. The individuals listed below have responsibility for assessment and institutional research on a macro level:

Anne Goodsell Love, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Assessment

Rosemary Anastasio, Director of Institutional Research

Angelo Araimo, Vice President for Enrollment and Planning

Dilawar Grewal, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Institutional Technology and Effectiveness

Articles

Evaluating Student Learning. (2007). In Student Learning Assessment:
Options and Resources (2nd ed., p. 34-36). Philadelphia: Middle States
Commission on Higher Education.

Napoli, A. and Raymond,  L.  (2004) .  How reliable is our assessment data? A comparison of the reliability of data produced in graded and un-graded conditions.  Research in Higher Education 45(8), 921-929.

Websites

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment. "NILOA’s primary objective is to discover and disseminate ways that academic programs and institutions can productively use assessment data internally to inform and strengthen undergraduate education, and externally to communicate with policy makers, families and other stakeholders." (from the NILOA website) 

Measuring Quality in Higher Education. 

• an inventory of resources designed to assist higher education faculty and staff in assessing academic and support programs as well as institutional effectiveness, more broadly:
  • instruments (examinations, surveys, questionnaires, etc.)
  • software tools and platforms
  • benchmarking systems and data resources
  • projects, initiatives and services
    

Critical Thinking for Civic Thinking (CT2)

Describes a National Science Foundation grant investigating:

• the relationship between critical thinking and civic thinking
• how to improve critical thinking and civic thinking in students using already existing courses
• how to directly assess any improvement in critical thinking and civic thinking skills

Faculty and Staff: For more information about our assessment initiatives please visit our MOODLE SITE and use your username and password to enter the site. It contains resources and tools to guide you in your assessment work.