be like mycc ! assessing the first year experience
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Be Like MyCC ! Assessing the First Year Experience. Trudy Bers Donna Younger November 5, 2012 Oakton Community College Des Plaines, IL Younger DirectionsPalatine, IL. Assessment? Evaluation?. For our purposes… - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Be Like MyCC!Assessing the First Year Experience
Trudy BersDonna YoungerNovember 5, 2012
Oakton Community College Des Plaines, ILYounger Directions Palatine, IL
Assessment? Evaluation?For our purposes…• Assessment is any effort to gather, analyze, and interpret
evidence that describes institutional…effectiveness.• Evaluation is any effort to use assessment evidence to
improve institutional…effectivenss.• Upcraft and Schuh, 1996
Questions that Drive Assessment• Did they like it?• Did they learn it?• Can they do it?• Does it make a difference?
Kirkpatrick & Kirkpatrick, 2006
The Four Questions Applied:Assessing Orientation
• Did they like it ?– Gather student reactions at the end of the
event– Follow up during the first term to gather perceptions of the relevance of orientation- Gather reactions of faculty and staff who
participated in orientation
The Four Questions Applied:Assessing Orientation
Did they learn it?During orientation students learn to navigate the website and use the student information system.
As an assignment in the First Year Seminar, students complete a website scavenger hunt and print their transcripts. Results are used within the seminar and shared with orientation staff.
The Four Questions Applied:Assessing Orientation
Can they do it?Track the number of new students who participated in orientation who use the online registration system
The Four Questions Applied:Assessing Orientation
• Does it make a difference?• - Track the number of first term students• who enroll for the following term; • compare those who completed orientation
to those who didn’t
National Surveys
Model Institution: MyCCAttributes Supporting Assessment:• Infrastructure– Support for assessment from The Top– Technology capacity and use– Assessment initiatives in the strategic
plan– Budget process relies on assessment data– Assessment results disseminated and
used
Model Institution: MyCCAttributes Supporting Assessment:• Structure and Processes– Collaboration among Academic Affairs, Student
Affairs and Information Technology– Regular assessment of learning outcomes --
course, program, co-curricular– Program review includes all units of the
institution– Assessment embedded in delivery of services –
evaluation plan part of implementation
Model Institution: MyCCAttributes Supporting Assessment:• Design of Assessment Initiatives– Begins with a clearly articulated
purpose– Uses variety of assessment
approaches– Avoids data-overload
What is MyCC Doing?Assessment Initiative:
Examine Impact of FYEMultiple measures
1.CCSSE Follow Up: Compare 2009 and 2012 results
2.Determine students’ perceptions of orientation, advising, first year seminar; use institutional surveys to augment CCSSE/SENSE
3.Photo elicitation; determine students’ interpretations of the College’s culture regarding student success
4.Success Across the Curriculum; assess student learning outcomes
using an e-portfolio
Critique of MyCC
What do you think about MyCC’s assessment of the FYE?
Your Turn
What lessons can you learn from MyCC that would advance assessment at your institution?