Welcome to the Office of Learning Analytics and Outcomes Assessment Workshops Canvas Page!

Click below to find the agenda and presentations from our most recent workshops and search by discipline for presentations from Learning Outcomes Assessment workshops from 2017 to the present.

The links will take you to a discussion page where you can view videos and/or slide decks and contribute to a discussion. Enjoy!

April 19, 2023: Spring Learning Outcomes Assessment Workshop Presentation Videos and Discussion

Sara Grineski, PhD, Department of Sociology

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Shane Macfarlan, PhD, Department of Anthropology

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Mark St. Andre, PhD., Director of Learning Analytics and Outcomes Assessment and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies

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Seth Moucka; EAB (Predictive Analytics and Student Success Software)

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April, 13, 2022: Spring Learning Outcomes Assessment Workshop Presentation Videos and Discussion

Shannon Barrios, PhD, Department of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies

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Lex Newman, PhD, Department of Philosophy

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Ben Bromley, PhD., Department of Physics

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Kelly Broadhead, PhD; Department of Biomedical Engineering

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November, 10 2021: Fall Learning Outcomes Assessment Workshop Presentation Videos and Discussion

11:30: Mark St. Andre, PhD., Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment

Presentation and Discussion Link: Mark St. Andre, Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment

Summary: Mark introduced Chase Hagood, the new Senior Associate Voce President of Undergraduate Studies and two new analysts in the Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment. He gave some background on the Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment and describes how the office consults with departments to help facilitate assessment and describes the upcoming University-wide accreditation in 2022.

11:40: Jeanine Stefanucci, PhD.; Department of Psychology

Presentation and Discussion Link: Jeanine Stefanucci Presentation and Discussion

Summary: Dr. Stefanucci shares with us the process used by her department to review student learning outcomes at the program level and how they use the Learning Outcomes Associator and Reviewer.

12:00: Jared Rawlings, PhD.; Department of Music

Presentation and Discussion Link: Jared Rawlings Presentation and Discussion

Summary: Dr. Rawlings discusses the process of planning to assess the music department's learning outcomes and how they will move forward in how they will assess their outcomes.

12:20: Stephen Maisch, PhD., LEAP Program

Presentation and Discussion Link: Stephen Maisch Presentation and Discussion

Summary: Dr. Maisch discusses the strategies that the LEAP program uses to assess the wide-ranging disciplinary courses within a single program. He also discussed plans for future LEAP program assessment.

12:40: Casey Hoekstra, MA; Director of the Learning Center

Presentation and Discussion Link: Casey Hoekstra Presentation and Discussion

Summary: Ms. Hoekstra discusses the plan for assessing the tutoring and supplemental instruction services that are provided across campus through the learning center.

March 11, 2021: Spring Learning Outcomes Assessment Workshop Presentation Videos and Discussion

11:35: Mark St. Andre, Ph.D. ; Update on Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment Tools and Accreditation

Presentation and Discussion Link: Mark St. Andre, Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment

Summary: Mark gives some background on the Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment and describes how the office consults with departments to help facilitate assessment. He also talks about the updated Learning Outcomes Associator and Reviewer tools and describes the upcoming University-wide accreditation in 2022.

11:45: Natasha Seegert, Ph.D.; Department of Communication

Presentation and Discussion Link: Natasha Seegert Presentation and Discussion

Summary: Dr. Seegert shares with us the process and results of the five-year learning outcomes assessment report that her department completed over the past year using the Learning Outcomes Associator and Reviewer.

12:05: Sydney Cheek-O'Donnell, Ph.D.; Department of Theatre

Presentation and Discussion Link: Sydney Cheek O'Donnell Presentation and Discussion

Summary: Dr. Cheek O'Donnell discusses the process her department went through to define, edit, and re-establish her department's learning outcomes and how they now face the task of defining how they will assess their outcomes.

12:25: Donna Ziegenfuss, Ed.D.; Marriott Library, Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment

Presentation and Discussion Link: Donna Ziegenfuss Presentation and Discussion

Summary: Dr. Ziegenfuss discusses the benefits of using curriculum mapping to identify outcomes and where they are being delivered in the curriculum.

12:40: Megan Judkins, MS; Genetic Counseling Program, School of Medicine

Presentation and Discussion Link: Megan Judkins Presentation and Discussion

Summary: Ms. Judkins discusses how she uses curriculum mapping in the Genetic Counseling program.

October 21, 2020: Fall Learning Outcomes Assessment Workshop Presentation Videos and Discussion

11:30: Mark St. Andre, Ph.D. ; Update on Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment

Presentation and Discussion Link: Mark St. Andre, Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment

Summary: Mark gives some background on the Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment and describes how the office consults with departments to help facilitate assessment. He also describes the upcoming University-wide accreditation in 2022.

11:40: Tim Collins, Ph.D. ; Department of Geography

Presentation and Discussion Link: Tim Collins, Department of Geography

Summary: Dr. Collins discusses his department's assessment, a key component of which includes embedding questions in existing exams in courses and pulling them out for assessment purposes.

A brief discussion happens towards the end in which we discuss why, in general, course grades do not suffice for assessing outcomes.

12:00: Rachel Hayes-Harb, Ph.D.; Office of Undergraduate Research

Presentation and Discussion Link: Rachel Hayes-Harb, Office of Undergraduate Research

Summary: Dr. Hayes-Harb discusses the assessment of poster presentations that her Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) has developed. They have implemented this process at the University of Utah's Conference on Undergraduate Research (UCUR) and their summer conference.

12:20: Andrew Nelson, Ph.D.; Department of Film and Media Arts

Presentation and Discussion Link: Andrew Nelson, Department of Film and Media Arts

Summary: Dr. Nelson's talk focuses on their new learning outcomes and emerging assessment plan and the process his department went through to develop them. One highlight of this talk is the curriculum map that they have developed, which maps the learning outcomes across the curriculum and where they are Introduced, Developed, and Mastered.

12:40: Ruchi Watson & Jess Taverna; David Eccles School of Business

Presentation and Discussion Link: Ruchi Watson and Jess Taverna, David Eccles School of Business

Summary: This presentation summarizes the School of Business's approach to assessment including a discussion of what they are required to report for their professional accreditation through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

April 17, 2020: Learning Outcomes Assessment Workshop Presentation Videos and Discussions

11:30: Mark St. Andre, Ph.D. ; Update on Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment

Presentation and Discussion Link: Update on Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment

Summary: Mark gives some background on the Office of Learning Outcomes Assessment and describes the Associator and Reviewer Tools that the Office has developed with TLT to facilitate pulling assignments, quizzes, or quiz items out of Canvas and assessing them with a rubric.

11:40: Naina Phadnis, Ph.D. ; School of Biological Sciences Assessment

Presentation and Discussion Link: School of Biological Sciences Assessment

Summary: Dr. Phadnis discusses their assessment which has largely taken shape over the past year. Key components of her presentation include:

Mapping Expected Learning Outcomes (ELO's) to their courses with faculty feedback
Mapping assignments to outcomes in both core and required courses and labs.
Surveying students about where and to what degree they think they are meeting the outcomes.
Examining where there are "holes" in their outcome map and whether that means they need to adjust their curriculum or their outcomes.
Why course grades do not suffice for assessing outcomes.

12:00: Kelby McIntyre, MFA; Master of Fine Arts and Theatre Department Assessment

Presentation and Discussion Link: Master of Fine Arts and Theatre Department Assessment

Summary: Ms. McIntyre-Martinez discusses the following aspects of their assessment work:

• Mapping learning outcomes that intentionally build on each other throughout the curriculum
• Identifying artifacts with faculty and building rubrics that can be used across courses
• Artifacts include teaching practicum reflections, collaborative and individual assignments, and portfolios
• In Theatre department moved outcomes from using "Understand" verb to more action-oriented and measurable "Exhibit, Develop, Practice, and Connect."
• Discussed how audition forms or tapes are great pre-assessment data
• Getting feedback from faculty that students are producing more quality work when they know what is expected of them.

12:20: Don Blumenthal, Ph.D.; College of Pharmacy Assessment

Presentation and Discussion Link: College of Pharmacy Assessment

Summary: Dr. Blumenthal's talks about:

• Creating a culture of assessment from faculty up (as opposed to administration down) by showing them how it can improve quality and drive curricular change
• Surveying all stakeholders for input on outcomes including: students, faculty, alumni, employers, supervisors in clinical sites and sending results to the right people/bodies
• Assessment needs to be a team sport and involve everyone
• Assessing outcomes that are mandated by professional program accrediting board (Pharmacy)
• Curricular mapping with heat map to see where concentration of content for outcomes is in courses

12:40: Rebecca Horn, Ph.D. ; Department of History Assessment

Presentation and Discussion Link: Department of History Assessment

Summary: Dr. Horn discusses the following aspects of their assessment work:

• History is new to assessing program learning outcomes so keeping it simple.
• They are assessing two of their outcomes in one required course that happens midway through the major (HIST 3100). They assess their other three outcomes in their capstone course's end of year project.
• They are using their Undergraduate Committee as their assessment committee.
• One outcome of assessment that they are committed to is making sure students have the language to describe the skills and outcomes they have acquired as they graduate.

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