Improving Student Learning Through Assessment

IEA

Institutional Efectiveness Associates

For more information about Institutional Effectiveness Associates, please visit the IEA website:

Institutional Effectiveness Associates Presents:

"Improving Student Learning
Through Assessment"
6th Annual Workshop

October 18-19, 2007
Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Bemis International Conference Center, St. Norbert College

Download The Workshop Brochure & Agenda

Registration:
$495 for 2-day workshop per participant, or $449 each if 3 or more attend from same institution.

Space is limited—make your reservations today!

REGISTER ONLINE

Payment must accompany registration. For your convenience, we accept MasterCard and Visa.

Accommodations:
Please make your reservations directly with the hotel and refer to the "Higher Education Assessment
Workshop" when calling to receive the special $84.95 workshop rate. Continental breakfast and airport transfers are provided. The hotel reservation deadline is October 10, 2007 .

Kress Inn 1-800-221-5070

Getting to the Workshop:
The workshop will be conducted in the F. K. Bemis Conference Center
on the St. Norbert College campus.

For those flying: The nearest airport is Austin Straubel, located in Green
Bay, about 6 miles from the campus. The airport is served by Northwest,
United and American Airlines. The Kress Inn provides a free shuttle service, or if you prefer, car rental is available through Avis, Budget, Hertz or National Car Rental.

For those driving: St. Norbert College is easily accessed from I-41 or
I-43. Visitor parking is located on the corner of Third and Grant Streets.
Maps and directions are available online: www.snc.edu/communications/
aboutsnc/directions.html

For more information, please contact:

Continuing Education Institute

Doreen Klinkenberg
St. Norbert College
100 Grant Street
De Pere, WI 54115

Phone: 920-403-3100
Fax: 920-403-4067
E-mail: continuinged@snc.edu

Goal:

Through an active learning experience, participants will be able to
address and facilitate the assessment of student learning outcomes
resulting from their own institution’s educational programs.

Objectives:

Learn the mission-oriented context in which instructional programs
reside, and the need for assessing the student learning outcomes
resulting from such student experiences.
Understand the formulation of student learning outcomes and ways
in which your institution can assess the level of success it has had
in achieving these learning outcomes.
Examine processes that help to see how the results of assessment
efforts are used to revise and improve student learning.

Outcomes:

   1. Recognize the need for assessing student learning outcomes.
   2. Formulate relevant outcomes.
   3. Establish the process for assessing learning outcomes.
   4. Understand how to improve student learning.
   5. Be able to document recommended changes resulting from this process.

Workshop Presenters:

	DR. JAMES O. NICHOLS is a well-known national and international speaker and author with over twenty years experience in the area of institutional effectiveness and assessment. He has consulted with over 400 institutions in every accrediting association in the United States. He is the primary author of six publications which have sold over sixty thousand copies including the most recent publication, Road Map for Improvement of Student Learning and Support Services through Assessment, 2005. Jim has recently retired as Director of University Planning and Institutional Research and Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Mississippi in order to devote full time to institutional effectiveness and assessment.
	DR. ELIOT S. ELFNER, Professor of Business Administration at St. Norbert College and charter member of the Institutional Effectiveness Associates summer staff, brings to the workshop vast experience as a facilitator and workshop presenter. Known for his keen insights and comprehensive views of higher education, he has been a frequent presenter for AAHE Assessment and HLC-NCA Annual Conferences and participated in the HLC Regional Seminars of Assessment of Student Academic Achievement. Eliot is the author of “Means of Assessment and Criteria for Success for Instructional Programs— Developing Rubrics as a Means of Assessment” and “Assessment in General Education” in Dr. Nichol’s most recent work, A Road Map for Improvement of Student Learning And Support Services Through Assessment, 2005. He has frequently presented the topic of assessing general education and values outcomes to a variety of faculty groups.
	KAREN W. NICHOLS is a National Board Certified and Reality Therapy trained counselor, and served over ten years in student affairs administration at the University of Mississippi. Her interest in comprehensive institutional assessment has prompted recent publications providing guidance to institutions regarding assessment in administrative and educational support areas. She is the lead author of The Department Head’s Guide to Assessment Implementation in Administrative and Educational Support Units. She is also author of “Implementation of Institutional Effectiveness Within Administrative Support Departments” in A Road Map for Improvement of Student Learning And Support Services Through Assessment, 2005.