Selection of Proposals
The call for Assessment Scholar projects was issued in February 2007 by then Director of Undergraduate Assessment and Program Review Lesa Stern. Funding was available for up to three projects, at least one of which needed to focus specifically on the University's New Freshman Seminar program. Projects could also involve assessment of any University-wide student learning goal or objective.
Goals of the Assessment Scholar Program were outlined as:
- Promoting the scholarship of assessment among faculty at SIUE
- Keeping SIUE on the cutting-edge of assessment scholarship
- Assessing the New Freshman Seminar and studying University-wide student-learning initiatives/goals
Project guidelines included:
- Collecting and analyzing evidence of student learning that goes beyond “student perceptions” of their own learning
- New Freshman Seminar projects must utilize data from all forms of the class, not just a single type. These include University 112, Honors 120 courses, (CIV) Culture, Ideas & Values classes, introductory 111 courses, and learning communities
- "Wild card" projects must gather and analyze data from several departments, articulate University-wide student learning goals/initiatives, and generalize findings to the entire University community
The proposal deadline was March 30, 2007. The Committee on Assessment selected three proposals to support:
- Denise DeGarmo of Political Science, who is examining what standards faculty expect in global competency, and if SIUE students meet those expectations.
- Julia Hansen and Lydia Jackson of Library and Information Services, who are evaluating the information literacy of first-term freshmen at SIUE.
- E. Duff Wrobbel of Speech Communication, who is assessing SIUE’s New Freshman Seminar to see if it is fulfilling the established goals for the program.
Projects must be completed by 2008.
