2014 Symposium on Assessment
Faculty, staff, and graduate students participated in UC Santa Cruz's first assessment symposium held on October 17, 2014. The event featured presentations and round table discussions by faculty and graduate students from UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced about assessing student learning, evidence-based improvement, and mentoring graduate students in pedagogy and assessment.
Below are many of the presentations and discussions from the symposium.
Program Assessment at UCM
Laura Martin, Coordinator of Institutional Assessment, UC MercedDIY Tools for Grad Program Assessment: An Approach and Some Examples
Rick Dale, Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, UC MercedAssessment and Curriculum Development
Yue Lei, LSOE, Applied Mathematics, UC MercedOverview: Council of Graduate Schools Grant Project
Anne Zanzucchi, Co-Director, MWP; LPSOE School of Social Science, Humanities, and Arts and Angela Winek, Coordinator CGS Project; Lecturer, MWPCGS Learning Community Dynamic and Related Teaching Project: Thorough Feedback to Support Scientific Writing Skills
Carrie Menke, LPSOE, Physics and Leily Kiani, Graduate Student, Physics (Faculty Mentor and Graduate Student Partnership)What Does Our Graduate Mentorship Communicate To Graduate Students About Pedagogy and Assessment? Some Reflections on Narrowing the Divide. Tyrus Miller, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Assessment as a Tool for Program Design in Sociology
Amy Moffat, Graduate Student (project partnership with Nella Van Dyke, Associate Professor, UCM)Assessment Support: UCM's Students Assessing Teaching and Learning (SATAL) Program.
Adriana Signorini, UC Merced Assessment Coordinator, Center for Research on Teaching ExcellenceUCSC's Institutional Research, Assessment & Policy Studies: Supporting faculty with in-depth analysis of direct and indirect evidence
Rose Grose and Erin Toolis, Graduate Student Researchers in Institutional Research, Assessment & Policy Studies, UC Santa CruzAssessment as Pedagogy: Course to Program
led by Carrie Menke, Physics, UC MercedRepresenting Assessment: Tenure and the Job Market
led by Mike Dawson, Associate Professor, Evolutionary Biology, UC MercedHow do Entry Level Biology Students Learn and Succeed at UC Merced
Sarah Abboud, Graduate Student, Biology and Liza-Gomez Diaglio, Graduate Student, Biology, UC MercedImproving Oral Reading Skills Through Topic Engagement.
Mabel Bowser, Graduate Student, World Cultures (Foreign Languages), UC MercedStudent Self Assessment as a Learning Tool in Calculus.
Mario Banuelos, Graduate Student, Applied Mathematics, UC Merced
Program Learning Outcomes Assessment
Mentoring Graduate Students in Assessment and Pedagogy
Assessment Support
Critical Issues in Learning Assessment: Roundtable Discussions
Assessment as Pedagogy
