The 学生事务处 is committed to an integrative approach to student learning and to assessing and strengthening co-curricular 项目 on a regular basis. The Office recognizes and values that student learning is most effective when students are able to make meaningful connections across their many educational experiences, both curricular and co-curricular.
This outlines how 学生事务 will systematically assess and strategically improve connections where it will impact student learning the most. The College’s educational objectives are used as a guiding framework to create a plan for assessment and review of co-curricular 项目. This approach should result in improved student learning and further integration of academic and campus life.
- Each of the major 项目 overseen by 学生事务 has developed goals and student learning outcomes.
- 每个项目将:
- Use existing and develop new assessment tools to determine whether student learning outcomes are being achieved
- Review assessment results and use them to guide change where needed
- Find and create alignment and overlap with relevant 项目 and constituencies in Academic Affair
- Conduct overall program reviews.
- In addition to assessment of specific co-curricular 项目, it is important to review larger 项目 and use the resulting information to improve the overall quality of 项目, as well as to ensure that they are in alignment with the College’s educational objectives.
- 学生事务 has conducted larger program reviews periodically: the Center for Asian Pacific American Students (CAPAS) in 2005-06 and Career 服务 in 2010-11. The plan going forward is to systematically cycle through major program reviews and to conduct regular co-curricular program reviews.
In an effort to be more intentional and strategic, not every event or initiative will be assessed; rather the focus will be on major 项目 and those with the strongest connection to the academic program and the College’s educational objectives.
工作人员 will engage in a regular process of clarifying goals and outcomes, 开发评估工具, conducting assessments and collecting information, then using this information to inform decisions and future directions regarding 项目 and co-curricular student learning.
同时, assessment of student learning in specific 项目 in 学生事务 will be conducted on a schedule based on when they occur, and in relation to the College’s educational objectives. 例如, all new students participating in the 取向的冒险 program and 新生迎新 this year will be required to complete surveys that not only measure their satisfaction with the 项目, but assess what they learned in terms of content knowledge and skill acquisition
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