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This activity was designed to improve institutional effectiveness
by strengthening education outcomes assessment
and increasing our capacity to respond
to student needs. It provided a specialized
database and information system that
generates timely information at both the
student and institutional levels. This
data supports decision-making at Landmark
College and allows us to pinpoint areas
of student need. The ultimate result was
increased student achievement and satisfaction.
The activity is broken into two parts: Student
Response System and Student
Outcomes Assessment.
Student Response System
The goal was to increase computerized student information support through the following four projects:
1. Support Services Tracking: Student Use of Services
The ability to access resources outside the
classroom to enhance learning is an important
part of student development. A database
has been designed to track when students
visit a support service and for what purpose.
This database is currently being used by
all of the Centers for Academic Support
and the Academic Consulting Office (ACO).
Benefits include:
• Easy access to data pertaining to student usage;
• Facilitation of communication between diverse campus constituents;
• Capacity to generate reports throughout the semester (i.e. for parents' weekend, team meetings).
2. ISIS — Internet Student Information System
ISIS is a web-based data entry and look-up
system of student information, including
attendance, work completion, and grades. The program is used by students,
instructors, advisors,
and administrators to complement and take
advantage of PowerCAMPUS and the Support Services Tracking database.
Benefits include:
• An Early Warning System for identifying students who are not
making progress in developmental, academic,
and student life areas;
• Aggregate data about student progress, success, and interventions;
• Gradebook;
• Easily accessible informational picture, which grows over time.
3. E-Portfolio — under development
The e-portfolio is a student-driven, online
version of the Self Notebook.
Benefits include:
• A learner-centered tool that will actively engage students in
the learning processes associated with informed
decision making, planning, and goal setting;
• Independent, consistent access to the processes, resources, and advising that enable students to become more self-directed;
• Flexible, multi-dimensional, summative picture of all types of learning for use as a tool for presentation, self-assessment, and career and academic planning.
Student Outcomes Assessment
The goal of this portion of the grant was to create an ongoing comprehensive
process of evaluation aimed at understanding
and improving student learning and development.
It focuses on measuring the results derived
from participation in the Landmark College
education program and ensures that what
students learn matches our institution's
stated mission and goals. We assess student
learning and experience at each stage of
progression through the College: as students
enter, are enrolled, graduate, and even
after they leave. Information
gained through this type of evaluation
are used for informed change and continuous
program improvement.
Outcomes Assessment Projects To Date:
First Year Experience
• Orientation Feedback
• Entering Students' Purpose and Goals
• Learning Community Surveys
• Self and Community Course Evaluations
Additional Education Program Assessments
• Departmental and course-specific core indicators and academic
outcomes
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Assistive Technology Notebook Computer Survey
• Writing Center Survey
• Reading and Study Skills Center Survey
Graduation and Beyond
• Exiting Student Questionnaire
• Tracking Student Success After Landmark
Other Assessments
• Survey on Building a Model of Assessment
• Focus Groups, Summer 2001
• Faculty Survey
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High School summer program assessment
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