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1. Evaluation and Assessment
1.2. Assesment
Assessing Course Progress
Collecting data on how a course is progressing helps faculty to pinpoint what is working and why and to target areas for improvement. Faculty Development staff can help in three ways:
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Collecting Data
- We can help to construct or adapt early course evaluations to provide students with an opportunity to give feedback on the course.
- We can help faculty to identify or create classroom assessment techniques which are quick and easy to administer and can, for example, assess course-related knowledge and skills, learner attitudes, values and self-awareness, and learner reactions to instruction.
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Interpreting Data
- Faculty Development staff can help you analyze and interpret early course evaluations and classroom assessment data to find patterns of strengths, weaknesses, and inconsistencies of the course and the teaching style.
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Making Recommendations
- We can make recommendations for changes -- both short term (while the course is still in progress) and long term -- based on cognitive and educational principles.
Adapted from the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at Carnegie Mellon University
