APSSA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assessment of Programs and Services in Student Affairs
Professional Development Workshops for 2007

Opportunities to Learn New Evaluation Skills or Hone Existing Ones


Identifying and Writing Student Learning Outcomes (3 hours)

When: Friday, September 21, 2007
Time: 8:30am to 12:00
Location: Illini Union, Room 407

Description

Student affairs professionals have a particular responsibility for ensuring that our campus is a true learning community committed to providing “transformative” educational experiences for all students. Gail Rooney and Julia Melka from the Career Center and Jeehae Ahn and I from the Assessment Office will be conducting a joint interactive workshop on writing student learning outcomes. This workshop will focus on how to identify student learning experiences in Student Affairs and articulate student learning outcomes for your respective programs and services that may help focus and re-direct your program development and improvement efforts.

You will walk away from this workshop with:
  1. ...an understanding of the process for defining learning outcomes.
  2. ...at least two learning outcomes that are tailored to your context, your unique program or service.
  3. ...knowledge and skill necessary to continue to identify and write other student learning outcomes when you return to your home department or program.

You are encouraged to come in a team of 2 to 5 people from your area. However, this is not a prerequisite. Please come prepared with a copy of your department or program’s mission statement and goals.


Performance Assessment: Identifying and Clarifying Program Goals and
Outcomes in Student Affairs (3 hours)

When: Friday, September 14, 2007
Time: 9:00am to 12:00
Location: Arcade Multi-purpose Room
Description:

These days it's impossible not to have heard of performance assessment (PA), but what exactly is it? Why are so many program managers moving toward it? Why do so many funders require it? How can Student Affairs professionals use PA to identify program goals and outcomes? How can staff use PA most effectively to improve programs and document accomplishments?

Explore all these things in this hands-on, highly interactive workshop. Working in small groups, you will learn PA step-by-step, working with real programs and developing real products. Then, materials in hand, leave prepared to apply your learning to programs back in your department.

You will learn:
  1. How to specify a program's logic model and choose which desired outcomes to measure
  2. How to develop measurable indicators - the heart of an effective PA system
  3. How to gather data on these indicators and analyze these data usefully
  4. How to report PA findings in understandable, and useful ways


If you have any questions, please call Tom Grayson at 333-7336 or e-mail tgrayson@uiuc.edu

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