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Curtis, Nicholas; Anderson, Robin – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2021
In her April 2010 NILOA paper, "Opening Doors to Faculty Involvement in Assessment," Pat Hutchings called for institutions to involve students in assessment, citing the potential to increase faculty engagement. In Curtis and Anderson (2020), the first author interviewed numerous partnership experts in both the United Kingdom and the…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Outcomes of Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Outcome Measures
Muller, Kristyn; Gradel, Kathleen; Deane, Susan; Forte, Michele; McCabe, Ryan; Pickett, Alexandra M.; Piorkowski, Rob; Scalzo, Kim; Sullivan, Rachel – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2019
Online education can be leveraged to help current students complete their degrees and to attract new students. While online learning is not new, in recent years, it has been moving away from the periphery of higher education and becoming a central component of institutional strategies for increasing student enrollment, retention, and completion.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Student Evaluation, Higher Education
Jankowski, Natasha A.; Timmer, Jennifer D.; Kinzie, Jillian; Kuh, George D. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2018
Over the past decade, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) has been documenting what colleges and universities are doing to gather evidence about student learning and helping institutions to productively use assessment data to strengthen undergraduate education. NILOA also has been monitoring how institutions communicate…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Higher Education
Marshall, David W. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2017
Tuning, as a methodology, implies a philosophy of curriculum design, pedagogy, and assignment design. It implies that successful study in a discipline depends on intentional construction of learning experiences for students. Intentional construction of learning experiences requires an understanding of the learning goals set forth by faculty for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Educational Objectives
Singer-Freeman, Karen; Bastone, Linda – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2016
Many students begin their college experience enrolled in large introductory classes. These classes are likely to enroll students who are at risk of leaving college without a degree. As such, these classes have the potential to reach at-risk students including first-year, first-generation, undeclared, and underrepresented minority (URM) students.…
Descriptors: Small Classes, Class Size, Large Group Instruction, Evidence Based Practice
Jankowski, Natasha A.; Giffin, Laura – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2016
Following the release of the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) in 2011, many institutions of various types tried out different ways to use the DQP. Although over 680 institutions have used the DQP to date, until now the impact of the DQP on institutions and students has not been documented in a systematic manner. To determine the effects of DQP…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Educational Improvement, Institutional Cooperation, Departments
Hutchings, Pat; Jankowski, Natasha A.; Ewell, Peter T. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2014
The Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) first released by Lumina Foundation in 2011 and revised in 2014 sets forth a vision of what students should know and be able to do at the associate, bachelor's, and master's levels. It also carries an important message about assessment. Unlike the popular model of assessment as a sampling of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Degree Requirements, Assignments