Creating, Collaborating and Implementing Authentic Assessments in Teaching

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Creating, Collaborating and Implementing
Authentic Assessments in Teaching

• Working post-Immersion..
• LSTA Information Literacy Grant
• February 24, 2006
• Highline

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Todays Agenda shaped by the Grant

• Collaborating and implementing authentic
  assessments with faculty
• Spending our money
• Sharing what we do
• Self-assessing our Information Literacy programs

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How are we working with Assessment today?

• Assessment can happen at many levels
• System (CTCs or WA higher education)
• Institutional (Highline)
• Program (Library)
• Student (observation, behavior, performance)
• Todays focus is on assessment of student
  learning
• What evidence will we have of what students can
  do as a result of our collaboration with faculty
  and our teaching?

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From Immersion about Authentic Assessment..

• The Five Questions
• What do you want the student to be able to do?
• What does the student need to know?
• Whats the learning activity?
• How will the student demonstrate the learning?
• How will I know the student has done this well?
• To close the assessment loop, we need to learn
  from the evidence and incorporate that into
  continuous improvement.

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Creating the culture of evidence

• We cant start by measuring everything
• What can we begin to know and share about our
  students abilities?
• How do we best share this vision of integrated
  information literacy with faculty?

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Activity Assessment Tools - Building our
repertoire of collaboration possibilities

• Share the tool you brought with the colleagues at
  your table
• In small groups, pick a tool that has been
  shared. Continue to develop this tool so that it
  relates to all of the Five Questions.
  (someone please take notes)
• How would you work with a faculty member to build
  in the assessment and determine the criteria?
• What will the assessment be? How are the
  students going to demonstrate their ability to
  you and the instructor?
• These will be posted on our wiki

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Break

• 10 minute break
• Move towards sitting with your schools

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Collaboration What could it look like?

• According to the grant, we will incorporate
  authentic assessments in at least three academic
  and professional/technical departments.
• (Can we shoot for four?)
• To do this, we need to
• Collaborate with faculty to design integrated
  authentic assessments
• Implement and assess (instruction and student
  performance)
• Debrief our findings (learning from the evidence,
  continuous improvement)

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Activity To accomplish the three things below in
3-4 courses

• Collaborate with faculty to design integrated
  authentic assessments
• Implement and assess
• Debrief our findings
• Create a model
• How would you approach faculty, work with faculty
  and spend 1000 (31 faculty hours) for materials
  or stipends?

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Do you need planning time or brainstorming time?

• Option A Give me this time with my school to
  plan we know what wed want to do..out of our
  way!
• Option B Where would I start? Who can I
  brainstorm with to plan
• a general workshop with faculty in order to find
  collaboration partners
• working one-on-one with faculty
• a workshop with specific faculty I want to work
  with

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Librarians who Lunch

• With your lunch mates, what are two strategies
  for recruiting faculty you havent worked with
  before?
• (or asking faculty you know to work with you in
  a different way?)
• Go sit with Karen Michaelsen (Seattle Central) if
  you want to hear about her professional leave
  project, Integrating Information Literacy into
  the College Curriculum

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Activity What do we want to know about our
assessment efforts?

• How do we want to report on Assessment
  activities? What do we want to know in common?
• Look at this draft what would you
• Add
• Delete
• Modify
• Could you use this with faculty?

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Library Self-Assessment Characteristics of
Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate
Best Practice

• From the Grant, pre and post assessments of
  information literacy programs using ACRLs Best
  Practices as the rubric.
• Would three schools volunteer to complete this
  before sending out to everyone?

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Discussion Trifecta

• Technology How can we harness technology to
  enable this work?
• Wiki how can we make it useful?
• SNAP or other survey tools what do our IR
  people have to help us?
• Tutorials? Games?
• IL and the Rising Junior
• ICCL proposed learning outcomes
• How can the 2 and 4 years work together on
  information literacy?
• Dissemination and Sharing of Project Results
• Interested in helping share our
  experiences/success?

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Good work.

• Go forth and assess!!!!