COMMUNITY PROFILE

Assessment of Institutional Measures
for Student Learning Using Technology (AIM)

Assessment of Institutional Measures (AIM) for Improved Student Learning Using Technology will be our project. Ultimately, the project will provide assessment data that can be utilized to continuously improve student learning outcomes. The AIM project is important to our new learning community, our students and Hocking College because it will deepen our commitment to the assessment of student learning. We want to ensure that our assessment efforts reflect student progress and include educational results- accomplished learning outcomes, higher order learning skills, affective development, and professional skills. Evidence that graduates have attained institutional outcomes within our general education core through evaluation of Success Skill mastery reports on the new web-site will increase our accountability to all stakeholders. AIM members will have opportunity to dialogue about student learning and explore mechanisms to measure student performance related to the Success Skills through E-Portfolio Work Center evaluation.  The group will explore ways to improve educational practices through discussion about pedagogy, instructional design, curricular and co-curricular elements, educational resources and ways to encourage increased use of educational technologies across campus. Dialogue and discussion will lead to modifications or changes in educational practices and pedagogy which ultimately strengthen student achievement resulting in advanced institutional and student learning.

• Explore teaching/learning strategies that will enhance student understanding of the assessment process and develop a plan for faculty to embed these strategies throughout the curriculum using technology.

• Develop a plan for internal and external review of institutional measures (Success Skills artifacts) stored in Electronic Portfolio Work Centers of graduating students.Feedback gained from institutional assessment will improve the teaching/learning process.

• Complete a pilot project of the institutional assessment process for one Success Skill using artifacts from the Electronic Portfolio Work Centers.

•  Provide assessment information to the larger educational community of students, faculty, staff, general public, other institutions, and accrediting agencies through the creation of an Assessment Website. Creation of this  Assessment Website  will help to meet  the Ohio Regents  request that all institutions develop an institutional  Success Plan , which will be posted on line so that interested citizens, prospective students and other stakeholders  can have instant access to the academic  expectations and opportunities available at each campus in the state.

• Support professional development opportunities and dialogue that will prepare learning community members to provide peer and mentor assistance to other members of the Hocking College community regarding institutional assessment and use of technology to enhance learning. 

AIM will create an Assessment Website that will be helpful to students, faculty, and external stakeholders.  The web-site will feature electronic text, search technologies, virtual applets, audio clips, video, and data bases of assessment information, digital images and animation. Visitors to the site will be able to:

• Learn about the importance of the assessment process.
• Obtain information about the Hocking College assessment process.
• Review resources on assessment practices and methods designed to improve student learning through increased use of technology including scoring rubrics, learning research, and discipline-based pedagogy.
• Access program level assessment portfolios containing program descriptions, the program’s individual and annual plans for student academic achievement. These portfolios will provide evidence representing the achievement of program outcomes.
• Recognize institutional commitment to the assessment process by reviewing institutional level assessment portfolios containing documentation that confirms student mastery of the Success Skills, Hocking’s institutional outcomes.
• Response rates to graduate/alumni and employer surveys  that are used as indirect measures will improve as a result of increased student awareness of the importance of the assessment process.

    Creation of this digital website resource will assist  students, faculty and public audiences to acknowledge  Hocking College’s  commitment to the assessment of student learning and will foster dialogue  across  the campus  and with other higher education communities  related to the  interpretation of assessment results and the need to continually support efforts and innovations that improve student learning. Additionally, the Assessment Website will demonstrate accountability for student learning to students, the public, accreditors, legislators, and the Ohio Board of Regents.

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