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Audio Online Seminar • Wednesday, September 16, 2009 • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT • $274
It’s a fundamental question when assessing student learning …
What does success look like?
Establishing standards is a difficult process. But with assessments taking on increasing importance–not just within your institution but as criteria for accreditation and funding–it’s essential that you create clear and meaningful measures of achievement.
In a new, 90-minute online seminar coming September 16, Linda Suskie, vice president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, will share strategies for developing assessment standards that give a true measure of your students’ accomplishments.
In How Good Is Good Enough? Setting Benchmarks or Standards, you’ll learn:
• The relative merits of local standards, peer benchmarks and value-added benchmarks.
• Why it’s helpful to consider more than one type of standard.
• How to develop standards for both individual and collective student performance.
• How to involve others on your campus in standard-setting.
• How to use rubrics to articulate local standards.
• When and why to consider multiple standards for both minimally acceptable and exemplary performance.
• How to use student work to inform your development of standards.
• And much more.
Listen to a preview
An internationally recognized speaker, author and consultant on assessment issues, Linda Suskie is uniquely qualified to provide a real-world perspective on assessments and practical, proven tips for making them work.
Includes a special “ask the expert” session
You can submit questions at any time during this live, interactive event, for discussion during a dedicated Q&A session. It’s a great way to fine-tune your understanding, troubleshoot your own assessment programs, and hear the experiences of other attendees from campuses nationwide.
An excellent value
In challenging economic times, you don’t have to forgo your professional development … you just have to be smart about it. Magna Online Seminars like this one are certainly a smart choice; they cost just a fraction of what off-campus events do, and carry none of the incidental expenses for travel, lodging, meals, etc.
The fee for this online seminar is a modest $274. Better still, it applies per site, not per person. That means you can invite others from your campus to attend, and it won’t cost you a penny more. Simply sign on from a conference room, lecture hall, or any facility large enough to accommodate your group!
Who should attend:
• Chief academic officers
• Deans
• Assistant/associate provosts/vice presidents for academic affairs
• Assessment coordinators/directors
• Assessment committee members
• Institutional research directors
• Student development staff
• Academic administrators
• Faculty governance leaders
• Department chairs
More and more, assessments are playing a key role in your institution’s accreditation and funding. And more and more, they’re shaping your administration’s decisions about proper allocation of limited resources. For these and other reasons, it’s important to get them right. Be sure to attend this eye-opening seminar!
Don’t miss Part II of our Assessment series!
Linda Suskie will also present Summarizing and Using Assessment Results, another online seminar, on October 7. In it, she’ll take a careful look at the best ways to leverage your assessment results. Or click here to learn how you can save 25% by registering for both seminars together!
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Audio Online Seminar • Wednesday, September 16, 2009 • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT • $274
Date(s): 09/16/09
Time: 12:00 PM Central Daylight Time - See other time zones above
Cost: $274.00
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