60-Minute Recording of Audio Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast March 25, 2009 • $229

Mention learning outcome assessments in a group of faculty, and you’ll get the kind of reactions usually reserved for cafeteria food.

Faculty typically have strong (and negative) opinions about assessments. There’s a general feeling that assessments are burdensome, complicated, time-consuming and of questionable value.

Nevertheless, what is unquestionable is that assessments need to be done – for reasons ranging from accreditation to departmental funding.

Dr. Gary Gigliotti of Rutgers University says there are ways to engage faculty in the process, change attitudes and make assessments a more welcome part of academic life … and he’ll share those with you in a new online seminar now available on CD (originally recorded March 25, 2009).

In Five Keys: Engaging Faculty in Learning Outcomes Assessment, Dr. Gigliotti looks at the “silver lining” surrounding learning outcome assessments, stressing these key points:
• Virtually all faculty are using assessments in their classes right now … it’s simply a matter of bringing them to light.
• Assessments deliver concrete benefits to faculty who create them.
• There is a “painless” route to assessment creation, through synergy and simplicity … and it also produces the best results.
• The real challenge is not in the assessments, but in the changes they lead to. Change takes courage, but it also creates growth, personally and professionally.
• Research into assessment methods is as significant as research into the discipline. It should be rewarded.

Dr. Gigliotti will show how those messages can be carried effectively to faculty, and how they can be used to build engagement and commitment throughout the assessment process.

In this fact-filled, 60-minute audio presentation, you’ll learn how to:
• Examine current departmental activities and identify which are types of assessment.
• Refine and codify these activities as assessment practices.
• Develop departmental learning goals that are revealed through current practices.
• Use goals to create an assessment plan that emphasizes faculty engagement.
• Develop a sustainable assessment structure.
• Create research opportunities based on faculty’s own curricular interests.

Listen to a preview

With the importance of assessments to your university, it’s essential that your faculty be fully committed to – and engaged in – the process. Don’t miss this idea-filled presentation now on CD!

Who will benefit from this seminar on CD:
• Department Chairs
• Professors
• Deans and Associate Deans
• Provosts
• Vice Presidents

Featured Higher Education Presenter:


    Gary A. Gigliotti

60-Minute Recording of Audio Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast March 25, 2009 • $229

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