9:00 – 9:10

Welcome remarks by Jody Greene, Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning & Director, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, UC Santa Cruz

9:10 – 10:30

Session 1: Conducting program-level assessment in undergraduate programs

Faculty and staff from UC Santa Cruz, Davis, and San Diego will share their experiences and ideas about conducting assessment with the goal of informing course- and program-level decisions.

A yoked approach to course and program assessment: A pilot study on sustainable assessment practices using Canvas LMS, Heather Hether, Department of Communication, UC Davis

Assessing Writing Improvement in a Disciplinary Communication (DC) course: Expect the Unexpected, Jody Greene, Literature Department, and Anna Sher, IRAPS, UC Santa Cruz

Assessment that Leads to Understanding of Students’ Mathematical Preparation to Inform and Enact Student Success Interventions from Algebra to Calculus, Susan Rinaldi, Teaching + Learning Commons, UC San Diego

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00

Session 2: Assessing the impact of course-level innovations in teaching and learning

UC Santa Cruz faculty will share their experiences with assessing the impact of teaching practices to better support student learning in large classes.

Next Steps: Using Assessment to Develop a Comprehensive Writing Curriculum in Sociology, Tonya Ritola, Writing Program, UC Santa Cruz

An Evaluation of Learning Outcomes for A Large Lecture Biology Course, Robin Dunkin, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department, UC Santa Cruz

Measuring the Impact of Structured Learning Opportunities on Student Experience and Learning in a Large Physics Course, Alexander Sher, Physics Department, UC Santa Cruz

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

Optional UCSC Arboretum Tour led by Dr. Martin Quigley, Executive Director

1:00 – 1:50

Session 3: Rethinking the value of assessment from a student perspective 

Round table discussions will focus on a variety of topics including:

• Helping students understand and articulate skills they acquire in courses and co-curricular and extracurricular programs.  
• Using assessment tools such as rubrics, surveys, and self-reflection assignments as teaching tools in undergraduate programs and graduate programs
• Impact of using rubrics for grading on students’ perceptions of their skills

1:50 – 2:00

Coffee break

2:00 – 3:30

Session 4: Assessment of learning in Student Success/Student Affairs units

Capturing Career-Readiness Competencies Beyond the Classroom at UC San Diego, Shawna Hook-Held, Engaged Learning Tools Specialist, Teaching + Learning Commons, UC San Diego

Focusing on Learning Outcomes to Create New Practices and Tools in the Career Center and a Campus-Wide Framework to Facilitate Students’ Career Readiness, Barbara Silverthorne, Sheila Rodriguez, John Rembao, Caitlin Stinneford (Career Center), and Anna Sher, IRAPS, UC Santa Cruz

3:30 – 3:40

Closing remarks