Course Welcome & Expectations

Instructor Introductions

Welcome from SAAL

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Course Objectives

Review concepts that contribute to sound assessment practice and a sustainable culture of evidence.
Explore and engage in the development of foundational assessment components including planning, articulating goals and outcomes, and providing feedback.
Identify and practice strategies for guiding assessment efforts across multiple functional areas and building assessment capacity among teams.
Discover ways to translate data to a story of student success and a plan for action.

Below is a curriculum map of how each course objective shows up in the respective modules:

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What to Expect

Cost: This course is free and open to anyone interested in learning more about coordinating Students Affairs assessment.

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course. Know each week's Module operates on a timed-release, meaning a new Module is available each week. Students do not have to complete anything from the previous week in order to access the new week, however. As long as content is available, students can engage with it in the order they choose.

Time Commitment: Each module should only take 1-2 hours to complete. There are 8 total modules, one to be released each week. You are welcome to complete the modules as they are released or look to only participate or engage with content meaningful to you. Either way, you will retain access to course content well after the course ends.

Module Makeup: Each week's module consists of Lecture Content, Readings, a Discussion Board Prompt, and a Quiz. Modules also provide optional Resources (activities, handouts) and Further Learning content to supplement information provided or offer direction for digging deeper into topics.

Support: The primary method of interaction with course instructors will be through the discussion boards. Feel free to utilize those spaces to pose questions related to content and instructors (or your classmates) will respond. There is also a general Help Forum to pose any miscellaneous or general questions.

Communication: You will receive weekly emails with overview information for that week's module content.

Statement of Accomplishment: Students must earn a 75% or better on quizzes in each module of the course. Quizzes are auto-graded and students are allowed up to three attempts to complete, with the system recording the highest score obtained from attempts. As pointed out in the Prerequisite section, one does not have to complete a quiz in order to access content from the next Module. However, one must complete all quizzes and earn 75% or better to obtain the Statement of Accomplishment.

What We Expect

We invite honesty, encourage understanding, and expect respect for one another. This means that we expect all students to interact with each other in a manner befitting professional dialogue through the course discussion boards. There will be opportunity for you to give feedback to one another, feedback that we expect to be positive and constructive as we all endeavor to learn together. We are here to support one another through the learning process and we hope we can all join together in learning through the content of this course.

We look forward to being part of this educational experience with you all!

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Any of the course content (lecture text, videos, resources, activities) are free to you to download, re-use, remix, and share. We only ask that you cite this course (or the original source for any campus examples, articles, or published texts).

To provide attribution, the creators of this course can be listed as “Applying and Leading Assessment in Student Affairs MOOC” with a link to Student Affairs Assessment Leaders’ website (http://studentaffairsassessment.org/online-open-course). For electronic or paper copies of any content, please provide a citation in the following format:

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders. (2017). Title of module, video, lecture page, activity [Format description]. Retrieved from https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1572.

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