Join the Assessment Team

Assessment is an important part of the InTeGrate effort to create new teaching materials and implement them in the undergraduate curriculum. We are seeking faculty and evaluation specialists to join us in the assessment of new curriculum materials and courses. Please use this form to indicate your interest in joining the assessment team. We will select the final team in January 2012.

• Design the assessment program, develop needed instruments or tools, support the development and implementation teams, and evaluate the curriculum materials.
• Work with module and course developers to make sure that all materials are aligned with the project goals and are designed on the basis of research on learning.
• Focus on measuring the impact of materials on student learning. They will guide the development teams in embedding assessments that will allow monitoring of students' progress toward learning goals suitable for the project.
• Select and/or build instruments to create a suite of measures that specifically address the project goals of increasing students' geoscience literacy, understanding of the process of science, and interdisciplinary problem solving ability.

This assessment team will form a ten-person working group led by David Steer (University of of Akron) and Ellen Iverson (SERC).

The assessment team will meet as a group twice this year and once a year in following years. In addition, most members will attend at least one meeting of their assigned curriculum development team once per year. We seek members who are willing to commit to at least 3 years of participation. Team members will receive a stipend of $5000 per year which reflects a commitment to 1 month of effort. All travel expenses will be covered by the project grant. Stipends and travel grants are only available to US Citizens and permanent residents.