Agenda: Assessing Learning in Off-Campus Study

Monday, June 25 | 177 N. State St., Suite 700

12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch

1:00-1:15 pm: Welcome; goals for meeting; overview of May workshop

John Ottenhoff (Vice President, ACM)
Christopher Welna (President, ACM)

1:15-1:45 pm: Overview session on approaches to assessment

Framework about assessment practices, and methodologies and information about relevant data in the Wabash National Study
Handout: Assessment for Improvement (Acrobat (PDF) 54kB Jun25 12)

Charlie Blaich (Director, Center of Inquiry at Wabash College and the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS))
Kathy Wise (Associate Director of Inquiries, Center of Inquiry at Wabash College)

1:45-2:30 pm: Roundtable discussions (assigned small groups)

Describe the off-campus program options on your campus (college-run, third-party provider, etc.): How do you currently assess these programs? What works well and what doesn't? How does your institutions connect off-campus learning and assessment of learning to on-campus learning and assessment?

2:30-3:00 pm: Reporting out (full group)

3:00-3:15 pm: Break

3:15-4:15 pm: Integrating Study Abroad Assessment into Institutional Practice

Betsy Brewer (Director, International Education, Beloit College)
Helena Kaufman (Director of Off-Campus Studies, Carleton College)

4:14-4:45 pm: Reviewing Learning from Study Abroad survey results

Tom McGuiness (Doctoral Candidate, Center for the Study of Higher & Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan)
John Ottenhoff

4:45-5:30 pm: Discussion

What did we learn through the Learning from Study Abroad survey instrument? What might be improved in the instrument? How can we use this survey tool as a basis for moving forward?

5:30-8:00 pm: Dinner (location to be determined)

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Tuesday, June 26 | 177 N. State St., Suite 700

9:00-10:00 am: Developing an off-campus and student-learning assessment toolkit

Charlie Blaich and Kathy Wise

10:00-11:15 am: Working session (small groups)

Given the variety of assessment tools just presented, what could you envision using or adapting for off-campus study programs?

Session goal: Determine what overall approach, based on one or a mix of assessment methods, you would recommend for your institution in general and also for third-party collaborators, such as the ACM.