Kick-off Event: Making Assessment Work for Liberal Arts Colleges in the 21st Century

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The workshop will be held at the Grinnell College Golf Course. Travelers have accommodations at the Country Inn & Suites.

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We will keep an eye on the weather. Please notify Vanessa Preast (preastva@grinnell.edu) by 3:00 pm Wednesday, February 26 if you are unable to attend in person. We are working on options for limited participation using distance technologies.

Friday, February 28, 2020

Time Session
8:00 AM Breakfast Buffet
9:00 AM Introduction
9:45 AM Initial Evaluation & Break
10:00 AM Leading an Assessment Project (Natasha Jankowski)
10:30 AM Break with refreshments
10:45 AM Meaningful Assessment Practice (Natasha Jankowski)
11:30 AM Personal Kickoff Goals
11:45 AM Lunch Buffet
12:45 PM Develop Elevator Pitch for Project with Mentor (Natasha Jankowski)
1:10 PM Share Elevator Pitches (Natasha Jankowski)
1:30 PM Strategy for Successful Assessment Projects
2:15 PM Keys to Successful Assessment Project Implementation (Natasha Jankowski)
2:45 PM Project Idea Posters, Part 1
3:15 PM Break & Hang Posters
3:30 PM Project Idea Posters, Part 2
4:30 PM Concluding Remarks (Natasha Jankowski)
5:00 PM Share Take-Aways
5:30 PM Break and Cash Bar
6:00 PM Dinner Buffet
7:30 PM Leaders Planning Meeting

 

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Time Session
8:00 AM Breakfast Buffet
9:00 AM Introduction
9:15 AM Project Idea Posters, Part 3
10:00 AM Unconference
10:45 AM Break with refreshments
11:00 AM Project Deliverables and Deadlines
11:30 AM Project Roles & Responsibilities
12:00 PM Lunch Buffet
1:00 PM Discussion about Collaboration
1:30 PM Making a Commitment
2:00 PM Wrap-up
2:30 PM Farewell

Speaker

Natasha JankowskiNatasha A. Jankowski, Ph.D.

Executive Director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)

Associate Professor, Dept. of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership
College of Education University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
51 Gerty Drive, CRC Suite 196, MC-672 Champaign, IL 61820

Dr. Natasha Jankowski is Executive Director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) and associate professor with the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author, along with her NILOA colleagues, of the books Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education (2015), and, Degrees That Matter: Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm (2017). Her main research interests include assessment, organizational evidence use, and evidence-based storytelling. She holds a PhD in higher education from the University of Illinois, an MA in higher education administration from Kent State University, and a BA in philosophy.

  • Montenegro, E., & Jankowski, N. 2015. “Focused on What Matters: Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes at Minority-Serving Institutions.” Urbana, IL: NILOA.
  • Kuh, G., Ikenberry, S., Jankowski, N., Cain, T., Ewell, P., Hutchings, P., & Kinzie, J. 2015. Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Hutchings, P., Jankowski, N., & Ewell, P. 2014. “Catalyzing Assignment Design Activity on Your Own Campus: Lessons from NILOA’s Assignment Library Initiative.” Urbana, IL: NILOA.
  • Jankowski, N., & Marshall, D. 2014. “Roadmap to Enhanced Student Learning: Implementing the DQP and Tuning.” Urbana, IL: NILOA and IEBC.

 

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