On April 15, 2016, the Assessment Office of the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) hosted the 2016 Assessment for Curricular Improvement Poster Exhibit at the Sinclair Heritage Room from 12:00pm–3:30pm. The exhibit featured 19 posters prepared by UH Mānoa faculty and staff who presented program assessment for the purpose of improving student learning.
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Poster Awards
Best Poster Design:
- Dan Boulos, Academy for Creative Media Rubrics to Curriculum Map: Assessment Tools Inform ACM Curriculum Plans
- Seunghye Hong, Paula Morelli & Jennifer Kishida, Social Work Articulating Social Work PhD program rubrics into a sustainable assessment
- Shannon L. Johnson, Come Back to Mānoa, Outreach College Developing and Assessing the Come Back to Manoa Program: Why Seniors Leave and How to Help them Graduate
Best Faculty Engagement Strategies:
- Seunghye Hong, Paula Morelli & Jennifer Kishida, Social Work Articulating Social Work PhD program rubrics into a sustainable assessment
Best Use of Results
- Dan Boulos, Academy for Creative Media Rubrics to Curriculum Map: Assessment Tools Inform ACM Curriculum Plans
- Julie Walsh & Jan Rensel, Center for Pacific Islands Studies Yeah, WRITE! New Disciplinary Writing Curriculum As Outcome of Assessment Cycle
Posters
Bingham, J.P. (Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering) – Establishing Signature Assessment For Graduate Programs: The use of the MS. and PhD. proposal as a tool for evaluating Graduate Program performance (Nominated Best Poster Design, Best Faculty Engagement, Best Use of Results)
Boulos, Dan (Academy for Creative Media) – Rubrics to Curriculum Map: Assessment Tools Inform ACM Curriculum Plans (Awarded Best Poster Design, Best Use of Results; Nominated Best Poster Design, Best Faculty Engagement, Best Use of Results)
Fialkowski, M. Kainoa; Esquivel, Monica; and Novotny, Rachel (Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences) – Fostering Grant Writing Skills: A Student Learning Objective of the Intercollege Nutrition PhD Program (Nominated Best Faculty Engagement, Best Use of Results)
Institutional Learning Objectives Committee (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs) – Institutional Learning Objectives (ILOs): Shaping the Mānoa experience, adding meaning, quality and integrity to the Mānoa undergraduate degree (Nominated Best Poster Design, Best Faculty Engagement, and Best Use of Results)
Hong, Seunghye; Morelli, Paula; and Kishida, Jennifer (Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work) – Articulating Social Work PhD program rubrics into a sustainable assessment (Awarded Best Poster Design and Best Faculty Engagement)
Hadwick, Robin (Shidler College of Business) – From Rigorous Data Collection to Meaningful Results: Closing the Loop at Shidler (Nominated Best Poster Design and Best Faculty Engagement)
Jiang, Hong and Szuster, Brian (Geography) – Rethinking the Discipline and Student’s Learning Goal (Nominated Best Poster Design, Best Faculty Engagement, and Best Use of Results)
Johnson, Shannon L. (Come Back to Mānoa, Outreach College) – Developing and Assessing the Come Back to Manoa Program: Why Seniors Leave and How to Help them Graduate (Awarded Best Poster Design; Nominated Best Poster Design & Best Use of Results)
Kraft-Terry, Stephanie D. (Biology) – Collaborative Curricular Improvement Guided by Assessment (Nominated Best Poster Design, Best Faculty Engagement, and Best Use of Results)
Lower, Amy (Communication Sciences and Disorders) – Clinical Remediation Plan Processes in CSD
Martel, Stephen J. (Geology and Geophysics) – A time-effective and fair way to collect assessment data
Miranda, Jessica L. (College of Education, Dean’s Office) – Utilizing Common Goals and Assessments Across Programs for Improvement (Nominated Best Poster Design and Best Use of Results)
Ng-Osorio, Jacqueline (Nursing) – Beginning Journey of an Assessment Coordinator Affecting Change
Sandlin, M’Randa R.; Spafford, Helen; and Hill, Yao (Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences) – An Interactive Approach to Curriculum Mapping (Nominated Best Faculty Engagement)
Takanishi, Stacey M. (Institute for Teacher Education, Elementary) – Curriculum Mapping for Program Assessment and Improvement
Tse, Alice (Nursing) – Evidence-Based Rubric Development for the Nursing PhD Program (Nominated Best Poster Design, Best Faculty Engagement, and Best Use of Results)
Walsh, Julie and Rensel, Jan (Center for Pacific Islands Studies) – Yeah, WRITE! New Disciplinary Writing Curriculum As Outcome of Assessment Cycle (Awarded Best Use of Results; Nominated Best Faculty Engagement and Best Use of Results)
Wiltshire, John C. (Ocean and Resources Engineering, SOEST) – Developing Additionally Improved Rubrics Following a Very Successful ABET Accreditation of the Ocean and Resources Engineering Department (Nominated Best Poster Design)
Winter, Jenifer S.; Kurihara Kramer, Hanae; Buente, Wayne; Amaral Buskirk, Patricia; Kim, Ji Young; and Kawamoto, Kevin (School of Communications) – Communication MA Curriculum Assessment (Nominated Best Faculty Engagement and Best Use of Results)