Beginning Journey of an Assessment Coordinator Affecting Change

Poster Exhibit, Professional Schools
The College of Education (COE) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was facing a challenge of developing a shared goal for program improvement across the college’s teacher preparation programs. This poster summarizes the COE’s process of improvement, provides examples of professional dispositions comparison, critical action items, and identifies main insights gained through the assessment process. Within the framework of the principles of improvement science, we implemented a process of disciplined inquiry to examine the variances and outcomes between COE teacher preparation programs. We determined that the COE needed to better align candidate intake, assessment, and graduation processes across our five teacher education programs. We have now taken strategic steps to create a set of common assessments for use across all of our teacher licensure programs.

The Department of Nursing is conducting a needs assessment to answer the following questions: 1) How are assessments used in the four degree programs offered to assess student completion of programmatic milestones/outcomes, 2) How are assessments used in the four degree programs used to effect programmatic changes, 3) How are assessments (e.g., e-café and internal student course evaluations) used to by faculty to determine student completion of student learning outcomes, and 4) How are assessments (e.g., e-café and internal student course evaluations) used to by faculty (instructors/course coordinators) to effect course change? This poster presents the process of internal stakeholder analysis — collecting and analyzing interviews with degree program chairs, course coordinators, undergraduate and graduate committee chairs, graduate chair, department chair and dean. Major themes that emerged from the interviews will be explored, as well as how stakeholders were facilitated to interpret the interview results and use the results for assessment and program improvement discussion, thus effecting change in the program. by Jacqueline Ng-Osorio

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Recommended Citation:
Ng-Osorio, J. (2016, April). Beginning Journey of an Assessment Coordinator Affecting Change. Poster session presented at the Assessment for Curricular Improvement Poster Exhibit at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI.