Assessment - A Partner for Curriculum Development - Useful Online Tools

Outline

Where did it begin?
1998/99 Assessment by LEAD

NSF/EHR
National Science Foundation/Education and Human Resources Directorate

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/
2002/nsf02057/start.htm

Evaluation & Assessment using
Outside Wisdom (Foertsch/Alexander)

Grand Challenges for HPC
Stewart & Zaslavsky, SC98,
HPC=High Performance Computing

Kris’ Faculty Background
(Kris Stewart, Director, San Diego State University, California State University System)

UCES Paradigm
UCES = Undergrad Computational Science & Engineering
thanks Tom Marchioro and the “crew”, 1994

Mission of EOT-PACI

1998/99 Assessment by LEAD

Building the Community of Faculty

Interviews on SDSU Campus
LEAD applying info from email surveys (Spr 99)

Assessment not just requirement

California Education Infrastructure

California Education Infrastructure
(testbed for change)

Involving University Faculty
Infrastructure for Change

Undergraduate Faculty: A Tough Target Group

Using computers in the classroom versus number of years as a faculty member (1997 Faculty Survey by SSRL/Doug Coe funded by Academic Affairs)

Students Using  Computers in the Classroom (1997 Faculty Survey)

Strategies for Building Faculty Community

Faculty Fellows during 1998-2004

Faculty Fellows Fall 01 Synergy
among themselves and with their chairs and deans

Lessons Learned from ECCSE

More Outside Wisdom – JSB
John Seely Brown – 17Jan05 @ SDSU

JSB
www.johnseelybrown.com

CS440 Learning Outcomes

CS440 – Develop your own answers to:

Gift of Fire by Sara Baase

Apply JSB Insights to CS 440

Apply JSB Insights to CS 440
early in the semester, just the start

Evaluation and Assessment of Classroom Practice
Where to start?

The Tools

Automated Survey Creation
Login/password protection of your data

CS 575 – Fall 2003 Pre Survey

ASCP Survey Manager (new)

Automated Survey Creation Process

Survey Manager Interface
Gateway to your Data

ASCP – Select Your Data

ASCP gather dry #’s
or use the Sociology WorkBench

Logon to SWB – Password Protect Data

Sociology WorkBench
to Select & Analyze Survey Data

SWB Convenient Tool to Learn from Student Survey Data

SWB generated Frequency Tables
for Initial Investigation of Data

SWB as Analysis Tool
View Student Comments (text)

SWB as Analysis Tool
Isolate on Specific Survey Response

SWB builds Cross Tabs

SWB as Analysis Tool
Explain the Response on Learning with “doing more”

SWB as Analysis Tool
Explain learning with “active participation”

SDSU Faculty Workshop
on ASCP – June 2003

What’s Next?

References – SIAM CSE05

ECCSE support as part of the NPACI