InfoTech as Gateway to
Undergrad Computational Science
building assessment into the curriculum
What is Information Technology?
What is Computational Science?
Who is Doing Computational Science?
NPACI-NCSA/Alliance Partnerships are NSF Programs
California Networking the State – all 3 college tiers and schools
Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering
Evaluation and Assessment of Classroom Practice
UCES Paradigm
(thanks Tom Marchioro and the DOE “crew”, 1994)
Grand Challenges for HPC
(Stewart & Zaslavsky, SC98)
Assessment not just requirement
Student Assessment of
Learning Gains
(SALG)
Sociology Workbench (SWB)
http://www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/swb/
SWB Convenient Tool to Learn from Student Survey Data
SWB as Analysis Tool
View Student Comments (text)
SWB as Analysis Tool
Isolate
on Specific Survey Response
What do I want to Explain with SWB?
SWB as Analysis Tool
Explain
learning with “active participation”
Evaluation and Assessment of Classroom Practice
SDSC Refines Focus 5 Strategic Program Areas
Updates for CS 575
Supercomputing
Spring 2003