Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Forum
Dear Colleagues,
On November 16, 2016, the Office of the Provost, in collaboration with the Assessment/Accreditation Council and Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching, will host the fourth annual Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Forum at Norris University Center. This year’s forum theme is “Examining the Evidence of Student Learning.” This university-wide event is designed to provide faculty and other University community members with the opportunity to share and highlight teaching and learning assessment innovations, strategies, practices, and outcomes, and to promote dialogue about the assessment of student learning. Over the last three years, over 150 people have participated annually in the forum.
We are seeking faculty contributions from a range of schools, disciplines, programs, and course types to share their assessment of learning initiatives. Examples of topics might include, among others, assessing learning without exams, simple but meaningful assessments, assessing learning beyond the classroom, assessing a curriculum, designing and implementing an assessment strategy, and research studies on student learning at Northwestern. Presenters may share their initiative in an interactive session or as a poster. Proposals for roundtables may also be submitted on topics of general interest related to the assessment of student learning.
We will be hosting two information sessions about the forum: Session I on May 18th from 10:00 am-11:30 am in the 101B Wildcat Room in Norris University Center (Evanston), and Session II on May 26th from 1:30pm-3:00pm in the 202A Northwestern Room in Norris University Center (Evanston). These sessions will help participants explore ideas related to the assessment of student learning, reflect on the assessments they are already doing, and consider whether those assessments may be innovative and applicable to others (assessments typical in one discipline might be groundbreaking in another).
For more details about the Forum and to submit a proposal, please visit the 2016 Learning, Teaching and Assessment Forum webpage. Submissions must be received by September 8, 2016 and applicants will be notified by mid-September.
Please mark your calendars for November 16, 2016. We look forward to seeing you at the Forum. If you have any questions, please contact Susanna Calkins, Director of Faculty Programs at the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching (s-calkins@northwestern.edu). Thank you.
Sincerely,
Dan Linzer, Provost