Time Sensitive  Today’s educators must develop Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs),  assignments and assessments that reflect an increasingly diverse student body. Integrating cultural competence into our student learning outcome work improves student learning. 

Join the Institute for Evidenced-Based Change (IEBC) and Educational Testing Service (ETS) for a series of workshops designed to increase instructional effectiveness and student success while addressing student learning outcomes, assessment and how this information can be used to improve our work. Faculty and assessment staff working to integrate and assess student learning outcomes at the class, course, program and institutional level will benefit from these workshops..

What you get  Faculty and assessment staff can expect to develop important skills as well as generate working deliverables that can be immediately used in the application of SLOs and assessment processes on their campus. Over two days, a series of four workshops will address issues integral to the development and assessment of student learning outcomes in community colleges with emphasis on cultural competence. Participants will learn how to integrate cultural competence into the development, application and assessment of student learning outcomes. Participants will gain confidence in the development and assessment of SLOs, practice activities in groups and individually, and develop practical applications that apply to their work. 

          $995 includes two days of intensive hands-on workshops, meals, free campus                                  parking, comprehensive materials, and expertise from leaders in the field.                       Discounts are available for college teams of six or more.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6-7, 2015

Workshop Sessions Day 1

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES FUNDAMENTALS AND NEW TECHNIQUES  

Want to integrate the latest techniques to help you develop meaningful and useful SLOs? This session will benefit everyone who wants to learn how SLOs lead to better learning. Faculty will engage in the development of SLOs: how to decide what they should be, how to write them using active verbs, how to develop assignments that map to the SLOs and the basics of assessment of SLOs.Learn also how to easily link your SLOs to the workplace.

INTEGRATING CULTURAL COMPETENCE

Educators –  especially faculty and assessment staff -  need to draft SLOs and develop assignments and assessments that reflect an increasingly diverse student body and help underserved students stay on track to earning degrees and certificates. Participants in this session will learn how to integrate cultural competence into their curriculum, assignments and assessments and will gain insight into cultural competence not being just about race and ethnicity, but about gender, military service, foster youth, poverty, technology access, native language, family status and more.

 Workshop Sessions Day 2

CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND MEASURING STUDENT LEARNING

Faculty, staff and administrators who want to ensure that locally developed measures provide information that is truly useful and that assessment scores accurately reflect claims we want to make about what students know and can do will find this session helpful. Participants will work collaboratively to understand essential components of high quality measures of student learning while integrating cultural competence.Using the principles of Evidence-Centered Design, they will discover how the design process itself supports sound evidentiary reasoning in the context of educational assessment and leads to exams that support reliable scores and valid inferences.

ASSESSMENT 101 

Building assessment plans and processes are important across our institutions because they help us understand what, how, and to what extent students are learning. As we start viewing student learning through a culturally competent lens, assessment becomes a tool we have to understand if all students have an equal opportunity to learn and what we can do to level the playing field This session focuses on assessment as a process, not merely episodic.Participants will come away with an effective process of assessment, including critical features, and keys to an effective implementation in practical settings

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SPEAKERS

 

Javarro Russell, Ph.D. Senior Research and Assessment Advisor, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Global Education division.Russell has guided operational psychometrics for high-stakes and low-stakes testing programs. His focus has been on assisting institutions and organizations with interpreting and using assessment results to address institution effectiveness, regional accreditation standards and state mandates. Russell now works with higher education institutions to help them understand and implement assessment solutions in practice.

 

Ross Markle, Ph.D. Senior Research and Assessment Advisor Educational Testing Service (ETS),Global Education division. Over the past several years, Markle has researched the role of noncognitive skills in student success and student learning with a particular emphasis on traditionally underserved populations. He now works with colleges and universities to help them understand and use assessments and data, particularly in the area of student success.

 

Brad C. Phillips, Ph.D. President and Chief Executive Officer, the Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC). Phillips leads the organization’s focus on improving educational practice and outcomes by helping education stakeholders use data and collaboration to make informed decisions, improve practice and increase student success. Phillips has pioneered the collaborative collection and sharing of data across educational segments; the effective use of meaningful data; and its connection to faculty use and institutional change.

 

Shelly Valdez, Ed.D., Director, Educational Collaboration, the Institute for Evidence-Based Change. Valdez is responsible for planning, organizing and directing initiatives that emphasize cross-discipline, cross-segment and cross-sector collaboration. Her work in multiple states across the U.S. includes collaborative efforts that focus on aligning curricula and developing cooperative approaches to improving instruction and SLO development. 

 

Want to read more?  Check out Brad Phillips' article on Medium, Playing "Cultural Competence" Catch-Up in Higher Education.

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