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ASPIRE - Program and Faculty Effectiveness

The purpose of this section of the ASPIRE webpage is to provide literature in regard to program effectiveness, assessment, and improvement.

Accountability and Assessment

• Accountability and Assessment: Synonymous, Complementary, or Conflicting? By Sill, Kinzie, and Rhodes
• Inviting the Public In: Performance Outcomes and Accountability: By Booth and Davis
• Federal Accreditation Policy: A View from the States: By Scott and Meabon
• The President's Hair Used to Be Black: Recovery, Reaccreditation, Reenergize: By Helmer and Robinson
• Assessing Creative and Critical Thinking Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts: By Grace, Andereck, and Ford
• Engaging Institutions in Improving Student Learning Through a National Study: By Blaich, Wise, and Butler
• Commitments and Resources Distributed to Assessment Activities: Sustaining and Improving Assessment Plans: By McCullough and Jones
• When Accountability Procedures Overtake Educational Commitments: Exploring Assessment Practices: By Rickards and Chamberlain
• Black Holes and Gaseous Processes: Really Big Assessment Mistakes: By Hatfield
• Assessment Oversight: For Nonperfectionists Who Are Seeking Perfection; Baehr and Fager
• Where's the Evidence? Accountability for Program and Institutional Learning Outcomes: By Maxson and Smith
• Do You Have Evaluation Dysfunction? Humor as an Assessment Motivator: By Penne, Leake, Kristovich, and Rouseff-Baker
• Assessment by Stealth and Serendipity: By Candy Barnack, Lisa Larson, and Kent Richards
• Finding Your Way in the Dark: Assessment for Tribal Colleges and Other Small Institutions: By Anderson and Cubbins
• Becoming Learner Centered: Improving Academic Quality through Outcomes Assessment and Active Learning Strategies: By Hassinger and Moore
• Big Ideas for Small Programs: A Tailored Assessment Guide: By Handler and Graham
• Time, Money, and Autonomy: An Approach to Supporting Departmental Assessment: By Schneider and Wohlfeil
• Layers of Expectation: Negotiating Programmatic Accreditation and University-Wide Assessment of Student Learning: By Baker-Sperry and Dallinger
• Against All Odds: Rubric Development and Multiple Measures of Learning: By Boardman, Cochran, and Slater

Program Evaluation and Improvement

• Program Reviews: Building Common Ground While Ensuring Student Success: By Powell, Stephens, and Harbert
• Improving on Improvement: Revising Program Evaluation Processes and Measurements: By Carter, Kraus, and Mikula
• Linking Evaluation of Assessment Plans with Program Review: A Value-Added Practice: By Wilson, Murphy, Presley
• A Quality Improvement Initiative for Graduate Programs: By Augustine, Costa, and Ranes
• Upgrading Your Curriculum: A Model for Success: By Mayzel and Brletich
• Development and Implementation of a Comprehensive Career and Technical Education Program Review Process: By Fogg
• A MEASURE of Success: Adapting Program Review to Facilitate Continuous Quality Improvement: By Stewart, Long, Randall, and Waters
• Program Review as a Quality Improvement Process: By Grelle
• Academic Program Assessment: Let's Pretend and Just Imagine: By Roweton, House, and Krepel
• Continuing Evolution of an Institution-wide Process for Evaluating Department-Based Assessment: By Frazier and Dennis Holt

Mission and Other Linkages to Assessment

• Making Linkages between Course, Program, and Institutional Outcomes: By Lind and Larimore
• It's the Mission, Stupid! Using Your Mission Statement to Find Common Ground for Curriculum Revision: By Jacobsen and Burney
• Achieving Strategic Alignment: Integrated Planning, Assessment, and Accountability: By Weber

Student Learning Focus

• Meet the Students: Finding Common Ground between Student and Institutional Goals: By Taylor
• Meeting the Students Where They Are: Revitalization of an Institution: By Johnny D. Jones and Fitz Hill

Strategic Planning

• Measuring the Impact of Strategic Direction and Planning: By Richardson, Riordan, Oosterhoff, and Webster
• Targeted Excellence: Accountable Investments Strategic Interdisciplinary Collaborations: By Cochran, Dyer, and Nellis
• Seven-Minute Strategic Planning in a Flat Organization; By Krotseng, Kubisiak, and Skogen
• Using Higher Learning Commission Criteria for Institutional Strategic Planning/ Two Years Later: By Smith
• Strategic/College Plan:Accreditation and the Self-Study Are the Common Elements: By Flores and Miles
• Strategic Planning for Accreditation:A First University-wide Strategic Plan for a Newly Consolidated University: By Heckler, Nairn, and Potter
• Scenario Planning/Springboard for Transforming University Planning: By Larson, Quistgaard, Fredrickson, Dunn, and Maki

Transfer of Credit

• Transfer of Credit and Articulation: Working in a Common Community of Interest: By Baer, Ernst, and Herrmann

Innovation and Change

• The Organization That Changes Itself: Innovation for a New Era: Baer, Duin, and Ramaley
• Planning with the Five Criteria Equals Institutional Change: By Johnston and Stirling
• Reorganizing Colleges and Departments to Support Academic Priorities and Change: By Fredrickson, Dunn, Erickson, Griggs, Nielsen, and Rogers
• Web-Interactive Program Review That Develops Organizational Learning and Accelerated Improvement: By Bender
• Changing Assessment Culture: The Journey from Challenges to Champions; By Van Hoose and Wilbur
• Developing a Culture for Continuous Assessment of Student Learning: By Dreyer and Claborn
• Student Learning Outcomes Assessment: Creating Change in Pedagogy: By Kapelke, Sullivan, and Minsky
• Developing Shared Criteria for Peer Review of Program Assessment Plans: By Penn, Jonson, and Johnson
• Finding Common Ground: The Electronic Portfolio: By Felsheim and Coffey
• From Isolated to Collaborative: Assessing Student Learning Using Technology and Rubrics: By Gort, Kieke, Moroz, and Luebke
• Going Electronic: Parameters for Recording and Hyperlinking Assessment Results: By Borland
• Organizing the Campus Environment to Foster Student Self-Authorship; By Braskamp
• Technology-Enhanced Strategies That Assess Significant Student Learning: By Silverman and Busch

Distance Learning

• A Model for Direct Online Assessment of Graduate Learning; By Watson, Player, and Roubik
• Program Development and Assessment: ACCELerated Evening College and Hybrid Learning: By Calhoon and Hakes
• Distance Education: Bridging the Equity Gap: ByLawrence and Martin
• Student Learning Success: A Comparative Examination in Ground versus Online Classrooms: By Hartman, Goldsmith, and Morgan
• Distance Learning Student Authentication: Verifying the Identity of Online Students; By Bailie and Jortberg
• Using Student Feedback to Guide Learning in Online Environments: By Varagoor and Berardinelli
• Developing Student Outcomes Assessment of Online Learning: One Consortium's Journey, By Manes and Westerhaus
• Enriching the Learning Experience for e-Learners:Making Assessment Real, By Wilkinson, Crews, and Kinley

First Year Students

• General Education Outcomes from the First-Year Liberal Arts Seminar; By Hegler and Jarvis
• Supporting First-Year Students' Transition to College: A Multicampus Perspective: By Woosley, Bear, and Brown

Faculty Development in Regard to Assessment

• A Faculty Development Strategy for Student Assessment Practices within Teaching: By Leister and Kailhofer
• Turning Assessment into Action:Connecting Assessment,Curriculum, and Faculty Development: By style='font-style:normal'>Groves and Miller
• Faculty Development: Opportunities for Full-Time and Adjunct Faculty Members: By Krueger and Callery
• Incorporating îGetting Resultsì into a Statewide Basic Training Course for Adjunct Faculty: By Lepper and Silliman
• Creation of an Educational Community: A Groundbreaking Faculty Development Model: By Hardiman and Attiah

Franciscan University Presents at the HLC 2009 Annual Meeting on Faculty Evaluation.

• 2009 Appraisal Packet
• Sample Goals
• Sample IDEA Sheet
• Sample SoTL Proposal
• Benchmarks for Faculty Productivity
• Department Annual Report
  
• Integrating Faculty Appraisal, Development, Benchmarks (Scholarship and Service) & University Planning
• FUS Appraisal HLC 2009 [Power Point Presentation]

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