Only staff and student research assistants in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment will read the reports prepared by individual instructors, although instructors are welcome to share their own reports with other colleagues. Below is information about how IE&A will aggregate and share findings.
IE&A will prepare a cumulative report for each requirement that summarizes instructors’ responses. The report will aggregate findings by outcome, not by course. Similarly, instructors’ reflections on the significance of the findings for their own teaching, and their recommendations to the Curriculum Committee, will be reported by outcome rather than by course. The requirement reports will be posted on the college assessment website and will be discussed by the Curriculum Committee. IE&A will also prepare a report summarizing responses to the final item in the General Education Student Learning Report:
- “To what extent was this exercise useful to you in reflecting on your teaching? If it was generally useful, please explain how. If it was not very useful, please suggest changes to the process that might make it so.”
The faculty development recommendations will be shared with the Curriculum Committee, the Faculty Life Committee, the Director of the Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts, the Director of Writing, the Director of Oral Communication, and other faculty development leaders.