1. CHERRY DANIELSON ELLEN IVERSON ASSESSING STUDENT LEARNING AS A RESULT OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS December 12, 2013

2. CHOOSING LEARNING OUTCOMES What things do you want your students to gain from their civic engagement experience? Knowledge Skills Attitudes Behaviors Do these outcomes make sense considering the time you have available? To what degree do you think you can affect them?

3. HELPFUL OUTCOME LANGUAGE Psychomotor Skill Domain Build – Compose – Construct – Design - Originate Adapt – Revise – Modify Detect – Differentiate – Distinguish Calibrate – Demonstrate - Master Cognitive Domain Create Evaluate Analyze Apply Comprehend Remember Affective Domain Internalize Organize Value Respond Receive Sources: Bloom (1956), Dave (1970), Wick and Phillips (2008)

4. INFLUENCING LEARNING OUTCOMES OUTCOME Effect of activities and teaching methods

5. QUALITIES OF ASSESSMENT Linked to a particular outcome Systematic Criterion referenced – (Rubric) Covers at least some of the dimensions of the learning outcome Can be both formative and summative Can be either a measurement or an indicator (proxy) Graded and not graded Group or individual Resources: 51 CATs – Angelo and Cross SERC - Website

6. ASSESSMENT EXAMPLES Project products Student reflections Writing projects – Reports - Essays Survey – including gains Exam – test abilities or knowledge Presentations Posters Observation Community partner evaluations Note: Many of these would need a rubric created to evaluate learning

7. USE BOTH FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS Formative: Identify places in the term where you can support student learning with formative assessments. Find out how they are coming along with their civic engagement project Are students able to connect the goals of the project with the actual engagement activity? Provide feedback, practice, Use reflection opportunities to understand how students are responding or processing their experience Summative: Identify how and when will students demonstrate the degree to which they have achieved the outcomes Provide opportunity for students to realize and express their learning from the project. How you will know that they have accomplished what you intend? How will you recognize the unexpected outcomes from the experience?

8. Carleton HHMI – Evaluation Framework