1. We VALUE HIPs
Utilizing VALUE Rubrics and HIP QA Tools in Course Revitalization
Presented by Melynda Conner, TBR OSS HIP Specialist 2019

2. Workshop Prep What is your favorite class to teach?
What is your favorite assignment in that class?
Outline your favorite assignment.
What HIP is (or could be) incorporated into this class or assignment?
What disciplines besides your own are (or could be) incorporated into this class or assignment?

3. Agenda Preparation Creation Evaluation Workshop Prep
Welcome and Introduction
Review HIPs
Introduce VALUE Rubrics
Introduce Sample Rubrics
Creation
Modify Assignment
Create Rubric
Evaluation
HIP QA Tools
Evaluate Session
Personal Reflection

4. High Impact Practices (HIPs)
These approaches to teaching and learning involve an investment of time and energy, but result in unusually positive effects on student engagement in educationally positive behavior for all types of students. TBR has taxonomies for nine HIPs:
Certifications
Reflection
First Year Seminar
Technology-Enhanced Learning
Honors Education
Undergraduate Research
Learning Communities
Work-based Learning
Service Learning

5. HIP Quality Dimensions
When these elements are incorporated within courses, student success increases (Kuh & O’Donnell, 2013).
High Expectations
Discussion
Integrative Learning
Presentation
Student Research
Diversity
Reflection
Feedback

6. AAC&U VALUE Rubrics
VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education)
provide a basic, progressive framework of student performance expectations determined through national collaboration
examine whether and how well students are meeting graduation level achievement in learning outcomes that both employers and faculty consider essential

7. AAC&U VALUE Rubrics Civic Engagement Lifelong Learning
Creative Thinking
Oral Communication
Critical Thinking
Problem Solving
Ethical Reasoning
Quantitative Literacy
Global Learning
Reading
Information Literacy
Teamwork
Integrative Learning
Writing
Intercultural Knowledge
Written Communication

8. AAC&U VALUE Rubrics
A guide for constructing expectation guidelines within departments, degree programs, and teaching teams to develop scalable, consistent criteria
Designed to function across disciplines
Designed to help institutions and educators embed HIPs across the curriculum

9. Your Turn: Modifying Assignments
Go to your Workshop Prep notes.
Keeping in mind your assignment outline, the noted HIP, and any cross-discipline connections…
Review all associated VALUE Rubrics.
Determine which most informs your assignment.
Evaluate the rubric for elements you might use to enhance your assignment instructions.

10. Rubrics Provide a road map to student success
identify the goal of a particular lesson
communicate clear expectations to students in regard to their work
Allow for faster and more accurate grading
Allow students to check their work against the rubric
Set up expectations for equity in grading

11. Types of Rubrics Analytic Holistic Single-point
Descriptive progressive scale with points
Holistic
Summative scale for letter grades
Single-point
Incorporates expectations with feedback

12. Creating Rubrics Determine what you want students to learn
Align assignment with course learning outcomes
Be intentional with assignment prompts
Use assignment prompts to guide rubric creation

13. Your Turn: Creating Rubrics
Using the VALUE Rubrics and the instructions for your favorite assignment, create a rough draft of a single-point rubric.

14. Assessing Your Rubrics
Review the rubric with students to identify the outcomes the assignment is designed to address.
Complete the assignment yourself & have students use the rubric to assess your work.
Revise the rubric for future use based on student performance and feedback.

15. Your Turn: Evaluating
Using the Oral Communication VALUE Rubric at the back of your packet, take a moment to evaluate today’s presentation.

16. HIP Quality Assurance Tools
HIP Implementation Tool
Guides HIP course development
HIP Exit Tool
Self assessment of HIP course success
Quality assurance evaluation
Starting point for your own assessment

17. Attaining Equity in Learning+
HIP QA Tools
Rubrics
Help accommodate differences in student learning.
Mitigate inequities in taken-for-granted practices and policies.
Provide clarity in the language, goals, and measures used.

18. Your Turn: Reflection
To make learning in my class better for my students, I really want to work on …

19. Thoughtful, Equity-Minded Assessment
When we, as educators, improve our own practices and policies by evaluating, communicating about, and addressing any unconscious or unintended inequities in own own daily work, we positively impact student outcomes.

20. References AAC&U VALUE Rubric Webinar AAC&U VALUE Rubric Webpages
CUE Equity Article
TBR High Impact Practice Website