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Rosemary W. Skeele Vivienne B. Carr Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ 07079 USA

Assessment with a Difference: Waypoint Empowers Students, Faculty and Administrators in all Models of Learning. Rosemary W. Skeele Vivienne B. Carr Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ 07079 USA. 13 th Annual Sloan-C Conference on Online Learning November 7 - 9 2007.

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Rosemary W. Skeele Vivienne B. Carr Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ 07079 USA

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  1. Assessment with a Difference: Waypoint Empowers Students, Faculty and Administrators in all Models of Learning Rosemary W. Skeele Vivienne B. Carr Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ 07079 USA 13th Annual Sloan-C Conference on Online Learning November 7 - 9 2007

  2. Background - Seton Hall University • Private, Catholic, mid-sized, northeastern university • Technology accepted & promoted – mobile, wireless computing provided

  3. Online Courses • College of Education and Human Services • Seton World Wide • Graduate programs in Instructional Design & Technology • School Library Media Specialist Certification Program • Future – Teacher Certification

  4. Assessment: Step in a Larger Process for Accreditation (NCATE and Middle States) Step 1: Determine what a portfolio means to your program. Define goal Step 2: Identify what we want students to learn. Set objectives • Align with mission • Look at institutional, state, and national standards • Research other programs Step 3: Describe content and tasks. Develop curriculum & activities • Map Curriculum • Learn and integrate new teaching practices • Revise syllabi Step 4: Determine whether we met our objectives. Assess & revise learning • Develop evaluation instruments; Create rubrics • Analyze results • Revise curriculum based on results

  5. Assessment: University Core Curriculum

  6. Performance Standards - Rubrics A rubric is a set of categories which define and describe the important components of the work being completed, critiqued, or assessed. Each category contains a gradation of levels of completion or competence with a score assigned to each level and a clear description of what criteria need to be met to attain the score at each level.

  7. Rubric: Tool for Assessment

  8. Why Rubrics? • Teachers and students share a common understanding of the project goals and criteria • Formative Evaluation • Self-evaluation • Peer Evaluation • Summative Evaluation • Establish Inter-rater Reliability for Multiple Sections of a Course • Improve Student Performance

  9. Problem: How to Simplify Gathering and Analyzing Data Our Solution

  10. Waypoint

  11. Rubric Library “T” indicates rubric shared by a team.

  12. Edit View

  13. Editing an Element

  14. Evaluate Page

  15. Feedback • Can be: • Mailed • Printed

  16. Evaluate Mode

  17. Adding Comments

  18. Editing Text

  19. Edited Element

  20. Checklist Element

  21. Edited Checklist Element

  22. Overall Comments & Grade Fields

  23. Manage Screen

  24. View Data

  25. Outcomes Analysis Software

  26. Pointing WP Outcomes at Data Set

  27. Overview of Assignments

  28. Lesson Plan Results

  29. Filter Builder with Rubric Data

  30. Competency Table

  31. Data Histograms

  32. Comparison of 2 Different Data Sets

  33. Filter Builder with Attribute Data

  34. The use of Waypoint is not without problems. Some of these include: • The terminology used by Waypoint is not typical of standard rubrics: • Rubrics are called assignments • Criteria are elements • Descriptors of performance are referred to as observations. • The instruction guide is difficult to understand, making training sessions on system use a necessity. • A Waypoint administrator must be designated to make certain changes and corrections and to create data downloads, which can be imported into spreadsheet and database programs to create charts, graphics and reports.

  35. Why we are using Waypoint? • It is linked to Blackboard: • creating a user-friendly Web-based portal for Blackboard users. • leveraging the University’s technology investment. • Evaluations are Web-based • Waypoint style rubrics familiar to most US educators, Waypoint is linked to Rubistar – familiar, easy to use rubric generator. • Entering data in Waypoint is easy, Grading time is shortened: descriptions of common errors can be built into checklists. • Completed rubrics can be shared by email directly to the student. • Rubrics shared through Blackboard for faculty or peer review. • Data can easily be aggregated from multiple sections of one course taught by different instructors. • Evaluation data for students and programs is easy to generate: • evaluation tools (statistics generators) built into the product; • data can be imported into common graphing and report tools (Excel and Access).

  36. Questions?

  37. Rosemary W. Skeele skeelero@shu.eduVivienne B. Carrcarrvivi@hu.edu

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