ALS 6016

Assessment of Student Learning in Higher Education

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

The assessment of student learning is a critical skill set for faculty at U.S. colleges and universities. Too often, faculty members have little to no exposure to this important topic until they begin their academic teaching careers. This course–a complement to ALS 6015: The Practice of Teaching in Higher Education–addresses topics including: principles and frameworks of assessment, course-based assessment methods and technologies, curricular integration of assessment, and social and political issues in assessment.

When Offered Fall, Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment open to: all graduate teaching assistants and graduate students interested in using research to inform and improve their teaching.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: ALS 6015.

Comments Students participating in CTE collaborative programming (i.e., CIRTL, Teagle, CTE's Graduate Research in Teaching Fellowship Program, and future faculty programs in City and Regional Planning and Biological and Biomedical Sciences) may be required to enroll in this course in order to complete their program requirements.

• Distinguish between (class, course, and program) levels of assessment.
• Articulate learning outcomes at the course level.
• Apply and use assessment techniques and technologies that are appropriate for the learning outcomes of any given course.
• Develop "pedagogical content knowledge" (i.e. match teaching and assessment strategies to specific subject matter).
• Integrate assessment into course curricula.
• Define the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) in context.

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