
Measuring Success in the Social
Sciences
Below are a few key web resources that you can refer to in order to explore the topic of Assessment in greater depth.
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Valencia's
Learning Evidence Team This is the group that has designed the college's new Assessment Plan, and is moving the "THINK" project forward. |
Valencia Community
College Faculty Development
Valencia's main page for teaching and learning information. A wealth of good stuff awaits. |
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Mesa Community College Here is the General Education assessment work at Mesa Community College. Gail Mee is in charge of the effort. |
Valencia's Learning-Centered Reference Guide This is the web version of the "little red book" of concepts that support the Learning-Centered philosophy. |
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Johnson County Community
College The work done by Jeff Seybert is among the best you will ever find. The web link seems rather tricky, but is worthy of investigation. |
Philip Bishop's Assessment Links Dr. Bishop makes it easy for you to click to some great websites across the country. |
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Mt. Royal College This community college in Calgary has done great work on outcomes and assessment. This is a link to researcher Patti Derbyshire's presentation at Valencia. |
Philip
Bishop's Learning Resources Pages This is Philip's overview page that covers much more than assessment techniques. |
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Dr. Peggy Maki Peggy is an international consultant on assessment of student learning in college. Here is a link to her workshop at Valencia. This is excellent material. |
Think-Value-Communicate-Act Integration Efforts This comes from our past years work on bringing courses and assignments into line with TVCA. |
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Destination 2004
This is our Summer Program for faculty. This page highlights work done by teams in the Outcomes/Assessment Track. |
Destination Data Base
of Teaching Activities This is our collection of learning activities designed by faculty over the years. It can be searched in a number of ways, by type of activity, by course, by TVCA, and so forth. No passwords! |
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Harvard's Bok Center Here's the homepage for Harvard's Teaching/Learning Center. |
Muddiest Point -
Origins in Statistics Course The Harvard math professor who invented this CAT tells all. Great info for math and science teachers. |
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Good Lectures
Improved Tips on lecturing well, from Harvard. |
Student
Evaluations, Early and Often Some downloadable forms that you may wish to use. |
Feel free to contact me at the
address below if you have any further questions. Thanks for inviting me to
your Professional
Enhancement Day.
Patrick Nellis, Faculty Development Coordinator, pnellis@valenciacc.edu