2025 Assessment Institute and May Day event
May 14, 2025 9:00 AM | The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Office of Academic Program Assessment (OAPA), and the Common Curriculum Committee (CCC) are collaborating to offer a full-day of professional development and collaboration that combines their annual events. Spend Wednesday, May 14, 2025, with colleagues as you learn from peers, engage in discussions, and keep the momentum going for many of our large-scale teaching, learning, and assessment initiatives. The jam-packed day will provide something for everyone. Are you looking to define learning objectives, measure student mastery of learning objectives within your academic program or the Common Curriculum? Are you looking to access and use undergraduate and graduate institutional data? Do you want to create efficiencies in data collection from courses and programs, maximize the use of Blackboard for assessment data collection? If you said "yes" to any of these, this is the event for you! These and many more topics related to teaching, learning, and assessment will be presented at this event. In addition to numerous professional development offerings, this event will provide opportunities for collaboration and team time. Through a variety of sessions and workshops, participants will: *learn and practice course (re)design approaches, including learning objectives, alignments, assessment of learning, and assessment measures *develop a clear plan for next steps and identify resources that will support their curricular and assessment work *consider current pedagogical challenges as they learn from colleagues, such as engaging students, neurodiversity, and UDL *draft the pieces of a triennial assessment report *learn about data collection with Bb EAC or data resources from Institutional Research *draft unit goals aligned with NACE Competencies and UConn's strategic plan *engage with and learn from colleagues as they explore common areas of interest, including, but not limited to, dialogue, IDML, assessment, Common Curriculum themes Date/Time: May 14 from 9am-5pm Location: Storrs campus Registration link: https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=3421 (https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffins.uconn.edu%2Fsecure_inst%2Fworkshops%2Fworkshop_view.php%3Fser%3D3421&data=05%7C02%7Cstacey.valliere%40uconn.edu%7C3d6f1e371fad409a60d408dd576092ab%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638762794473669688%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jxTyUS3v18oFLTMYJrUa6Xjxq6enc9e1ZK%2FWddg26DY%3D&reserved=0)
