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Assessment Workshop Schedule

Academic and Administrative & Educational Support (AES) Units

2021-2022 Academic Year

Start of Semester Welcome

Introduction to the semester for department liaisons and coordinators. Participants will receive:

  • A brief overview of Lehman College’s 6-Step process
  • Introduction to Lehman’s assessment infrastructure

Presenters: Victor Brown, Associate Provost

Date: September 23, 2021 Completed


Creating Curriculum Maps (For Academic Units)

Curriculum maps illustrate the interconnectivity between course learning outcomes, student learning outcomes and institutional learning outcomes. The workshop will demonstrate the creation of curriculum map and how they can be used as an effective assessment tool to track student performance. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Create curriculum maps linking course learning outcomes, student learning outcomes and institutional learning outcomes

Presenters: Yvette Rosario, Senior Registrar; Daniel Nicasio, Associate Registrar; and Victor Brown, PhD, Associate Provost for Academic Programs and Educational Effectiveness

Date: October 14, 2021 Completed
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What is Success? How is it Context Dependent? How do we measure it (For Academic and AES Units)

Goals and goal alignment across departments/units, programs, schools/divisions, and the College can drive institutional improvement:

  • Distinguish between goals and outcomes
  • Understand goal alignment
  • Define success from the perspective of one’s unit or program

Presenter: Donald Sutherland, Assessment Manager

Date: November 18, 2021 Completed
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Translating goals and outcomes into improvement through assessment (For Academic and AES Units)

Closing the loop:

  • Write action plans
  • Incorporate action plans into the assessment cycle
  • Understand how action plans can contribute to sustained improvement

Presenter: Donald Sutherland, Assessment Manager

Date: February 17, 2022 Completed
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Accreditation Findings: A Snapshot (For academic and AES units)

Findings from the Middle States Commission's review of Self-Study Reports provide insight into accreditor expectations. At the end of this workshop, participants will:

  • be familiar with the two accreditation standards that most frequently require follow-up
  • be aware of the major issues requiring follow-up for each accreditation standard
  • recognize that assessment is critical to successful re-accreditation

Presenters: Don Sutherland, Assessment Manager

Date: March 17, 2022 Completed
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Assessment Measures and Methods (For academic and AES units)

Assessment is comprised of direct and indirect methods. Good assessment practice incorporates the use of both approaches. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Identify common direct and indirect methods
  • Determine how much assessment evidence is sufficient

Presenter: Donald Sutherland, Assessment Manager

Date: April 15, 2022 Completed
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Assessment Talk” Brown Bag Series

The series focuses on engaging faculty across Lehman in discussions on assessment topics such as “Assessment Resources”, “Issues and Trends in Assessment,” and “Best Practices in Assessment”. RSVP is required because lunch will be provided and seats are limited. At the end of each session, participants will be able to:

  • Become more adept at discussing issues relating to assessment
  • Work collaboratively to address assessment issues

Among the brown bag lunch series will be a faculty roundtable discussion of assessment and a MSCHE briefing on trends in accreditation expectations.
Presenters: TBD

Date: First Monday every other month except during holidays (Oct 4 & Dec 6, 2021; Feb 7 & Apr 4, 2022)

Notes: Depending on progress related to procuring a new Assessment Management System (AMS), training workshops for academic and AES will be scheduled. In general, Assessment “Brown Bag” lunches will take place on the first Monday of each month, except when such dates fall on holidays; Assessment workshops will take place on the third Thursday each month.