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Northern Arizona University is committed to ensuring the effectiveness
of instruction and the quality of student learning in all of its
courses and degree programs. Substantial, and increasing, numbers
of individual courses are offered to students via online instruction
and at a host of statewide sites, and a growing number of degrees
may be completed primarily or entirely online. One priority of the
Office of Academic Assessment (OAA) is to work with students, faculty,
departments, and administrators in order to develop and implement
rigorous practices for the assessment of student learning, regardless
of where or via what medium students are being taught. Assessment
findings are used to better understand the extent to which students
are achieving desired learning outcomes, and these understandings
are used in turn to enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning
within electronic and distributed settings.
The OAA targets activities at several levels, in order to ensure
the assessment and consequent improvement of student learning in
electronic and distributed instruction.
Students:
- Develop instruments and procedures for assessing entering students’
technological skills and needs
- Assist student groups in disseminating information about the
value and purpose of assessment in electronic and distributed
instructional settings
Faculty and instructors:
- Investigate assessment uses in electronic and distributed courses
- Develop models and examples of effective assessment in courses
- Disseminate guidelines for effective assessment in courses
- Consult with faculty to meet particular challenges of online
assessment
- Advise on assessment plans for E-Learning grant projects
Departments and other academic units:
- Develop plans for assessing student learning outcomes in online
or distributed degrees
- Assist departments in analyzing, interpreting, and using assessment
data to bring about needed changes in curriculum and instruction
- Advise on the design and use of online course evaluation procedures
as they relate to assessment of student learning
- Analyze, interpret, and report on assessment data from electronic
settings
For further information, please contact our office (d-oaa@jan.ucc.nau.edu
or (928) 523-8679).
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