Assessment in 3-D

Research Presentation

March 18, 2010

Assessment in 3-D

Six SurfacesStudentInstructorProgramInstitutionIndustryCommunity

NSF Grant Co-PICourse, Curriculum, & Laboratory Improvement

May 2009

“Multi-Departmental Initiative to Promote and Assess High-Quality Writing and High-Level Thinking in an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum”

College of Engineering:Jeff CunninghamRalph Fehr

Office of Assessment:Terri Flateby

Due Diligence

Co-Sponsor -Principal AuthorCenter for 21st Century Teaching Excellence Innovative Learning-Centered Grants Program

January 2009

From the Abstract:

“We propose the design, development, testing and implementation of an enhanced rubric tool, allowing project assessment in an entirely online environment. This improved rubric model not only would provide the statistical information we need to evaluate our learning-centered instruction, but also would encourage student to understand and employ learning outcomes for peer review and facilitate distributed project assessment by multiple composition instructors.”

Design & Specifications

Phase I• Specs: June 2009• Programming:

August 2009Phase II• Programming:

February 2009

Principal AuthorInformation Technology Fee Proposal

March 2010

Adopted by the General Education Council for all newly-approved Gen Ed writing-intensive courses

From the Abstract:

“We seek one-time funding for a three-year term to develop a General Education assessment tool for Writing Intensive Courses. Specifically, this project is jointly sponsored by the University of South Florida General Educational Council, the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment, the Division of Undergraduate Studies, and the Department of English First-Year Composition Program.”

“The only things you need to be a good Computer Systems Technical Writer”

M.B.A. in Business

LL.D in Law

Ph.D. in Computer Science

M.A. in English

M.A. in Psychology

WASHINGTON—Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text.

Dumbfounded citizens from Maine to California gazed helplessly at the frightening chunk of print, unsure of what to do next. Without an illustration, chart, or embedded YouTube video to ease them in, millions were frozen in place, terrified by the sight of one long, unbroken string of English words.

New Media in FYC CourseENC 1102 Composition Online

7 Literacies

• Language• Information• Visual• Political• Social & Cultural• Mathematical & Scientific• Spatial

18 Top Learning Tools

• Blogger• Audacity• Google Docs• SlideShare• Ning• Twitter• Wikispaces

FYC in New Media Course ENC 4260 Advanced Tech Communications

• Podcasts• Videos• Website• Desktop Publishing

Educational Testing Service ‘Factor Analysis’

ETS (1961)• Ideas: Development• Form: Organization• Flavor: Style• Mechanics: Grammar• Wording: Word Choice

FYC (2007)• Development• Focus and Organization• Style and Language• Grammar and Mechanics• Reasoning

Identify Diverse Values

Bob Broad – Dynamic Criteria Mapping (DCM)What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (2003)

Philip Eubanks – Focus GroupsTechnical Communication Quarterly (2003)

Carol Siri Johnson – Delphi MethodJournal of Technical Writing and Communication (2006)

Needs & Values AssessmentFocus Group

Sample Texts

Online Delphi

Identify Values

Integrate

Assess Results

Assessment in 3-D

Six SurfacesStudentInstructorProgramInstitutionIndustryCommunity

Cultural Studies and Modernism

Otto Rank and the Modernist Identity

“D. H. Lawrence and Otto Rank: The Rainbow Intersection”

The Mailer Review "Norman Mailer and

Ernest Hemingway: Influence and Identity“

Research Assistant: Christine Auger

Visual Rhetoric

Carl Barks“Teaching Uncle Scrooge:

Sequential Narrative and Visual Identity in the Carl Barks Comic Book”

©Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Assessment in 3-D

Research Presentation

March 18, 2010