Redden presents at national conference
CHADRON – Assistant Professor of Business Dr. Caitlin Redden made a presentation at the Association for General and Liberal Studies Oct. 2-4, in Louisville, Kentucky.
The title of Redden’s presentation was Re-fermenting Assessment: Using a Sour Mash Approach to Develop a Pillar-Based Assessment Model. Her session explained how CSC distilled the essence of its general education program to create a manageable assessment framework.
In her abstract, Redden wrote that to develop a sustainable and effective general education assessment process, a group of CSC faculty, administrators, and staff refined the most important elements of the Essential Studies Program.
Her presentation discussed the transition from a course-level assessment plan with 12 student learning outcomes to a pillar-based model with four overarching outcomes.
The sour mash approach involves a process where a portion of a previous batch is used to start a new one. To do this, the group Redden served on asked how they could create a sustainable, purposeful, and meaningful assessment model using the existing foundation. Additionally, they defined the hallmarks of a Chadron State graduate. The process helped them identify four main themes that define a CSC graduate without starting from scratch.
“By creating four pillars for the Essential Studies Program, we have developed an actionable plan to recertify courses within the Essential Studies Program, create rubrics for each pillar, integrate these rubrics into Canvas using the SpeedGrader tool, and begin collecting data on student work,” Redden wrote in her abstract.
In the presentation, she discussed trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the process with practical ideas for implementing a pillar-based assessment model in general education. She also included future goals for assessing student learning.
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