The Office of Assessment provides customizable workshops to help faculty and academic teams strengthen effective, sustainable assessment practices tailored to their specific needs and disciplines. In addition to these sessions, staff offer ongoing consultation to support all stages of assessment work—from developing learning outcomes and refining methods to interpreting results and implementing improvements. Faculty and teams are encouraged to explore these offerings and connect with the office to schedule workshops or consultations aligned with their goals.
In this workshop, we introduce a straightforward approach to creating an assessment plan for degree and certificate programs offered in face-to-face and/or fully online. This session focuses on three key areas:
This workshop is intended for faculty members and Assessment Liaisons (Faculty) engaged in undergraduate-level program assessment process. Whether you're new to assessment or aiming to enhance your current practices, this session offers valuable insights and practical tools.
Additionally, this workshop is meant for Assessment Liaisons (faculty):
a) In academic programs that have not yet developed or submitted undergraduate program assessment reports.
b) In academic programs whose most recent undergraduate program level assessment reports were color-coded “yellow” and/or “red” in the “Student Learning Outcomes” (SLOs) and/or the “Assessment Methods” sections and are looking to review their SLOs and/or appropriate strategies for measuring student learning.
Since the PSLOs for most programs are available on the Office of Academic Assessment website under Program Learning Outcomes Assessment, please review your program’s PSLOs online in advance of the session.
This workshop is designed to support enhancement of assessment of student learning for graduate degree and certificate programs. The session centers on practical strategies for developing, implementing and continuously reviewing assessment process for their respective programs.
The interactive activities planned for this workshop will help participants to:
Who Should Attend: This workshop is ideal for faculty members and Assessment Liaisons (Faculty) involved in graduate-level education and program assessment. Whether you are new to assessment or looking to refine your existing practices, this workshop provides valuable insights and practical tools.
Additionally, this workshop is intended for Assessment Liaisons (faculty):
a) In academic programs that have not yet developed or submitted graduate program assessment reports.
b) In academic programs whose most recent graduate program level assessment reports were color-coded “yellow” and/or “red” in the “Student Learning Outcomes” (SLOs) and/or the “Assessment Methods” sections and are looking to review their SLOs and/or appropriate strategies for measuring student learning.
Since the PSLOs for most programs are available on the Office of Academic Assessment website under Program Learning Outcomes Assessment, please review your program’s PSLOs online in advance of the session.
This interactive workshop guides participants through the process of effectively documenting student performance and leveraging that data to inform action plans for continuous improvement.
The session covers the following key topics:
By the end of the workshop, participants should be equipped with the knowledge and tools to document student performance effectively, analyze assessment data, and create action plans that support continuous improvement in their degree or certificate programs.
This workshop is ideal for Assessment Liaisons (faculty) from departments or schools whose most recent program level assessment reports were color-coded “yellow” and/or “red” in the “Assessment Results” and/or the “Use of Assessment Results” sections and are looking to enhance their approach to student performance documentation and use data for meaningful educational improvements.
This workshop is designed to help Assessment Liaisons (faculty) ensure the comparability of student learning outcomes (SLOs) for degree and certificate programs offered both face-to-face and 100% online modalities, as well as those offered at both Norman Campus and Tulsa Campus. Participants explore best practices for aligning program-level SLOs and maintaining effectiveness of program curriculum for diverse educational settings.
The session covers the following key topics:
By the end of the workshop, participants develop a deeper understanding of how to ensure comparability of program-level SLOs across different delivery modes and locations, while maintaining high academic standards. The session provides practical tools and strategies that can be immediately applied to improve assessment practices and ensure that all students meet the same learning outcomes.
This hands-on workshop guides Assessment Liaisons (faculty and staff) through the process of efficiently uploading and managing key components of OU’s program assessment process within the Platform, the university’s official repository for assessment reports. Participants learn how to enter program information (e.g., mission statements) and organize content related to Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs), assessment methods, student performance results, and the use of results for continuous improvement. The workshop also ensures that all assessment activities and supporting documents (e.g., rubrics, surveys) are properly documented and effectively tracked in the system.
Target Audience: Assessment Liaisons (faculty and staff) responsible for submitting annual assessment reports for degree and/or certificate programs. Those who do not yet have access should email Dr. Felix Wao at wao@ou.edu to request it.
This workshop is designed to help prepare and implement assessments for large classes (face-to-face, hybrid or fully online). Although definitions of what constitutes a large class can vary, this workshop will help anyone who needs to develop assessments for a class of 50 or more students, or more simply put, one that is larger than they are accustomed to teaching. We will cover challenges of assessing large groups of students and appropriate assessment strategies to address those challenges.
By the end of this session, you should be able to
Multiple-choice tests are traditionally used to assess knowledge and recall of facts. However, in this workshop, participants will learn how to design test items that can capture students’ critical thinking skills (e.g., application, analysis, synthesis, etc.) based on sound student learning outcomes.
By the end of this session, participants should be able to:
This workshop is designed to help faculty promote and assess critical thinking in their courses. A primary objective of the workshop is to define and illustrate critical thinking as an instructional objective from the various perspectives of the disciplines represented by the faculty in attendance. Participants will review and develop appropriate techniques for promoting critical thinking in their courses.
By the end of this session, participants should be able to:
Rubrics are excellent instruments for grading students’ work in a consistent, transparent and timely fashion. In this hand-on workshop, participants will learn how to use free online rubrics programs to develop or construct rubrics and apply them to the grading process. Further, discussions will center on how to use rubrics to provide students with clarity relative to expectations as well as a better understanding of assignment grades.
By the end of this session, participants should be able to:
Are you looking for interesting and informal assessment strategies to enhance student learning in your course(s)? Are you interested in finding out how you can make adjustments to your instructional approaches based on valuable feedback from your students? This session explores a variety of simple, effective, and low-stakes formative assessment techniques that not only provide information about students’ knowledge and skills at a given point in time, but also gives timely feedback that instructors can use to make instructional adjustments.
At the end of the session, participants should be able to:
Curriculum mapping (in the context of program assessment) is a process of systematically aligning program level student learning outcomes with required courses and related educational experiences, as well as corresponding assessments used to measure each learning outcome. In light of this, a curriculum map (or curriculum matrix) can be quite helpful in (1) revealing various levels of relationships between core/required courses and learning outcomes, (2) showing contributions of individual courses to the program curriculum, (3) identifying any gaps that may exist, and (4) providing opportunities to plan program-level assessment.
By the end of this session, workshop participants should be able to:
Although student ratings of instruction (commonly referred to as course evaluations) are normally viewed as a summative strategy for evaluating a course and an instructor, they can also be quite beneficial in terms of enhancing teaching and learning. This workshop focuses on tips to help you extract specific information/feedback from your evaluations that you can use to enhance your teaching while at the same time, improving student learning.
By the end of this session, you should be able to:
To schedule an individual faculty or group faculty consultation or workshop, please contact Felix Wao at wao@ou.edu. If you have any suggestions for future workshops and/or wish to comment on current offerings please feel free to contact us at assessment@ou.edu.
