Excellence in Student Learning Outcomes Award
This award recognizes an academic degree program that is committed to best practices in assessment, improving student learning, and continuous program improvement.
Criteria
To qualify for the Excellence in Student Learning Outcomes Award, the program must:
Involve stakeholders in assessment
- Identify and clearly share high quality program goals and student learning outcomes
- Demonstrate engagement of program faculty in planning, collecting data, interpreting data, and using the results to make improvements to curriculum, instruction, or assessment practices
- Share results and recommendations for improvements with internal and external stakeholders
Establish effective assessment planning and implementation processes, and
- Advocate for high standards in defining academic quality
- Clearly articulate how program-level student learning outcomes are assessed
- Utilize effective data collection tools and approaches
- Implement direct assessment methods consistent with best practices
- Establish appropriate benchmarks for program/degree level
- Implement a sustainable and annual data collection process
- Utilize assessment management system (Taskstream) to archive and track findings/results, recommendations, and action steps
Demonstrate continuous improvement
- Provide evidence of a consistent (multi-year) use of student learning and program assessment results to guide improvements to curriculum, instruction, services, etc.
- Evaluate the usefulness of assessment efforts and strategies and make changes when needed
- Demonstrate a culture of assessment within the college/campus
Nomination Process
Annually, representatives from each college or degree-granting unit can select one program to be nominated for the award and complete an online nomination form. Academic program leaders may also nominate their programs. Each program will be reviewed by the award committee.
If you would like to nominate a program, please complete and submit a nomination form to Leah Bradley lmbdfp@rit.edu by January 20, 2023.
Award Recipients
Bachelor of Science in ASL English Interpretation program, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Bioinformatics Master’s Program, College of Science
MS, Health Systems Management, College of Health Sciences and Technology
Program Director: Carla Stebbins, Ph.D.
Program Faculty: Richard Belloff, DBA, Chris Hyers, Sally Loughry, Jodi Lubba, Travis Masonis, William Myers, Ph.D., Larry O’Meal, Patricia Poteat, Ph.D.
The Digital Humanities and Social Sciences BS Program, College of Liberal Arts
Program Director: Jessica Lieberman
Administrative Council: Sharon Beckford-Foster, Peter Byrne, Tamar Carroll, Jonathan Kruger, Michael Laver, Kelly Martin, Brian Schroeder, David Schwartz, Stephen Zilora
Program Faculty and Staff: Jason Arena, Dan Bogaard, Shaun Foster, Robert Glick, Trent Hergenrader, Stephen Jacobs, Ammina Kothari, Elizabeth Lawley, Hinda Mandell, Anne Royston, Corinna Schlombs, Jonathan Schroeder,David Simkins, Whitney Sperrazza, Rebecca Walker, Tammara Wickson
Master of Science for Teachers (MST) Visual Arts—All Grades program, School of Art, College of Art and Design
Glen Hintz, Department Chair
Lauren Ramich, Program Director
Department faculty and staff: Robert Antonucci, Melanie Martinek, Fran Chinnock, Janet Gibbons Morris, Chris Jackson, Lauren Purvis
BS Chemical Engineering, Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Steve Weinstein, Chair
Department Faculty and Staff: Paul Gregorius, Poornima Padmanabhan, Anju Gupta, Vicki Rocha, Stephanie Hart, Reginald Rogers, Jen Kamish, Kenneth Ruschak, Karuna Koppula, Patricia Taboada-Serrano, Brian Landi, Yasemin Dilsad Yilmazel, Julie Olney
Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts Faculty and Staff
Suzanne Bamonto, Brian Barry, Joseph Baschnagel, Robert Bowen, A. Eleanor Chand-Matzke, Jessamy Comer, Kirsten Condry, Caroline DeLong, Nicholas DiFonzo, John Edlund, Stephanie Godleski, Andrew M. Herbert, Rebecca Houston, Jennifer Lukomski, Scott Merydith, Vincent Pandolfi, Susan Powell, Esa Rantanen, Lindsay S. Schenkel, Paula Schneider, Alan Smerbeck, Tina Sutton, Christine VanHemel
AAS Administrative Support Technology, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Mary Lou Basile; Department Chair, Business Studies Department
AST Program Faculty: Adriana Kulakowski, Tracy Magin, Mary Beth Parker, Kathleen Szczepanek
Contact
Leah Bradley, Director of the Office of Educational Effectiveness Assessment, lmbdfp@rit.edu