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Assessing Learning and Development in the Co‐Curricular Marilee Bresciani Ludvik, Ph.D. Professor, ARPE, San Diego State University
[email protected] What is the Commodity of the Higher Education Industry?
SOCIAL CHANGE
DEGREE
JOB
Depending on your Response… • How is the commodity assured to be delivered? –How is it designed, delivered, and evaluated to achieve this? –What is your role in contributing to that? Bresciani Ludvik, M. J.
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“ We can’t solve problems with the same kind of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein
Transformational Process of Learning and Development
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“Learning is one of the defining aspects of being human. Truly profound learning experiences change who we are—we change through learning.” — Peter Senge
The Linear Student Learning and Development Experience (Bresciani Ludvik, 2016)
Performance Indicators/Dashboard
Inputs
Integrated Exp.
Outcomes
Outcomes‐based Evidence Competency‐based Evidence
The Non‐Linear Learning and Development Experience (Bresciani Ludvik, 2016) Performance Indicators/Dashboard
Outcomes Inputs/ PLA
Integrated Experience
Outcomes-based Evidence and Competency-based Evidence Via reflective student learning and development portfolios
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How do we foster meaningful reflection so students can make these connections?
“Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival.” —W. Edwards Deming
NEUROPLASTICITY
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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” ‐ John Muir
NEUROPLASTICITY AND LEARNING
Insula
“There can be no knowledge without emotion. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.” — Arnold Bennett
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WE CAN TRAIN Attention, Emotion, and Cognitive Regulation Awareness Reflection
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What would it look like to consider the entirety of the learning process In the assessment of your programs and services?
Integrative Inquiry (Bresciani Ludvik, 2016)
Known/Evidence
Via Courses & Prior Learning Unknown/ Spontaneous Creativity Via Intentional “Messy” Opportunities
Feel/Sense
Student learning and development
Via Facilitated Experiences
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The Non‐Linear Learning and Development Experience (Bresciani Ludvik, 2016) Performance Indicators/Dashboard
Outcomes Inputs/ PLA
Integrated Experience
Outcomes-based Evidence and Competency-based Evidence Via reflective student learning and development portfolios
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CRITICAL ASSESSMENT
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.” — John Dewey
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“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” — Albert Einstein
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What are the Opportunities? Bresciani Ludvik, M. J.
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Integrative Inquiry (INIQ) Logic Model Inputs
Activities
Measures
Foundation Support Interdisciplinary Research Team
Focused Breathing and Movement Exercises; MBSR; task‐switching
Summative: Pre‐ and Post‐: CCTDI, MAAS, TMMS, SCS, Beck, PSS, Resiliency
Neuroplasticity
Self‐Inquiry, Journaling, Group Dialogue
Formative: Pre‐ and Post‐ Test survey, ‐AAC&U Rubrics applied to journal analysis, assignment analysis, and applied project analysis
Attention, Emotion, and Cognitive Regulation
Applied Community Service Project Via Online Modules
Outcomes Truth‐seeking, Open‐mindedness, Analyticity, Systematicity, Confidence in Reasoning, Inquisitiveness, and Maturity of Judgment
Increased attention, emotion, and cognitive regulation
Impacts Increased critical thinking dispositions Increased academic success Decreased stress and anxiety Increased Resiliency
ON‐GOING REFLECTION • How do we see learning and development occurring in our area? • How are we using assessment to foster improvements in that? • What is my specific role in ensuring that critical assessment happens? • What else do I think we need to make improvements happen?
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Citation Available from Stylus Publishing
Questions? Mbrescia@ mail.sdsu.edu
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