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Examples of Assessment by Institution |
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Dartmouth College: As an effort to assess and improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning, Dartmouth College's Arts and Sciences and Thayer School of Engineering developed a course assessment tool. At the end of each term, undergraduate students are asked to respond to questions relating to the overall quality of each course, how intellectually engaged they were in the course and the level of clarity and organization of the class. In addition, the students are asked to comment on the individual instructor in regards to the overall effectiveness of his or her teaching, the clarity with which he or she explains central concepts, and his or her availability outside of class. In some cases individual departments or professors ask department or course-specific questions in the evaluation form, to which the students also respond. Once the course evaluation information is collected and analyzed, individual faculty members can access this information and use the feedback to improve their teaching and/or refine their course for future offerings. The department or program chair can access this information to help assess the departmental or program curriculum and to interpret the impact of curricular changes. The Divisional Deans can access this information to gauge overall student satisfaction with teaching at Dartmouth and provide professional development and mentorship opportunities to faculty that they advise.
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