February
2- 4, 2005
TradeWinds Island Grand Hotel
St. Pete Beach, Florida
Make
plans to join us on the beach for this intensive working experience!
This working
institute will be an intensive two and a half
days focused on the components of a successful assessment
program as well as specific strategies and tools
for developing and implementing assessment programs
on your campus.
Who
Should Attend
The Assessment
of Academic Advising Insititute is designed for directors of
advising, vice-presidents, presidents, department
charipersons, directors of assessment/institutional research,
deans, associate deans, assistant deans, advising
coordinators, and campus advising task force members.
Format
The Assessment of
Advising Institute provides a foundation for participants regarding
assessment’s critical elements, purposes, and processes.
Through presentations and small group discussion/working sessions,
participants explore strategies for the assessment of academic
advising programs--including establishing clear goals and outcomes
and developing assessment measures for these goals and outcomes.
The use of the Guide to Assessment in Academic Advising offers
a template for the development of a comprehensive assessment
plan that emanates from a campus mission statement for academic
advising, continues through the development of process/delivery
and student learning outcomes, mapping of outcomes, gathering
of evidence, and sharing and acting upon results. The Institute
provides participants with an understanding of the cyclical and
ongoing nature of assessment. Most importantly, the Institute
offers participants the opportunity to work with colleagues from
similar institutional types and with other professionals and
experts in the fields of advising and assessment to develop comprehensive
assessment plans for their respective campuses.
In addition to providing participants grounding in assessment
principles and strategies, the Assessment of Advising Institute
offers more in-depth experiences for those who attended last
year’s Assessment Seminar and/or have begun assessment
work on their campuses. Special sessions and activities have
been designed for those who are interested in reviewing, refining,
and extending their assessment plans. In particular, sessions
that provide more depth in developing outcomes, identifying measures
through which to gather evidence and matching measures with outcomes
have been designed for participants who are at a more advanced
level with regard to assessment. For these participants, the
Institute will provide both a refresher of fundamental assessment
concepts and opportunities to explore areas in more depth via
presentation and small group discussions and activities.
Click
here
To find a description of those who would find the Foundation
sessions and group discussions most valuable
Click
here To find a description
of those who find the more indepth
sessions and group discussions
most valuable
Note:
This is an intensive, working institute; you may want to
schedule an extra day in Florida to enjoy the Gulf
and surrounding area.
Please
keep checking back. We will post information as it becomes available.
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