Student Learning Outcomes Assessment and LIS Program Presentations

Student Learning Outcomes Assessment: A Component of Program Assessment

Assessment efforts in higher education have evolved as a response to demands by external forces such as legislative and accrediting bodies asking for better accountability evidence.1 Further, an executive order required all federally approved accrediting organizations to include evidence of institutional outcomes in their criteria for accreditation.2 This mandate requested that each program des...

Assessment, Accountability, and Student Learning Outcomes

In the last fifteen years two trends have gained prominence throughout higher education: assessment and accountability. For various historical reasons, and the source of considerable confusion, both are erroneously referred to as "assessment." The first, "assessment for excellence," is an information feedback process to guide individual students, faculty members, programs, and schools in improv...

Computer Science Programs, Goals, Student Learning Outcomes and their Assessment

In this paper we describe the process used by MET Computer Science to identify programs, goals, and student learning outcomes for all our programs and graduate certificates. We illustrate how we started the process of assessing learning outcomes for our programs and present actual assessment results from the data collected for two programs that went through accreditation--it describes sample di...

Use assessment-for- learning principles to improve student outcomes

The Effect of Powerpoint Presentations on Student Learning and Attitudes

In recent years, the uses of PowerPoint (a form of multimedia) presentations in classroom instruction have significantly increased globally without examination of their effects on student learning and attitudes. In this study, we test whether using PowerPoint in an accounting course enhances student short-term memory, long-term memory, and attitudes toward class presentation and the instructor....