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Seton Hall Embraces Assessment with Technology: A Case Study
10/10/2007
" The Blackboard Outcomes System will help to capture and store electronic evaluations of students' fieldwork, saving time over the old paper process. Shared, easy-to-create rubrics help ensure consistent scoring; curriculum planning tools help faculty to contribute to the college's broader mission and meet accreditation standards. The Outcomes Portfolio helps foster greater student engagement in their learning and facilitates richer feedback from instructors and peers."Universal Proficiencies" - Seton Hall is also using Blackboard's flexible platform to collect and evaluate student work using rubrics to measure and improve on student achievement of Seton Hall's "Universal Proficiencies." These intended outcomes of the Seton Hall experience include oral communication, reading and writing, critical thinking, numerical literacy, and information fluency.
First year writing - Strong writing skills are a fundamental goal at Seton Hall. The university is using the Blackboard Outcomes System to assess and increase the effectiveness of its First-Year Writing Program. Outcomes portfolios will help students reflect on their growth as writers.
The Blackboard Outcomes System has emerged at Seton Hall as a comprehensive assessment solution to support continuous improvement processes in academic and administrative units and provide multiple instruments to measure institutional effectiveness, including surveys, course evaluations, evaluation of student work, and portfolios.
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