Professional Development Curriculum
StudentVoice Professional Development Curriculum webinars are now marked with equivalencies for:
The following sessions require Internet and phone access and group participation is welcomed.
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StudentVoice 2010 Member Meeting Update
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- Thursday, March 25, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, April 7, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
Weren't able to attend the StudentVoice Annual Member Meeting? Want to learn about the upcoming enhancements to the StudentVoice assessment platform designed specifically for higher education professionals? Join us in this session as we review the new concepts, tools, and information (including future trends in higher education assessment) that were shared with those in attendance in Chicago in early March.
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StudentVoice Updates!
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- Wednesday, January 13, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Thursday, January 21, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
As you may know, StudentVoice is constantly developing new features to meet the evolving needs of our Member Campuses as well as assessment best practices. Join us in this session as we review new and advanced StudentVoice tools and services that you can use to achieve assessment success on your campus. Topics include rubrics, key performance indicators, assessment planning, custom benchmarking, and much, much more! (All features discussed are included in your StudentVoice Fundamentals license.)
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How to Use StudentVoice: Fundamentals
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- Wednesday, January 6, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Friday, January 15, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, January 20, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Thursday, January 28, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Friday, February 5, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Thursday, February 11, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, February 17, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Monday, February 22, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Thursday, March 4, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, March 17, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Tuesday, April 6, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Friday, April 23, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Monday, May 3, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, May 19, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
For new StudentVoice users! This beginner's webinar will review how to use the StudentVoice Fundamentals features and support available to you: consultation, professional development, Community site, benchmarks, project administration & data collection, and reporting. We will also show you a live demo of the StudentVoice portal.
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How to Use StudentVoice: Reporting Site
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- Wednesday, January 6, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Friday, January 15, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, January 20, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Thursday, January 28, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Friday, February 5, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Thursday, February 11, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, February 17, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Monday, February 22, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Thursday, March 4, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, March 17, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Tuesday, April 6, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Friday, April 23, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Monday, May 3, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, May 19, 3:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
During this session we will provide step-by-step instructions on how to use the tools and functions available in the StudentVoice results site to review your data. Even if you haven't collected data yet, it is helpful to know how you will use the data when you are still in the assessment planning stages. Participants will learn how to create and customize graphs, apply filters to view subsets of data, create saved views of data, export data, and more! This session will include a live demonstration of each of these tools via the StudentVoice website.
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How to Use StudentVoice: Custom Benchmarking
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- Monday, January 11, 2:00 - 2:30 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, February 24, 2:00 - 2:30 pm Eastern
- Thursday, March 18, 2:00 - 2:30 pm Eastern
- Tuesday, April 27, 2:00 - 2:30 pm Eastern
- Tuesday, May 25, 2:00 - 2:30 pm Eastern
This session will provide an overview of when and how to use the Custom Benchmarking report setup for comparisons of data across time, between groups or programs, or before and after an intervention. In addition to sharing examples and ideas for practical use on campus, we will also demonstrate how to use the Custom Benchmarking reporting tools on the StudentVoice website to create comparison views once you have data.
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How to Use StudentVoice: Management
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- Tuesday, February 2, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Friday, April 2, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Monday, May 17, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
This webinar will outline how to use the Management tool. We will review the organization and set-up of the tool and then review the following: how to enter goals, objectives, outcome, etc.; how to connect these items with the overarching items they support; and how to make connections to projects and data that are in the StudentVoice site. *Please note that this webinar is geared toward campuses whose licenses include the Management program.
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How to use StudentVoice: Benchmarking
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- Tuesday, May 11, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
This webinar will review how to utilize the StudentVoice Benchmarking features to review your benchmark results. If you've recently participated in a StudentVoice benchmarking study, this is a must for you!
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Living, Learning, and Linking: A Guide to Writing and Implementing Student Involvement Outcomes
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- Tuesday, May 18, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
Participants will learn how to write program and learning outcomes within the context of student involvement. These outcomes will help them to assess what their students are gaining from involvement on their campus, so they can improve their opportunities in the future. Furthermore, the session will provide an overview of how to link learning domains within CollegiateLink to specific campus activities.
Assessment 110 - Articulating Purpose and Mapping Activities
Content Standard 2: Articulating Learning and Development Outcomes
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Sustainability and Student Learning Outcomes: Linking Green Efforts with Assessment
Facilitated by Dr. Kimberly Yousey-Elsener and Staci Lynne Ripkey
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- Wednesday, April 14, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
Most institutions begin their "green" movement through facilities and systems management such as building greener buildings, using more energy efficient light bulbs, recycling, etc. But what they are missing is connecting their sustainability efforts to student learning and assessing that learning. This session looks at how you can tie your sustainability and assessment efforts together. It will focus on creating learning outcomes around sustainability issues as well as assessment tools to help you assess those outcomes.
Assessment 110 - Articulating Purpose and Mapping Activities
Content Standard 1: Assessment Design
Content Standard 2: Articulating and Developing Learning Outcomes
Content Standard 3: Selection of Data Collection and Management Methods
About the presenters:
Dr. Kimberly Yousey-Elsener is a freelance higher education assessment consultant and adjunct faculty member at West Virginia University. She also serves as the Chair-Elect for ACPA's Commission on Assessment and is the assessment liaison with ACPA's Task force on Sustainability. She earned her PhD. in higher education administration from New York University.
Staci Lynne Ripkey is Director for Orientation / Associate Director for Advising at New York University's College of Arts and Science, as well as an active member of the NYU Sustainability Advocates program. Staci earned her masters degree in higher education/student personnel administration from NYU, and is currently working toward her doctorate in higher education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Planning for Success: Outcome Planning and Assessment Design
Facilitated by Gavin Henning, Associate Director for Assessment , Dartmouth College; and Margaret Leary, Associate Dean of Students, University of San Diego
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- Monday, January 25, 2:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern
Planning and assessing outcomes is an integrated process. Good planning cannot be performed without good assessment, and good assessment requires good planning. It is a cyclical process. In this webinar, we will outline the steps in the process and use the assessment of a first year residential experience program as an example documenting the process.
Assessment 100 - Beginning Concepts and Overview of Process
Content Standard 1: Assessment Design
About the presenters:
Margaret Leary is the Associate Dean of Students in the Student Affairs Division at the University of San Diego. In her current position, she develops and coordinates assessment efforts designed to understand student learning and development within the division and with key constituents at the University. Margaret also has experience in residential life developing living-learning communities and residential curriculum. Margaret holds a B.S. in Accountancy and an M.S. in Counseling and Human Services.
Gavin Henning is the Associate Director for Assessment at Dartmouth College. In his current position, he supports assessment and evaluation initiatives across the institution. In addition to 10 years in student affairs assessment, Gavin also has experience in a variety of student affairs areas including residential life and judicial affairs as well as teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level. He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and is past chair of ACPA's Commission for Assessment and Evaluation.
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How to Write an Effective Learning Outcome Statement
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- Friday, January 8, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, February 3, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
During this webinar, participants will be exposed to the definition of learning outcomes assessment pieces as well as the difference between learning and program outcomes. We will outline the components of a learning outcome statement and how to use the 3 Ms to make each statement manageable, measureable, and meaningful. Lastly, we will review how to make connections between learning outcomes and big picture, overarching mission statements and goals.
Assessment 110 - Articulating Purpose and Mapping Activities
Content Standard 2: Articulating Learning and Development Outcomes
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Designing an Assessment Project: From Start to Finish
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- Thursday, May 6, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
Before conducting any assessment project, it is important to plan with purpose. This webinar is designed to help student affairs professionals understand the full cycle of assessment practice from start to finish. Within this topic, we will highlight the significance of beginning assessment projects with the end in mind to achieve better results and more useable data. At the conclusion of this webinar you will be able to use this information to begin or improve both individual projects and unit assessment plans.
Assessment 100 - Beginning Concepts and Overview of Process
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Selecting a Method
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- Thursday, January 14, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
According to NASPA's latest assessment publication, Assessment Reconsidered (2008), in order to ensure rigor in our assessments, we must select a method that responds to both question and context. This webinar will outline some assessment methods, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each, and show you how to evaluate which is appropriate for your question and context. We will also review how StudentVoice can help you develop and administer these methods.
Assessment 200 - Overview of Methods and Basic Implementation Issues
Content Standard 3: Selection of Data Collection and Management Methods
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Survey Design and Questionnaire Writing Guidelines
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- Tuesday, January 19, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Tuesday, March 16, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
This webinar will address both the process and content for designing and implementing survey methodology. We will discuss timeline, questionnaire construction, response formats, obtaining useable survey responses, and data collection strategies. The session is a good refresher for folks who already use survey methodology and a good introduction for those who want to get started, but don't know where or how to begin.
Assessment 301 - Home Grown Surveys for Assessment
Content Standard 5: Surveys Used for Assessment Purposes
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Addressing Survey Fatigue: Response Rates, Sampling, and Other Things to Consider
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- Tuesday, January 26, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Monday, March 29, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
Survey fatigue is a growing concern of all educational practitioners. In this webinar, we will discuss the current issues campuses face regarding the issue of potential over-surveying of students. Strategies for addressing this issue will be presented, including methods to increase response rates, web survey best practices, and the use of incentives. Participants will learn about recent research in this area and take away ideas of how the implications from this research could affect the assessment culture on their campuses.
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Mobile Data Collection
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- Monday, February 8, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Tuesday, April 13, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
Mobile data collection is an extremely useful assessment tool. This webinar will outline how to use mobile devices as a methodology and provide examples from StudentVoice campuses. This is applicable to campuses using either of the mobile technologies (Palms or Apple devices). We will also review all of the details of setting up and using these either of these devices.
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Adding Focus Groups to Your Assessment Plan
Co-facilitated by Dr. Nathan Lindsay, UNC-Wilmington
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- Wednesday, February 10, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Monday, April 19, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
Focus groups provide an efficient method of gathering valuable qualitative data. The presenters will provide an overview of this methodology, including considerations such as sampling, question development, group facilitation, and analysis options. The session will focus specifically on how focus groups have been used for assessment in student affairs at the guest presenter's institution.
Assessment 305 - Interviews/Focus Groups in Assessment
Content Standard 6: Interviews and Focus Groups Used for Assessment Purposes
About the presenter:
Dr. Nathan K. Lindsay is the Director of Student Life Assessment at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He completed his master's in Instructional Technology at Indiana University and his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration at the University of Michigan. His research interests include efforts to enhance the holistic development of students, the improvement of learning and teaching, the integration of technology into higher education contexts, and international/comparative issues in higher education. He currently serves on the Leadership Team of the NASPA Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Knowledge Community.
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Rubrics 101: A Tool to Assess Learning
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- Friday, January 29, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, May 12, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
Rubrics are a very valuable tool for measuring learning directly and objectively. In this session, participants will learn the basics of rubric design, administration, and reporting so that they can be used to assess student learning outcomes on their campus.
Assessment 313 - Data Analysis Techniques: Rubrics
Content Standard 4: Assessment Instruments
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Reporting Assessment Results
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- Friday, February 26, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, April 21, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Friday, May 21, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
Collecting data is one of the steps in assessment, but not the final step. Once data is collected, analysis and reporting of data are necessary to receive the full benefits of assessment efforts. This webinar examines the strategies for effectively reporting assessment data including the importance of assessment planning to reporting results, various methods for reporting results, and techniques for proper use of charts, graphs, and tables.
Content Standard 11: Effective Reporting and Use of Results
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Key Performance Indicators
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- Friday, February 19, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- Wednesday, May 5, 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
This session will outline the benefits and best practices of an emerging assessment trend: the use of "key performance indicators," "dashboard indicators," or "balanced scorecards" in higher education. A demonstration of the brand new StudentVoice Performance Indicator functionality will illustrate how you can use StudentVoice to develop and measure performance indicators on your campus.
These sessions require Internet and phone access and group participation is welcomed.