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Below you will find presentations and handouts from the 2010 Assessment Conference. Presentations from previous conferences are also available.

- Plenary
- Workshops
- Other Sessions
- Bookstore List

Plenary

	Seeing 2020:  Building on a Decade of Assessment (presentation)  - 5th Year Interim Report Dr. Belle S. Wheelan, President, Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (COCSACS)
	The Core of Bologna: Its Arrival in the U.S. is Inevitable---and it’s Here, Now! Clifford Adelman, Institute for Higher Education

Workshops

	W-1.1   Getting Started in Assessment: A Practical Approach Susan Hatfield Ph.D., Assessment Coordinator, Winona State Univeristy
	W-1.2    The Mobius Strip: Aligning Faculty Needs and Assessment Requirements Catherine Wehlburg Ph.D., Executive Director, Office for Assessment and Quality Enhancement, Texas Christian University
	W-1.3    The Power of Portfolios: Using Portfolios to Assess Student Learning Outcomes Katie Busby Ph.D., Director, Institutional Assessment, Tulane University
	W-1.4    Assessing Academic Advising Through Student Learning Outcomes Kristin Harper, Loraine Phillips, Linda Windle, & Summer Odom, Texas A&M University
	W-2.1    General Education Program Assessments Joan Hawthorne Ph.D., Assistant Provost, University of North Dakota
	W-2.3    Curricular Redesign Barbara Millis Ph.D., Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, University of Texas at San Antonio
	W-2.4    Beyond Compliance:  Strategies for Being an Assessment Leader Linda Dickens Ph.D., Senior Program Coordinator for Outcomes Assessment University of Texas at Austin
	W-2.5    Leveraging Your Assessment Efforts Across Multiple Data Sources to Better Inform Decision-Making:  A Data Integration Primer for Student Affairs Administrators Ted Elling Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Systems Development University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Other Sessions

	Accreditation through Teamwork: What Happens When Assessment is a Shared Task Sharon Perkins Hall, Krishani Abeysekera, Hisham Al-Mubaid, & Kim Edwards, University of Houston-Clear Lake
	A User-Friendly Demonstration of Principal Components Analysis as a Data Reduction Method R. Michael Haynes, & Keith Lamb, Midwestern State University
	An Engaging Assessment: From Our QEP to Yours Michelle Bair, Jennifer Hughes , & Sabrina Sattler , Texas Tech University
	An Evolutionary Tale: Effective Faculty Involvement from Reluctant to Enthusiastic! Dana Harwell, Denise Knight , & Jan Miller , University of West Alabama
	Assessing Distance Learning at Carteret Community College-Methodology and Meaning Donald Staub, Carteret Community College
	Assessing General Education Outcomes: Findings from a Survey of Texas Public Colleges and Universities Wendy Erisman, Higher Education Policy Institute, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
	Assessing Institutional Assessment Integration Efforts: Where is Your Campus? Catherine Wehlburg, Texas Christian University
	Assessing Learning Outcomes in Student Affairs John M. Cissik, Texas Woman's University
	Assessing the Gap: Theory to Practice Chynette Nealy, University of Houston Downtown
	Assessment at the Course Level: Not a Burden, But Rather a Benefit! Bruce F. Bockhorn, Prairie View A&M University
	Assessment Outside of Educational Programs: A Consulting Guide Rebecca Lewis, University of Texas at Arlington
	Authentication of Student Work and Exam Integrity Brenda Coppard, Tracy A. Chapman, Alfred Bracciano, & Tom Lenz, Creighton University
	Begin with the End in Mind': Effective Dimensions of Assessment in Academic and Student Affairs Ge Chen, Glen Baumgart, & R. Joseph Rodriguez, The University of Texas at Austin
	But I Learned All This in High School”: Modeling Why Students Drop Core Curriculum Courses John David Rausch, Jr., & Mary Scanlon Rausch , West Texas A&M University
	Closing the Loop: Using Data to Improve Academic Programs Frederick Burrack, Kansas State University
	Cultivating a Culture of Assessment through a Communities of Practice Model Jacqueline Peña, & Katherine Perez, Florida International University
	Curriculum Mapping in the Community College: Treating Disciplines like "Programs" Karen C. Laljiani, & Melissa B. Weston, El Centro College
	Examples of Good Practice in Assessment of Academic Advising Kristin Harper, Christine Farris , Holly Gaede , & Deborah Hull , Texas A&M University
	Faculty Learning Communities for Assessing General Education: Not Just Another Committee! Catherine Wehlburg, Texas Christian University
	Faculty Training in Course-Level Learning Outcomes: A Process, a Tool, and Data Collected and Used to Improve Instruction     (presentation posted to youtube) Jeff King, Romana Hughes, C. Magnus L. Rittby, & Chris Sawyer, Texas Christian University
	Fostering a Culture of Local Assessment: Helping Faculty Design Their Own Course-Specific Pre-Post Tests David J. Silva, The University of Texas at Arlington
	Gateway to Information Literacy: Bridging the Gap for Provisionally Admitted Students Mary Jo Lyons, & Gretchen Trkay , University of Texas at Arlington
	Get SMART, Take ACTION: Institutionalizing Effective Program Review Eric Daffron, Mississippi University for Women, & Sandra Jordan, Georgia College and State University
	Grading a Writing Intensive Course - How to Create Feedback for Hundreds of Papers a Semester Misti Hill Carter, & Judy K. Cryer , Texas A&M University
	Hidden Barriers to Critical Thinking: Assessment and Solutions C.J. Bibus, Wharton County Junior College
	Increasing the Impact of General Education Assessment Through Alignment with Professional Schools Joseph Untener, & Paul Sweeney, University of Dayton
	Integrating Institutional and Professional Accreditation Assessment Procedures for Strategic Planning by the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences John K. Thomas, &, Gary Ellis , Texas A&M University
	Involving Faculty in Restructuring a Core Curriculum at Texas Tech University Gary S. Elbow, & Valerie Oslund Paton, Texas Tech University
	Leveraging Assessment: The Trebuchet Approach Rosemary Sundet, & Cathy Kemper , Blinn College
	Measuring the Effect of Distance In Continuing Education: Assessing Program Objectives and Personal Learning Outcomes of Practicing Veterinarians Noberto F. Espitia, Texas A & M University
	"P's and Q's" of a QEP Denise Martinez, Melissa Roberts Becker, & Benedda Konvicka, Tarleton State University
	Rising to Converge: A Working Method for Linking Course to Program to University Objectives Nancy Small, Texas A&M University & John Cornwell , Rice University
	"Rubrics Rock!" Using Rubrics to Assess Authentic Student Learning Helen E. Woodman, Christine Conley-Sowels, & Clifton Franklund, Ferris State University
	Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something TRUE! Jan Miller, Denise Knight, & Dana Harwell, The University of West Alabama
	Steps in Moving from a General Education Core To an Intellectual Foundations Curriculum: Lessons Learned Along the Way Gail Wisan, Florida Atlantic University
	Strategies for Implementing a Systematic Institutional Assessment Process Katherine Perez, Jacqueline Peña, Florida International University
	Student Evaluations: What Are They Telling Me? Mark Troy, & Jean Layne, Texas A&M University
	Students as Test Creators! Denise Knight, Dana Harwell, & Jan Miller, University of West Alabama
	Student Services and the Principles of Accreditation Michel A. Zuch, Cathy Kemper , & Rosemary Sundet , Blinn College
	Teaching and Assessing Critical Reading Skills in College History Classes: Implementing an Approach that Works Charles A. Garabedian, Southwest Texas Junior College
	The Case AGAINST Measuring Student Outcomes Data to Demonstrating Institutional Accountability Eliot S. Elfner, St. Norbert College
	The Third I: The African-American Male Initiative (AAMI) of the University System of Georgia (USG) Sharon R. Duhart, & Janice Fournillier, Georgia State University
	Using Accreditation to Link Strategic Planning and Assessment Douglas A. Mains, Thomas J. Fairchild, & Marc Foster, University of North Texas Health Science Center
	Using Assessment to Propel General Education Reform Christopher Tokpah, & Mark Masters, Indiana University Purdue University-Fort Wayne
	Using Performance Assessments to Support Program Effectiveness Julie Wood, Midwestern State University, Christy Wallace, Collin College, Central Park Campus & Leslie Waugh, Texas Christian University
	Using Portfolios and E-Portfolios with Students Elisa Beth McNeill, & Susan Wagner , Texas A&M University
	Using Rubric-Guided Student-Generated Video Podcasts as a Performance Assessment Tool and an Active Learning Tool Ying Xiong, & Imin Kao , Stony Brook University
	Using Student-generated Text as Assessment for Learning Ronald S. Beebe, & Irene L. Chen, University of Houston-Downtown
	Using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy to Develop Programmatic Student Learning Objectives Paul Toprac, Southern Methodist University
	Using Web-based Portfolios to Assess Student Learning Outcomes and to Support Program Assessment* Frederick Burrack, Kansas State University
	Web 2.0 Tools and RIAs to Support Assessment Efforts Mary Bold, National Council on Family Relations

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