ULO Scholars Program
Assessment is only as good as the conversations it generates.
From the Academic Senate Assessment Committee
Call for 2024 ULO Scholars
All faculty (part-time and full-time lecturers and tenure line) are invited to support student achievement of CSUMB’s Undergraduate Learning Outcomes (ULOs) by applying to be a ULO Scholar and contributing to one or more of the funded projects described below.
Each project will consist of two parts.
- A fall 2024 cooperative (meets for 1 - 2 hours approximately 6 times over the semester).
- A work group that will study student work to inform assignment design, pedagogy, and professional development (meets for 2 - 3 consecutive days in summer, fall, or winter/spring).
Meeting dates and times will be determined by the facilitators and ULO Scholars.
Faculty can apply to either or both activities and faculty can apply and participate in more than one project.
Background information
- CSUMB undergraduate and graduate learning outcomes
- Holistic alignment
- ULO assignment guides, rubrics, and threshold concepts
- Using assessment results
- CSUMB assessment philosophy & practice
2024 ULO projects & descriptions
Up to 6 faculty members will be accepted per project.
GE Area A1 Oral Communication Cooperative
Facilitators: Lee Ritscher
Analyze and reflect on results from the winter 2024 Assessment of upper division students public speaking and anticipate the results of our summer Assessment of upper division student presentation prompts.
GE Area A2 Written Communication Cooperative
Facilitator: Nanda Warren
Prepare reader-friendly materials (infographic) to share results of the spring 2024 GWAR student survey with GWAR faculty and students. Disseminate by the end of this semester. Analyze and reflect on results from summer assessment.
GE Area A3 Critical Thinking Cooperative
Facilitator: Patrick Belanger
Analyze and reflect on results from the summer 2024 assessment. Discuss model assignments. Potentially revisit the rubric in light of feedback from the summer 2024 assessment.
Information Literacy Cooperative
Facilitator: Sarah Dahlen
Analyze data from summer assessment and determine implications for teaching and learning.
Quantitative Reasoning Cooperative
Facilitator: Jennifer Clickenbeard
Discuss the findings from the summer assessment (analyzed 400+ responses collected to pilot the indirect assessment tool) and work on the revisions and a faculty guide for the QR indirect assessment tool.
Personal, Professional, and Social Responsibility Cooperative
Facilitator: Hojin Song
We plan to conduct member training on the rubric and revise the current version of the manual. In November, the work will consist of individually assigned tasks.
Integrative Knowledge Cooperative
Facilitator: Amanda Pullum
2023/2024 assessment statistical analysis is done; we will review the results and discuss interpretation and next steps. We would like to further examine equity gaps identified in previous assessments, and future work on equity in IK.
Collective facilitation
Participants in this cooperative reviewed the 2017 CSUMB Capstone Self-Study and developed strategies for advancing CSUMB’s capstone requirement, particularly with regard to how CSUMB’s ULOs can enhance student achievement of MLOs. This group was comprised of some members from other ULO project groups.