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
Building upon our assessment work in the winter, we'll be examining the link between clearly articulated expectations in our assignments and if (or how) they lead to better oral presentations from our students at the upper division, perhaps with the goal of preparing an assignment guideline for best practices.
GE Area A2 Writing Assessment Cooperative
Facilitator: Nanda Warren
We will be continuing our work on materials to respond to our assessment results and designing our summer assessment plan.
GE Area A3 Critical Thinking Cooperative
Facilitator: Patrick Belanger
We will discuss readings & assignments related to the teaching of critical thinking, create a website that houses such materials, and share it with colleagues. We will think about how to align A3 & GEPLO & ULO 1 and create a one page document that assists faculty who are seeking: 1) GE certification or recertification for A3 and/or GEPLO for critical thinking, and 2) to align course materials with ULO 1 critical thinking.
Information Literacy Cooperative
Facilitator: Sarah Dahlen
We continue to talk about how we are teaching IL in our classes. We will discuss the role of information literacy and equity gaps, including planning for summer assessment.
Quantitative Reasoning Cooperative
Facilitator: Jennifer Clickenbeard
We will research indirect assessment tools in QR. We plan to create our own indirect assessment tool that is aligned to the categories of our revised rubric. We plan to create the tool in Google forms and pilot it for our summer assessment project. Our goal is to have a ready-to-adapt indirect assessment tool that can be easily used in program assessment to complement the results of direct assessment using the rubric.
Personal, Professional, and Social Responsibility Cooperative
Facilitator: Hojin Song
Our scholar group will be helping programs assess ULO2 for their program review.
Integrative Knowledge Cooperative
Facilitator: Amanda Pullum
We conducted job interview prep workshops using IK. We created and presented a two-part workshop series for CHEM students. We served approximately 50 students.
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.