9th Annual Northern Nevada Assessment Conference
The Maturing Assessment Landscape:
Making it Work for Programs
February 4, 2011
Co-sponsored by the Assessment Staff of TMCC, WNC, & UNR
(Download Available Conference Presentations as .pdf below)
Morning Plenary
Ryan Stryffeler - Reviving an abandoned English program assessment
Diane Waryas - International Center and use of data from a pre-post inventory for student orientation
Jerry Johnson - Role of assessment in affecting curriculum change
Breakout Sessions 10:15 to 11:15
Growth Models for Assessment
Stephen Lafer, UNR
Assessment and Online Classes
Fred Lokken, Brandy Scarnati and Cathy House, TMCC
Retaining a Community of Learners with Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) in Biology
Elena Pravosudova & Pamela Sandstrom, UNR
Big, Little: Models for Undergraduate Program Assessment in the Humanities
David Fenimore, UNR
Using Assessment to Design Writing Assignments
Maureen McBride, UNR
Better Data = Better Decisions: Considering the merits of Combining Assessment and Performance Indicator Data in Academic Program Review
Diane Waryas & Laura Yavitz, CSN
Breakout Sessions 11:30 to 12:30
Online Program Assessment Procedures, Tips & Issues
Leping Liu, Livia D'Andrea &Tom Harrison, UNR
How do Today's Post-Secondary Students Learn?
Howard Rosenberg & Helen Ferguson, UNR
Balancing the Demands of Language and Content: How to Assess English as a Second Language Students in you Classroom
Rod E. Case, Gwendolyn Williams & Susand Valencia, UNR
The Effects of Active Responding via Clickers on Student Performance in an Introductory Psychology Course
Ramona Houmanfar & daniel Reimer, UNR
Assessing Core Competencies: Critical Thinking, Multicultural/Global, and Written Communication
Bea Babbitt & Angelina Hill, UNLV
Electronic Portfolios: Our Experience with a Commercial System We are Using for Student Assessment
Christine Cheney & John Cannon, UNR
Breakout Sessions 1:45 to 2:45
The Role of Formative Assessment to Improve Teaching
Teruni Lamberg, UNR
The snyergistic Relationship of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Margaret M. Ferrara, UNR
Matha O'Neill, Jennifer Harris & David Branson, WCSD
Assessment as a Mean for Student Success
Charlie Naxemian, UNR
A series of Studies Evaluate Design of an Unerdgraduate Statistics Course at UNR
SMark Alavosius, Emily Leeming & T. Wad Brown, UNR
The Scholarhip of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): How It can Benefit You and Your Students
Charlotte Borgeson, UNR
The High School to College Transition: The UNR-Washoe County School District Collaboration
Bill Cathey & Serge Herzog, UNR
