Professional Development
Academic Assessment

Workshop with Co-Curricular Programs on using NSSE/BSSE to advance student success. 

• What's Your Evidence (​PowerPoint)

Does the student experience align with the perception of faculty? What does the NSSE/FSSE data tell us about our students and how can we use this information to improve our courses and programs? What potential actions might faculty take to close any gaps?  

• Closing the Experience Gap (PowerPoint)

Integrate three key elements of effective teaching—identifying significant learning goals, implementing engaging instructional activities, and analyzing/reporting findings to multiple stakeholders – to move from compliance to meaningful student learning. 

• More than Results (PowerPoint)
• LAT Basic Workshop Worksheet
• LAT Quick Reference Guide
• Learning Goal Inventory

How the Assessment Committee and LAC might collaborate to engage faculty, through faculty development activities, in the use of assessment findings.  

• Collaborating for Improved Student Learning (PowerPoint)

UNLV’s Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education project (TILT Higher Ed) has identified transparent, problem-centered instruction as a replicable intervention that significantly enhances students' success, with greater gains for historically underserved students.

Review the findings and find opportunities for faculty members to apply transparent principles to their assignment.

• Transparent Assignment Design (PowerPoint)
• Example of Transparent and Nontransparent Assignment 
• Transparent Assignment Template
• Checklist for Designing a Transparent Assignment
• TILT Higher Education
• NILOA assignment design resources
• Transparent 2nd Tuesdays-UNLV