UC IrvineDUE Assessment Group Interview Project Administrative Intern
Sep. 2012 - Jun. 2013Irvine, CAThe Assessment, Research & Evaluation Group's mission is to support excellence in undergraduate education by providing information on and analysis of undergraduate students, programs, and polices for use in planning and decision making by the Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education, the Academic Senate, and other campus leaders. Over the last several years, UCI has increasingly taken a more systematic and coordinated approach to student learning assessment, as detailed at this site. Our unit has been central to the conceptualization and initiation of assessment activity at the undergraduate level and now, in cooperation with the Assessment Committee, in the full implementation of assessment at the program level. Throughout this time, we have worked to frame assessment as a means of improving our academic programs and curricula and engaging faculty and administrators in the conversation on explicating what our students have learned and how best to act on our findings. Some examples of our assessment work include programs' development of student learning outcomes, assessment plans, and reports; the Assessment Grant Program; the Assessment Information Management System (AIMS); and our year-end event, the Assessment Colloquy (2010, 2011, 2012), and 2011 Richard Light visit. I personally worked directly on the redevelopment of the grounded theory qualitative analysis interviewing tool in Fall 2012, management and coaching of 10 undergraduate interns to prepare them for rich and detailed interview results for the data collection phase of Winter 2013 , and assist in analysis and compilation of qualitative interview results for the Dean of Undergraduate Education in Spring 2013.