Indiana University’s Learning Analytics Fellows, Jennifer Meta Robinson, Logan Paul, Jill Robinson, and Ken Shan have received a Mini-Grant from the Association of American Universities. The two-year, $20,000 award will advance their “Grade Surprise” research, allowing them to create and test interventions to improve student success in large STEM course. Please see the full announcement here. … [Read more...]
Can Data Make you a Better Teacher?
BVA members, George Rehrey from Indiana University Bloomington and Marco Molinari from UC Davis, are featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education's story about data. The article, Can Data Make You a Better Teacher? can only be accessed by Chronicle subscribers, however many institutions have subscriptions allowing their faculty and staff to read it. … [Read more...]
Better Together: New partnerships between assessment and faculty development
by Pat Hutchings and Mary Deane Sorcinelli The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)—held January 23-26th in Atlanta, Georgia--focused on the need to create more compelling narratives about the value of higher education. Two critical elements in doing so are the assessment of student learning outcomes and faculty development. The idea that these two activities might be “better together,” working in partnership with each other, was the theme … [Read more...]