Building Capacity for Course, Program, and Department Evaluation: Improving and Expanding the Student Assessment of Learning Gains Site

评估/研究（91）学生学习成果评估（SALG）工具已被证明是教师寻求形成性反馈来衡量学生学习进展和改进教学的特别有效的工具。SALG的使用通过一个相关的网站得到了极大的便利，教师可以定制SALG仪器，让学生在线完成仪器，接收原始数据和简单的统计分析，并维护对数据的存档访问。在过去的五年中，超过1000名本科教师在3000多门课程中使用了SALG，为超过65000名学生提供服务。为了响应对SALG不断增长的使用需求，该项目正在提高SALG网站的性能和可用性，并扩展网站的功能，以满足过去、现在和未来教师对新功能和更多样化功能的要求。特别是，(1)正在为项目评估人员设计一个广泛可用的仪器和站点原型版本，以支持国家科学基金会提高成本效益的资助项目评估目标；(2)正在开发、评估和实施一个适用于部门和其他学术单位的版本，用于项目评估、教师发展和认证；(3)正在试点测试SALG的机构实施。获得的知识被用来准备未来在高等教育机构使用的路线图。多学科项目团队包括SALG仪器和网站的创建者。它为项目带来了SALG使用、STEM教育计划评估、STEM大学教学、教师专业发展、专业网站开发和项目管理方面的丰富经验。知识价值。这个项目是一个以研究为基础的过程。它包括需求评估，与当前和未来的讲师用户、评估者和部门进行磋商。它正在创建新的SALG工具和网站功能，并将研究工具整合到SALG网站，使研究人员能够研究SALG的使用情况，并更广泛地研究国家评价趋势。更广泛的影响。升级后的SALG将教师直接置于形成性评价过程的中心，从而确保他们直接参与过程并受益于形成性反馈。使SALG可用于部门项目评估应该将全国更多的教师与SALG和形成性评估联系起来。SALG的扩大使用预计将导致国家STEM教师的观点和活动发生根本性变化-即增加以学生学习成果为中心的形成性课堂评估的使用，作为改善美国STEM高等教育中教师教学，课程活动和部门计划的一种手段。

Assessment/Research (91)The Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) instrument has proven to be a particularly effective tool for faculty seeking formative feedback to gauge progress in student learning and improve their instruction. Use of the SALG is greatly facilitated by an associated Web site that enables instructors to customize the SALG instrument, have students complete the instrument online, receive raw data and simple statistical analyses, and maintain archival access to their data. In the past 5 years, over 1,000 undergraduate instructors in over 3,000 courses serving more than 65,000 students have used the SALG.In response to ever-increasing demand for use of the SALG, this project is increasing the performance and usability of the SALG site and also expanding the site's capabilities to meet past, present, and future instructor requests for new and more diverse functionalities. In particular, (1) a broadly usable prototyped version of the instrument and site is being designed for project evaluators to support the NSF goal of improved evaluation of funded projects with cost efficiency, (2) a version appropriate for departments and other academic units is being developed, evaluated, and implemented for use in program evaluation, faculty development, and accreditation, and (3) an institutional implementation of the SALG is being pilot tested, and the knowledge gained used to prepare a road map for future use within institutions of higher education.The multidisciplinary project team includes the creators of the SALG instrument and Web site. It brings to the project extensive experience in SALG use, program evaluation of STEM educational initiatives, STEM college teaching, faculty professional development, professional Web site development, and project management.Intellectual merit. This project is a research-grounded process. It includes needs assessments, consultation with current and prospective instructor users, evaluators, and departments. It is creating new SALG instruments and Web site functions, and integrating research tools into the SALG site that will enable researchers to study SALG use and, more broadly, national evaluation trends. Broader impacts. The upgraded SALG places instructors squarely at the center of the formative evaluation process, thus ensuring their direct engagement with the processes and benefits of formative feedback. Making the SALG available for department program evaluations should connect even more faculty across the nation with the SALG and formative evaluation. This expanded use of the SALG is expected to lead to fundamental changes in the perspectives and activities of the national STEM faculty - namely, increased use of formative classroom assessment centered on student learning gains as a means of improving faculty teaching, course activities, and departmental programs throughout STEM higher education in the United States.