Workshop II: Creating a guide for programmatic assessment, review, and improvement in undergraduate physics programs

在美国，高等教育越来越强调问责制，越来越多的部门被要求制定和评估学习目标。 与此同时，物理系面临着几个挑战，从课程招生到学科内缺乏多样性。 为了解决这些问题，美国物理学会（APS）已经确定了一个独特的机会，以制定有意义的评估物理课程，这是几乎每个部门已经要求，同时实现他们的愿望，通过实施已知的最佳实践，以改善他们的学生的教育。美国物理学会领导层已经形成并正式负责一个全国公认的工作队的领导人在物理程序的评估和振兴，以创建一个指南的程序评估，审查和改进，并进行培训部门的审查员和部门主席在使用该指南。该指南将是一个操作文件，旨在立即有用的系主任或教职员工从事方案评估，审查或改进。本次研讨会将使APS奠定基础，以确保该指南可以实现全国性的影响。工作组将于2018年2月在马里兰州学院公园举行一次研讨会，以重新审视该指南的结构和内容的计划，根据到目前为止从写作中吸取的经验教训，根据需要调整计划，计划下一步，最后确定一项全面计划，让社区领导人参与采用和形成指导做法。 该讲习班的成果将包括向物理学界传播的具体书面章节，以及明确阐述的指南框架和各部门如何实施其做法。

In the United States there is a growing emphasis on accountability in higher education, and departments are increasingly asked to set and assess learning goals. At the same time, physics departments face several challenges spanning from programmatic enrollments through the lack of diversity within the discipline. To address these concerns, the American Physical Society (APS) has identified a unique opportunity to develop meaningful assessments of physics programs, which are already required of nearly every department, while fulfilling their desire to improve the education of their students by implementing known best practices. APS leadership has formed and formally charged a nationally recognized task force of leaders in physics program evaluation and revitalization to create a guide for programmatic assessment, review, and improvement, and to undertake the training of departmental reviewers and department chairs in using the guide. The guide will be an operational document designed to be immediately useful to a department chair or faculty member engaging in programmatic assessment, review, or improvement. This workshop will allow the APS to lay the groundwork to ensure that the guide can achieve national impact.A workshop for the task force to meet in person will be held in February 2018 in College Park, MD to revisit the plan for the structure and content of the guide, adjust the plan as needed based on what lessons have been learned from writing so far, plan the next steps, and finalize a comprehensive plan for engaging community leaders in adopting and shaping guide practices. Outcomes of this workshop will include specific written sections for dissemination to the physics community, and a clearly articulated framework of the guide and how departments can implement its practices.