Enhancing the Relevance and Effectiveness of Course, Program and Department Evaluation: Improving the Utility and Usability of the Student Assessment of Learning Gains Site

评估/研究（99）该项目的重点是为学生学习成绩评估（SALG）课程、系和评估员网站的新手和专家用户开发互动式帮助和支持系统。 SALG是一种基于网络的课程评估工具，侧重于学生对课程设计和教学方法如何有效帮助他们获得学习收益的评估。扩展的帮助和支持系统增加了SALG网站的可用性，用于课程，计划和部门评估，并增强了用户相互交互的能力和方式。 SALG网站的改进包括三种类型的增强。 首先，用户支持功能通过包含交互式教程和“提示和策略”部分，扩展了课程、系和评估员网站上的帮助部分。 这些部分包括关于战略和最佳实践的建议，以及关于SALG的白皮书/文章档案，以及其他人使用SALG的文章链接。 一个互动论坛为用户提供了一个平台，使他们能够立即获得实际帮助，并就有关学习评估的广泛问题进行讨论。 第二，部门网站包含额外的功能，以帮助用户利用网站的功能，通过纳入额外的控制和功能，以帮助部门一级的评价。 第三，除了使用SALG支持程序评估的增加的功能之外，评估器站点是SALG类仪器的存储库（例如，本科生研究学生自我评估（URSSA）工具），并包括一个互动论坛，用于共享信息，资源和评估，评价和学生学习的专业知识。

Assessment/Research (99)The project focuses on the development of interactive help and support systems for novice and expert users of the Student Assessment of their Learning Gains (SALG) course, department, and evaluator websites. The SALG is a web-based, course-evaluation instrument that focuses on students' assessments of how effectively course-design and teaching methods help them make learning gains. The expanded help and support systems increase the usability of the SALG sites for course, program, and departmental evaluation and enhance the power and number of ways that users have to interact with each other. Improvements to the SALG websites include three types of enhancements. First, the user-support functions expand the help sections on course, department, and evaluator sites by the inclusion of interactive tutorials and "Tips and Tactics" sections. These sections consist of advice about strategies and best practices and an archive of white-papers/articles on the SALG and links to articles on the use of SALG by others. An interactive forum provides a platform for users to access immediate practical help and to engage in discussions on broad issues concerning the assessment of learning. Second, the department site contains additional functions to assist users in exploiting the capabilities of the site by incorporating additional controls and features to assist in departmental level evaluation. Third, in addition to increased functionality to support program evaluation using the SALG, the evaluator site is a repository for SALG-like instruments (e.g., the Undergraduate Research Student Self-Assessment (URSSA) instrument) and includes an interactive forum for sharing information, resources, and expertise on assessment, evaluation, and student learning.