{"id":63937,"date":"2017-08-21T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=63937"},"modified":"2019-05-23T08:36:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T18:36:02","slug":"curricular-improvement-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/21\/curricular-improvement-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit showcases evidence-based improvements to M\u0101noa curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_63965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63965\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/manoa-learning-assessment-projects.jpg\" alt=\"presentation sheets displayed on a wall\" width=\"676\" height=\"291\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/manoa-learning-assessment-projects.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/manoa-learning-assessment-projects-260x112.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assessment for Curricular Improvement Poster Exhibit. Photo credit: Colin Macdonald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Learning assessment projects are featured in the latest exhibit at Hamilton Library on the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> M\u0101noa<\/a> campus through September 30. The poster display is located on the wall in the first floor lobby. The display of six posters from the campus&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoa.hawaii.edu\/assessment\/workshops\/poster2017\/poster2017.htm\">Assessment for Curricular Improvement Poster Exhibit<\/a><\/em> showcases how programs improve teaching and learning by using information from learning assessment projects.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/manoa-learning-assessment-projects-2.jpg\" alt=\"more presentation sheets displayed on a wall\" width=\"676\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-63977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/manoa-learning-assessment-projects-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/manoa-learning-assessment-projects-2-260x35.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The poster display includes a wide range of projects and programs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Amy Lower<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/departments\/csd\/\">Communication Sciences and Disorders<\/a><br \/>\nLower explains how the faculty ensured students had sufficient learning opportunities with the use of a weighted curriculum map (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MnntupCIbgA&#038;feature=youtu.be\">see the 3-minute video<\/a>). Lower&#8217;s poster won the &ldquo;Best Faculty Engagement Strategies&rdquo; Award.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mee-Jeong Park<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/eall\/\">East Asian Languages and Literatures<\/a><br \/>\nIn her poster, <em>Merging graduate degree programs with the program assessment tool set<\/em>, Park shows how faculty used assessment tools to merge programs and generate common learning expectations and an effective curriculum structure for students. Park&#8217;s poster also won the &ldquo;Best Faculty Engagement Strategies&rdquo; Award.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Guidry<\/strong> and <strong>Tiffany Tsang<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/oceanography\/GES\/\">Global Environmental Science<\/a><br \/>\nGuidry and Tsang developed various strategies, including offering research courses early and more frequently, to improve students&#8217; retention and engagement in the Global Environmental Science Program. They won the &ldquo;Best Use of Results&rdquo; Award.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jennifer Winter<\/strong> and <strong>Wendi Vincent<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/gened\/\">General Education<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/oavcue\/institutional-learning-objectives\/\">Undergraduate Education Institutional Learning Objectives<\/a><br \/>\nWinter and Vincent provide examples of campus-wide learning assessment activities. Winter and colleagues from the Institutional Learning Objectives Implementation Committee explain the learning objectives for all undergraduate students, recent assessment results, and the ways the committee has used results (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mB_rpcWqNyg&#038;feature=youtu.be\">see the 3-minute video<\/a>). Vincent describes a faculty-friendly option to assess student learning gains in general education using student perceptions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yao Hill<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/assessment\/\">Assessment Office<\/a><br \/>\nThe Assessment Office poster summarizes degree programs&#8217; efforts at M\u0101noa: more than 75 percent of programs used learning assessment tools for program improvement in the last five years. Hill&#8217;s poster has specific examples of improvement that benefit the faculty and students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wide range of learning assessment projects are featured in the latest exhibit at Hamilton Library on the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[661,598,128,9],"class_list":["post-63937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-communications","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-manoa-library","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63937"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76735,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63937\/revisions\/76735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}