Blog posts – Longwood Best Practice 2017: Designing with the End in Mind

Learning Improvement by Design (LID)

February 8, 2017 / Linda Townsend / Uncategorized

Learning Improvement by Design (LID): A Special Primer for Longwood University Presented by Dr. Keston Fulcher http://jmutube.cit.jmu.edu/users/fulchekh/presentations/LID_Longwood4_20170203_204213_12.zip.content/ Use of Results and Improvement are common terms in higher education. Unfortunately, most institutions struggle to connect assessment with learning improvement. This session is designed to clarify what improvement means and how to achieve it. Participants will distinguish […]

Sponsors and Support

February 7, 2017 / Linda Townsend / Uncategorized

Conference Support Sponsors Conference planning and coordination: Linda Townsend, Office of Assessment and Institutional Research Susie Ramsey, Office of Assessment and Institutional Research Technical support: John Hogge, Conferences & Scheduling Ed Morris, Conferences & Scheduling Muneeb Mobashar, Digital Education Collaborative Established in January 2012, the Longwood Assessment Mini-grant Program (LAMP) is supported […]

About

February 6, 2017 / muneeb / Uncategorized

Welcome to Longwood University’s 7th Annual Assessment Conference. Established by the Office of Assessment and Institutional Research in January 2011, Longwood’s annual Assessment Conference is a celebration of assessment achievements and promotes “Longwood best practice.” It engages faculty and staff in the dialogue of building a “culture of evidence.” The conference went virtual in 2013 […]

Writing Assessment and Intervention Program in Criminal Justice 402

February 6, 2017 / Linda Townsend / Uncategorized

Presented by Dr. Virginia Beard The purpose of this project and corresponding research was to institute a writing improvement program in the course: Criminal Justice 402: Criminological Theory. This program was developed during the winter-intersession of 2015-16 and piloted during the spring semester of 2016. The goal of this project was to have students not only […]

Using Professional Portfolios as an End-of-Program Assessment

February 6, 2017 / Linda Townsend / Uncategorized

Presented by Dr. Karla Collins and Dr. Audrey Church In an effort to offer a more practical culminating assignment at the conclusion of a program, many fields are turning to a professional portfolio as an alternative to or replacement for the traditional comprehensive exam or thesis. When the School Library Media program was updated in 2014 […]

Using Attendance Monitoring to Assist with Retention Efforts and Program Assessment

February 6, 2017 / Linda Townsend / Uncategorized

Presented by Crissy Sampier Longwood’s mission is to be an institution of higher learning dedicated to the development of citizen leaders. As such we need to monitor our students engagement and determine how these patterns can assist with increasing retention. According to the strategic plan, there are specific ways we can monitor progress: Student Progress […]

Understanding the Experiences of First Generation Students of Color Attending School at Rural Predominantly White Institutions of Higher Education

February 6, 2017 / Linda Townsend / Uncategorized

Presented by Dr. Quentin Alexander This presentation will disseminate preliminary findings from a qualitative study about the experiences of 15 first year first generation students of color attending school at a predominantly White teaching-focused university campus in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Participants disclosed their personal narratives to the primary investigator over two different […]

Success and Challenges of First-Generation College Students Integration into Longwood University: LSEM Effectiveness in College Transition

February 6, 2017 / Linda Townsend / Uncategorized

Presented by Dr. David Davino Data was collected on 10 first-generation college students (FGCS) enrolled in a Longwood Seminar (LSEM) class designed to assist FGCS with college transition and integration into the college environment. FGCS perceived strengths, barriers to success, and efficacy of LSEM in helping college transition was investigated. Results indicated that perceived knowledge […]

Southside Virginia Student Success Project- Using Qualitative Analysis to Support Academic Success

February 6, 2017 / Linda Townsend / Uncategorized

Presented by Joanna Baker and Joey Siverd The Southside Student Success Project sought to identify and interview current and former Longwood students from Southside Virginia who did not meet minimum standards for academic success in their first semester(s) at Longwood, resulting in either academic suspension or academic probation. We used qualitative analysis of the interview responses […]

Changing Statistics Projects to Better Relate to Students

February 6, 2017 / Linda Townsend / Uncategorized

Presented by Dr. Sharon Emerson-Stonnell As a General Education course, Math 171 requires students to perform a project. In the past students have often viewed this project as just another assignment. While the project is designed to reinforce skills learned in class, the students often do not see the relevance of the project but view it […]

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