January 2022 Newsletter

Assessment Mini-Grant Awardees

Below is a brief description of each awardee’s assessment project.  Jane Puhlman, Communication Sciences and Disorders:  CSD will be reorganizing their program assessment process and exploring the use of Brightspace for collecting and managing program assessment data. Lynn Atkins, School of Biology and Ecology: SBE will be developing curriculum maps for each of the three disciplines […]

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Program Assessment Reports

All academic programs are in an iterative process of assessing their program learning outcomes. An official assessment report is due for each program every three years. This report includes data on all program learning outcomes and a 3-year assessment summary report. Annual reports are also expected from each program. These include any updated assessment data […]

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Student Evaluations of Teaching Update

Students in full-length semester courses this spring will receive their initial invitation to do their evaluations on Monday, April 18. The evaluations are open until the last day of classes (Apr 29). Instructors will also receive email instructions on how to monitor their response rates on April 18. If feasible, we recommend setting aside time […]

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Interactive Enrollment Dashboard

Our interactive data dashboards are in the process of being updated to a new, user-friendly format, with additional filters and content. The first update has now been published to our website to include fall 2021 enrollment data for UMaine and UMaine Machias. The dashboard is interactive with enrollment data for UMaine and UMaine Machias for […]

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OIRA Website Updates

The OIRA website contains a wealth of publicly available data reports. Most of our reports have been updated to include fall 2021 data, and we have begun incorporating data for our regional campus, UMaine Machias, into our reports.  UMaine Machias data is now available in our Fall 21′ UMaine At-A-Glance report, Enrollment Headcount report, UMaine […]

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Assessment Workshops

Our fall assessment workshop series came to a close in November with the session Using Assessment Data for Curriculum Conversations in which we had two faculty panelists join us to discuss their experiences. We would like to thank Amanda Albright Olsen from Earth and Climate Sciences and Susan Sullivan from the School of Food and […]

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Power BI Resources

As we expand our interactive dashboard offerings, both public and internal, we will continue to add resources to our help page: Power BI Help. Please contact Lisa Applegate (lisa.applegate@maine.edu) if you have questions not addressed on the help page.

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