The National Survey of Student Engagement was launched in 1999 with the following underlying goals: (a) focus conversations on undergraduate quality, (b) enhance institutional practice and improvement initiatives, (c) foster comparative and consortium activity, and (d) provide systematic national data on “effective educational practices”. Their survey is grounded in the following seven principles of good […]
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The spring census date, when we capture the official enrollment numbers, was February 15. Some spring census highlights are: UM Overall UM spring enrollment, including Early College, was up by 530 students (5%): 11,383 this year vs. 10,853 last year. Excluding Early College, enrollment was 3% above last year (10,961 this year vs. 10,626 last […]
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A fortunate advantage of the University of Maine System adopting Brightspace as our LMS has been access to new learning outcomes assessment tools. These tools allow instructors to align course and/or program learning outcomes with specific assignments, rubrics, quiz questions, portfolio artifacts and discussions. Using a learning outcomes assessment approach allows instructors to separate measures […]
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