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Welcome to the University of Rhode Island Office of Student Learning, Outcomes Assessment, and Accreditation (SLOAA) home page. SLOAA's mission is to promote student success and achievement through greater accountability for student learning, and support a cycle of outcomes assessment and continuous program improvement.

This web site provides outcomes assessment information developed at URI, as well as nationally and internationally. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail us.

 

Current Assessment Activities

Information Literacy Rubric Project Luncheon (1/17/12):

Professors Mary MacDonald and Jim Kinnie of the University Library sponsored a luncheon at the Alumni Center for faculty who piloted the Information Literacy rubric on an assignment in their fall 2011 courses (funding provided by the Office of the Provost and SLOAA through a Davis Educational Grant). The group discussed the overall results of the pilot, and offered suggestions for minor modifications to the rubric, which should prove beneficial when it is applied to assignments in a wider range of courses, spring 2012. The Rubric Project has a number of purposes: to assess whether students have acquired Information Literacy skills, to examine the types of assignments that scaffold students' achievement of this outcome, and to refine a rubric to be used in part or whole by the entire campus community.  The goal is to encourage and support the continued development of information literacy skills within and across disciplines.

 

Writing & Rhetoric Assessment Day (12/2/11):

The department of Writing & Rhetoric hosted their Triennial General Education Assessment Day with support provided by the Davis Foundation and SLOAA.  More than 25 faculty and graduate students met in Galanti Lounge for an all-day workshop to examine student work. The event focused on the evaluation of hundreds of samples of student reflective essays from the General Education writing courses using common rubrics. (more details)

 

2011-2012 Assessment Reporting Update: Undergraduate and First Professional Degree programs are now conducting their third round of assessment work and reporting will conclude in March, 2012. Reporting forms and expectations were provided to individual programs and are available online.  SLOAA, in conjunction with the Learning Outcomes Oversight Committee (LOOC), will review assessment reports and provide feedback.