The Symposium on Learning Outcomes Assessment: A Practical Guide was held on April 12 & 13 at the Delta Chelsea hotel in Toronto. It was designed to bring further clarity to the process of defining the learning outcomes of university courses and programs for our students.
Participants and speakers included international and local university and college faculty, deans, senior administrators and others involved in assessment of learning outcomes. The Symposium featured plenary sessions and hands-on working sessions for participants to share expertise and develop skills in creating learning outcomes and measuring their achievement.
The Symposium was co-sponsored by:
- Council of Ontario Universities
- Ontario College Quality Assurance Service
- Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance
- Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario
Please see the program for more information about the event.
Speaker Presentations
Day 1 - April 12, 2012
| Program Outcomes – The Dawning of a New Era for Higher Education |
| Chair: Gary Boire, Provost & Vice President Academic, Trent University |
| Speaker: Warren Stiver, Professor and NSERC Chair in Design Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Guelph |
| Speaker: Peter Wolf, Director, Centre for Open Learning and Educational Support, University of Guelph |
| Presentation - Program Outcomes: The dawning of a new era for higher education |
| Learning Outcomes and Effective Teaching |
| Chair: Gregory Finn, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President Academic, Brock University |
| Speaker: Richard S. Ascough, Associate Professor, School of Religion, Queen’s University |
| Presentation - Learning Outcomes & Effective Teaching |
| The Collegiate Learning Assessment: Aligning Teaching, Learning, and Assessment |
| Chair: Alan Harrison, Provost and Vice-Principal Academic, Queen’s University |
| Speaker: Chris Jackson, Director of Business Development |
| Speaker: Julie Patterson, Measurement Scientist, Council for Aid to Education, New York, NY |
| Presentation: Aligning Teaching, Learning and the Assessment: The CLA |
Resource: Collegiate Learning Assessment website
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| Tuning: Identifying and Measuring Sector-Based Learning Outcomes in Ontario |
| Chair: Anthony Clarke, Assistant Vice-President (Program Quality Assurance), University of Guelph |
| Speaker: Brian Frank, Director (Program Development), Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Queen’s University |
| Speaker: Mary Catharine Lennon, Senior Research Analyst, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario |
| Speaker: Rhonda Lenton, Vice-Provost Academic, York University |
| Speaker: Joy Warkentin, Chair, Management Board, Ontario College Quality Assurance Service |
| Presentation: Tuning: Identifying and Measuring Sector-Based Learning Outcomes in Ontario |
Day 2 - April 13, 2012
| Measuring Student Learning for Policy and Planning |
| Chair: George Kuh, Director, National Institute Learning Outcomes Assessment, Champaign, IL |
| Speaker: Hamish Coates, Foundation Director of Higher Education Research at the Australian Council for Higher Education Research (ACER), Program Director with LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management, University of Melbourne |
| Presentation: Measuring Student Learning for Policy and Planning |
| The Proof is in the Portfolio |
| Chair: Sam Scully, Chair, Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance |
| Speaker: Terrel Rhodes, Vice-President for Quality, Curriculum and Assessment, American Association of Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC |
| Presentation: Placing Student Work at the Center of Learning |