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| New course | Graduate |
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| Course Prefix&Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| INT 655 | Assessment for Interpreter Educators | 3 - |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Asmt Interp Ed |
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Catalog Description: Students acquire knowledge and theory in assessment construction, methodology, and the use of data in formative and summative assessment design. Students research methods used for curricular and program assessment and evaluation. They examine, develop, and/or administer assessments, and interpret assessment results. Students explore and apply theories and approaches of assessment in teaching interpreting, to include the following: authentic assessment, diagnostics, feedback, and self-assessment. |
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Course Goal and Objectives: Upon completing this course, students will be able to: ¿ Design authentic assessments for translation and interpreting projects. ¿ Demonstrate constructive feedback techniques. ¿ Demonstrate abilities in diagnostic feedback given a sample of student work. ¿ Lead students to rely on self-assessment data for professional development. |
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Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): New Program |
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Faculty and facilities needed: No facilities needed. Year 1, no new faculty. Year 2, one more tenure line faculty needed. |
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Brief Course outline: ¿ Week 1: Purpose of assessment in the development of a professional ¿ Week 2: Developing your philosophy on assessment ¿ Week 3: Value of authentic assessments ¿ Week 4: Assessing what matters most ¿ Week 5: Designing assessments to promote accurate/fair grading as well as student learning ¿ Week 6: Rubrics as an assessment tool ¿ Week 7: Using peer assessments ¿ Week 8: Using data from assessments to shape future instruction ¿ Week 9: Using student data/feedback/grades to design future instruction, cont. ¿ Week 10: Sharing assessment tools/projects |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | ----------------- | Approved | November 06 2009 |
| 2 - Division | Elisa Maroney | Approved | December 01 2009 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Mickey Pardew | Approved | December 03 2009 |
| 5 - Graduate Committee | Mary Bucy | Approved | December 11 2009 |
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Katherine Schmidt | Approved | February 10 2010 |
| 7 - Dean | Hilda Rosselli | Approved | March 05 2010 |
| 8 - Provost | Kent Neely | Approved | March 10 2010 |
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