Workshops
Below is a list of available workshops offered by the Office of Research and Assessment. If units or departments are interested in learning more about assessment they are welcome to set up a workshop for their area during a staff meeting or as an outside workshop. Pick from the list provided below or contact us with additional topics:
- Assessment Basics: Common vocabulary, stages of planning and designing an assessment project
- Developing Assessable Outcomes: Writing learning, program or operation outcomes and how that leads to assessing the outcomes.
- The Wide World Of Data Collection: Go beyond surveys and focus groups to learn about data collection methods that can help you learn more about your students, services and processes.
- Planning Assessments: Project planning and design, including considering factors such as validity and reliability, timing, samples, and all other logistics.
- Basic Quantitative Analysis: Learn the basics of working with statistics and numbers in order to analyze data.
- Advanced Quantitative Analysis: Move beyond percents and averages to more complex statistical relationships. This session will explain the theory and process behind complex quantitative analysis. A course in SPSS or SAS as well as statistics is recommended in order to understand the “how to” process of completing the analysis.
- Basic Qualitative Analysis: Learn how to work with qualitative data (i.e. focus group notes, open-ended questions from surveys) and code into common themes, as well as turn into numbers if needed for a report.
- Survey Development: Developing surveys from start to finish.
- Using Survey Monkey: Having trouble getting started with Survey Monkey? We can give you a tutorial that will make you a pro in no time.
- Using Excel to Analyze Data: Coupled with basic quantitative analysis, this session will help you learn the “how to” of completing basic level analysis on Microsoft Excel.
- Writing Up Your Results: How to effectively report out results of your assessment in order to reach various audiences.
- Individual Assessment Consulting: If you’re working on a project and don’t know where to go next, we offer individual consulting in order to get you to the next step.
For more information about each of these workshops, please contact the Office of Research and Assessment.