The Office of Assessment, in collaboration with the Center for Inquiry, is hosting a two-day workshop on using student-led focus groups to gather and make sense of assessment evidence.
Have you ever puzzled over how students interpreted questions on a survey? Would you like to know how they are experiencing a recent curricular change? Would it help you to understand how students are approaching key assignments that you are using to assess general education outcomes?
When we try to make sense of assessment evidence, we often overlook a critical source of information—our students. Conversations with students in focus groups can aid our efforts to understand our assessment evidence. Focus groups allow us to dig into the mechanisms behind the patterns we see in quantitative assessment data. They get at the “why” and “how” behind our data. Focus groups can also help us gather new evidence and answer questions with more detail and nuance than we might get from a survey.
Registration
The registration fee is $250 per person. This will include continental breakfast and lunch on Thursday and Friday, dinner on Thursday, as well as coffee, beverages, and snacks throughout each day. To register, go to our Focus Group Workshop webpage.
