Assessment and Research Studies
University of California, Irvine
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Departmental Assessment Grant Program
The Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education established the Departmental Assessment Grant Program in 2008 to support faculty-based activities to identify and assess student learning in undergraduate majors and in general education. The program provides one-time funding of up to $10,000 for a Senate faculty member to either guide a department toward establishing an assessment program for an undergraduate major or develop an assessment program for one of the general education learning outcomes. All faculty project directors commit to continuing the assessment initiative after the funding period. The most recent call for proposals can be found here.
The program began in 2008 and has now supported three cohorts of faculty:
Spring 2008: Victoria Bernal (Anthropology), Susan Jarratt (Comparative Literature), Donna Schuele (Criminology, Law, & Society), Vinayak Chaturvedi (History), David Kay (Informatics), Sarah Frey (Mathematics), and Catherine Loudon (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology). Their project proposal abstracts can be found here.
Fall 2008: Alison Holman (Nursing Science), Sharon Stern (Public Health), Keith Moore (Earth System Science), Susan King (Chemistry), Joanne Frattaroli (Psychology and Social Behavior). Their project proposal abstracts can be found here.
Spring 2009: Jonathan Alexander (English/Division of Undergraduate Education), Deborah Avant (Political Science), David Brownstone (Economics), Ken Chew (Planning, Policy, and Design), and David Pan (German). Their project proposal abstracts can be found here.
At the end of each year, the program organizes a colloquy where all faculty, regardless of their familiarity with assessment, can hear from the program's faculty directors about assessment projects that build on what departments already do to improve student learning, implementing effective assessment that does not burden faculty, and initiating assessment in the research university context. This year's colloquy will be held in May; more information to come.
Last Updated: 11/3/2009