P7 Stories from GULL Week Data: Critical Thinking & Reasoning Assessment Explained and Findings Unveiled

Presenters

Sarah Winger, University Analysis, Reporting and Assessment

Abstract

At Salisbury University we are lucky to have a way to collect evidence of our General Education Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) using valid and reliable assessments during GULL Week. One such assessment is the ETS HEIghten-Critical Thinking (H-CT) assessment, which helps us assess and evaluate the critical thinking of our students as it aligns with the Critical Thinking & Reasoning SLO. It is important to understand what the assessment instrument is designed to measure before the campus community can fully appreciate what that data says about our previous accomplishments and to appropriately plan for possible future improvements. In this session we will introduce the structure of the H-CT and share findings from analysis of the H-CT GULL Week data. Specifically, the H-CT has an overall scaled score as well as two scaled subscores, Analytic and Synthetic, where the former allows for comprehensive comparisons and interpretations and the two subscores allow stakeholders to target specific areas for investigation or targeted future efforts of improvement. We will also present findings from GULL Week, comparing H-CT data between categories of different student characteristics (e.g., class levels). Finally, we will share preliminary information, from a unique longitudinal study, with H-CT data from three fall administrations of the assessment during GULL Week: 2017, 2018, and 2019. We hope this presentation sparks interest for faculty and staff who want to learn more about student performance as it relates to our SLOs, or the assessment of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), in general and how these results can inform teaching and learning with respect to students' Critical Thinking & Reasoning ability in particular.

Pre-Recorded Session

Discussion

Join us for an active discussion on the Stories from GULL Week Data.