S8B Stories from GULL Week Data: Inclusion & Diversity and Intercultural Competence Assessment Explained and Findings Unveiled

Presenters

Sarah Winger, University Analysis, Reporting & Assessment (UARA)

Abstract

At Salisbury University we are lucky to have a way to collect evidence of our General Education (GenEd) Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) using valid and reliable assessments during GULL Week. One such assessment is the ETS HEIghten-Intercultural Competency & Diversity (H-ICD) assessment, which helps us assess and evaluate, which aligns with the Inclusion & Diversity as well as the Intercultural Competency GenEd SLOs. 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, particularly with the upcoming planning and implementation of the new GenEd model. In this session we will introduce the structure of the H-ICD and share findings from analysis of the H-ICD GULL Week data. Specifically, the H-ICD has two scaled scores as well as eight scaled subscores, where the two scaled scores allow for comprehensive comparisons and interpretations and the eight 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-ICD data between categories of different student characteristics (e.g., class levels). 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’ Inclusion & Diversity as well as Intercultural Competence in particular.

Resources

Presentation slides with notes from Dr. Winger that help provide a "transcript" of what is discussed in the video.