COF TEACHING & LEARNING CONFERENCE
Effective Assessment: Tools for the Classroom and Beyond
October 22 and 23, 2009
Tentative Conference Program
Thursday, October 22
4:00 Welcome
4:15 Assessment-Based Course Development –Using Educational Research
Findings as a Guide, Fred. Garafalo, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
5:00 Panel: Multidisciplinary Assessment of Writing
6:00 Reception
Friday, October 23
8:30 Coffee
8:45 Welcome
9:00 Keynote: Using Assessment to Help Our Students Succeed: the
Remarkable Benefits of Asking Students Some Simple Questions, Richard
Light, Harvard University
10:30 Concurrent Sessions (select 1 of 4)
a. Richard Light, Conversation and workshop with Faculty
b. What does NEASC really expect when it comes to assessment?
- Pat O’Brien, Deputy Director of the Commission on Higher Education, NEASC
c. Assessment of non-traditional programs and students-
Sarah K. Volkman and Gail Matthews-DeNatale
d. Technology as Tools for Assessment
11:45 Approaches to Programmatic Assessment – Panel
12:15 Working Lunch: (Curricular Maps by discipline)
Physical, Life and Health Sciences
Business and Management
Behavioral Sciences
Social Sciences
Humanities
Arts and Design
Engineering and Technology
K-12 Education
1:30 Reports and Wrap-up
Deadline for registration is Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Registration Fee: No charge to COF community
Non COF payable at registration
Non-member:
Thursday only $60
Friday only: $150
Both days: $200
Thank you to our corporate sponsors:
Wimba, Elluminate, Atrion and Blackboard
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