Digging into Student Learning Data: Creating Measured Curricular Change √ § Ͼ

What options do educators have when learning data calls for change? In this session, we will explore how UMBC faculty apply innovative closing-the-loop interventions to meet students’ learning needs and center them in continuous improvement next steps. For example, when students in the first year of the Community Leadership Program demonstrated the need for practical skills to support their leadership learning, faculty invented a short-term, one-credit course focused on a specific skill, and developed a series of skills courses that closed the learning gaps. Recently, in a Community Leadership course on Emergent Strategy, students undertook an assessment of the program and then drew on their findings to develop a productive Ecosystem Mapping workshop session for faculty members. In Aging Studies, rubric data showed that students struggled with core critical analysis skills: to close the loop, faculty adapted course scaffolding, created additional opportunities to practice, and analyzed the results in the final internship site evaluations. Sally Scott and Maryam Najafi from Community Leadership and Louise Murray from the Erickson School for Aging Studies will share these efforts to close the loop and improve student learning.