Wayne State faculty and staff showcase

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Congratulations to our colleagues for their scholarly presentations and publications on program assessment:

Amy Cooper (Learning Communities) presented Learning Communities can be HIP: Co-curricular Assessment of High Impact Pratccies in LCs at Wayne State University on November 4, 2022.
In October 2022, Wayne State was well represented at the IUPUI Assessment Institute:
- Dr. Justine Gortney presented multiple co-authored projects for her teams:
  - with Sarah Agnihotri (Pharamcy), Faculty Maxed and Taxed? Solutions for Incorporation of Systems Data in Curricular Review in a Doctor of Pharmacy Program, on October 10, 2022.
  - with Dr. Brittany Stewart, Objective Structured Clinical Exams: Is Virtual Comparable to In-Person Performarnce in Pre-Experiential, Third-Year Pharmacy Students? on October 10, 2022.
  - with Mike Rudolph (Lincoln Memorial University), Jill Augustine (Marcer University College of Pharmacy), Correct or Incorrect? Objective Structured Clinical Exame (OSCE) Standard Setting and "Grading" Methodologies Utilized in Health Professions Education on October 11, 2022.
- Dr. Jennifer Hart (History) and Dr. Cathy Barrette (Office of the Provost) presented Gen Ed Assessment as a Pathway to Building a Culture of Assessment at the IUPUI Assessment Institute October 11, 2022.
Dr. R. Darin Ellis, Dr. Cathy Barrette, and Marlena Frontera presented Preparing the Assurance Argument: Improved Processes and Stakeholder Engagement at the Higher Learning Commission Annual Conference on April 4, 2022.
Dr. Cathy Barrette (Office of the Provost) and Dr. Jennifer Hart (History) presented Instructor Engagement with General Education SLO Data: Interpretation and Action Planning at the AALHE conference, June 8, 2022.
Erin Wiseman (Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts) and Emily Reetz (Political Science) presented Growing Together: A Collaborative Approach to Professional Growth at the MiACADA Conference, Wayne State University, May 20, 2022.
Dr. Nicole Varty (English) published A Question of Support: Assessing a Composition Learning Community for Student Learning and Academic Success in the Summer 2021 issue of Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning.
Drs. Francine Salinitri and Sheila Wilhelm (Pharmacy & Health Sciences) published Reliability and Validity of a Checklist to Evaluate Student Performance in a Problem-Based Learning Group in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education in 2021 with Drs. Alison Lobkovich (Harper University Hospital) and Brian Crabtree (Mercer University).
In September 2021, Dr. Timothy Bowman and students Amber Harrison and Katie Tapia-Lynch (School of Information Sciences) presented The Similarities and Differences of Vision and Mission Statements: A Comparison of ALA-Accredited LIS Programs and iSchools at the ALISE conference.
In May 2021, Dr. Cathy Barrette (Office of the Provost), Dr. Meihua Zhai, and Zhe Jiang (Office of Institutional Research and Analysis) presented Streamlined General Education Assessment Report Process Across Systems at the AIR Forum Annual Conference.
In October 2020, our Pharmacy division made a strong showing with three presentations at the IUPUI Assessment Institute, the longest-running and largest outcomes assessment conference in the US:
- Drs. Minakshi Lahiri and Justine Gortney presented Seeing through a Student-Pharmacist Lens: Longitudinal Student Focus Groups to Evaluate a New Curriculum Implementation
- Drs. Minakshi Lahiri and Pramodini Kale-Pradhan presented Assessing the Impact of Utilizing Multiple Active-Learning Strategies Longitudinally Across Three Years: Learner Perspectives and Performance from a Pharmacotherapy Course
- Drs. Minakshi Lahiri, Linda Jaber, and Dana El-Masri presented Assessment of Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Collaborative Learning Utilizing a Concept-Mapping Project within a Pharmacotherapy Course in Doctor-of-Pharmacy Curriculum
In October 2019, Wayne State was well represented at the IUPUI Assessment Institute:
- Dr. Justine Gortney presented Development and Implementation of a Capstone Course with OSCEs Prior to Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences in a Pharm.D. Program
- Dr. Cathy Barrette and Neva Nahan presented Making Assessment Plan Reviews Less Threatening and More Useful
- Drs. Elizabeth Corah-Hopkins and Asli Ã–zgün-Koca presented Designing a Systematic, Comprehensive, and Sustainable Assessment System
- Drs. Cathy Barrette and Jeff Pruchnic presented Engaging Faculty, Staff and Students in Developing Gen Ed Assessment on behalf of a larger team including Drs. Stefanie Baier, Jennifer Wareham, Laura Woodward, and Kelly Young
- Dr. Justine Gortney presented Across the Curricular Divide: Three Assessment Approaches to Students' Personal and Professional Development with Dr. Jill Augustine, Mercer University College of Pharmacy, and Dr. Jason Brunner, University of Colorado School of Pharmacy
In February 2019, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) published Dr. Stefanie Baier's article, Assessing learning communities based on program outcomes and the eight characteristics of high-impact practices, an invited piece based on her 2018 presentation at the IUPUI Assessment Institute.
In October 2018, WSU faculty and staff gave four presentations at the IUPUI Assessment Institute:
- Dr. Stefanie Baier presented Assessing Learning Communities Based on the Eight Key Elements of High-Impact Practices
- Dr. Stefanie Baier, Dr. Cathy Barrette, Amy Cooper, Mark Evely, and Heather Sandlin presented Taking the Pain Out of A**essment
- Dr. Justine S. Gortney, Dr. Jason Booza, Dr. Minakshi Lahiri, and Robert Reaves presented Drugs and Docs: A Tale of Two Professional Programs' Assessment of Students' Personal and Professional Development
- Drs. Minakshi Lahiri and Justine Gortney presented Assessing Perspectives of PharmD Students' Learning Experience of a Renewed-Curriculum Implementation Longitudinally Using Student Focus Groups
Dr. Jeff Pruchnic, Chris Susak, Dr. Jared Grogan, Sarah Primeau, Joe Torok, Dr. Thomas Trimble, Dr. Tanina Foster, and Dr. Ellen Barton (Department of English; Karmanos Cancer Institute) published Slouching Toward Sustainability: Mixed Methods in the Direct Assessment of Student Writing in The Journal of Writing Assessment in 2018.
Drs. Cathy Barrette, Brian Crabtree, Sara Maher, Wendy Matthews and Prof. Judith Moldenhauer presented What Assessment Leaders Do: From Peers to the Provost's Office at the 2017 IUPUI Assessment Institute.
Dr. Cathy Barrette (Director of Assessment; Associate Professor, Spanish) co-presented Conceptualizing Cultural Literacy through Program Assessment with Dr. Kate Paesani (Director, Center for Advanced Research in Language Acquisition, a National Foreign Language Resource Center) at the American Association of Applied Linguistics in Portland, OR in March 2017.
Dr. Kate Paesani (Associate Professor, French) published Redesigning and Introductory Language Program: A Backward Design Approach in L2 Journal in 2017.
Dr. Wendy Matthews (Assistant Professor, Music) presented Using Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning in All Music Classrooms at the International Society of Music Education in Glasgow, Scotland in July 2016.
Dr. Jazlin Ebenezer (Professor, Education) has published numerous studies, including the NSF-funded Engaging Students in Environmental Research Projects: Perceptions of Fluency with Innovative Technologies and Levels of Scientific Inquiry Abilities in 2011 in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching and Effects of an Intellectually Caring Model on Urban African American Alternative High School Students' Conceptual Change and Achievement in 2013 in Chemistry Education Research and Practice.
Dr. Jenny Lewis (Assistant Professor, Education) published two studies on program assessment in mathematics: Measuring the Mathematical Quality of Instruction in 2011 in the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education and Assessing Teachers' Mathematics Knowledge: What Knowledge Matters and What Evidence Counts? in the 2007 Handbook for Research on Mathematics Education.
Dr. Justine Gortney (Director of Assessment,Pharmacy) gave multiple program assessment-related presentations in 2014: The Utilization and Implementation of the Pharmacy Curriculum Outcomes Assessment (PCOA) in Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculums at U.S. Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy at the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy; and Is the PCOA Useful to Evaluate Coursework? A State College's Perspective at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting.
Dr. Justine Gortney (Director of Assessment,Pharmacy), Dr. Christopher Giuliano (Assistant Professor, Pharmacy) , Dr. Richard Slaughter (Associate Dean, Pharmacy), and Dr. Francine Salinitri (Assistant Professor, Pharmacy) presented Relationship between PCOA performance and course performance at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting in 2014.
Dr. Doreen Head (Interim Chair of the Department of Health Care Sciences) and Dr. Rosanne DiZazzo-Miller (Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy) presented NBCOT Pass Rate Strategies at an Urban University at the Occupational Therapy Education Summit.
Gayle Reynolds (WSU Director of the Student Service Center) presented Using CRM Data to Align Customer Service with Strategic Goals at the Annual Strategic Enrollment Management Conference.
Dr. Kate Paesani (Associate Professor of French) and her co-author wrote a chapter on assessment titled Reconsidering goals, objectives, and assessments from a multiliteracies perspective in their 2015 book: K. Paesani, H. W. Allen, & B. Dupuy, A multiliteracies framework for collegiate foreign language teaching (pp. 49-73). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.