For Faculty

The resources linked in this "For Faculty" section of our website are intended to assist faculty in communicating the value of their classes and learning objectives to students, to make visible the student learning taking place within their classes, and to help us as an institution improve the quality and transparency of our offerings.

Within this page, you will find resources applicable for understanding student learning at each stage of your course, from building significant learning outcomes, to creating syllabi, designing assignments, and finally evaluating and grading student work. Office of Academic Affairs staff are available to collaborate with faculty throughout your work.

We partner with faculty to address the central question: as an Emerson alum, what skills and/or content knowledge should our students demonstrate and how are we ensuring they can do so?

If you are not sure where to start, "What Faculty Need to Know About Assessment," from the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, provides an overview of student learning assessment and the importance of faculty involvement in these processes.

The Office of Academic Assessment provides assistance planning, designing, and implementing academic assessment of student learning at the course, department/program, and institutional levels.

Course

We work with individual faculty members and offer:

• Consultations to discuss, design and/or revise student learning outcomes
• Consultations to discuss, design and/or revise course assignments
• Consultations to provide resources for redesigning objectives or assignments based on faculty members' analysis of student learning in their courses
• Survey design assistance for assessment of student learning
• Research assistance if you are seeking assessment resources not currently addressed on this site

Department/Program

• Working with the LEAP Fellows from each department, we assist departments as they plan and implement cyclical assessment of student work to demonstrate achievement of departmental learning outcomes
• We also offer feedback and assistance with curricular mapping of departmental objectives

Institutional

• The Office of Academic Assessment participates in the NECHE reaccreditation process by collecting, maintaining, and making available information about the College's assessment practices.

What we don't do:

• Evaluate faculty's teaching
• Review course evaluation data

Where to find us:

• The Office of Academic Assessment is located on the 4th floor of the Walker Building, next to the Instructional Technology Group. We are currently available on-campus on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and via Zoom during normal business hours.