NSU's Quality Enhancement Plan April 2017

30 | NSU QEP Assessment Plan The QEP Marketing Committee recommended QEP events, including a QEP kick-off event and a Fridays with the Fellows event (both live on all campuses and online). After the initial calendar year (2017), the QEP Marketing Committee will continue to market the strategies and services available at the NSU Write from the Start Writing and Communication Center. In order to do so, the committee intends to utilize various websites, SharkBytes, SharkFins, SharkTube, the Journey Wall, mass emails, cork boards, and The Current (student newspaper), in addition to including information about enhancing writing during orientation for all students (undergraduate, graduate, and first-professional). Information about writing services through the NSU Write from the Start Writing and Communication Center will continue to be provided to faculty members through department chairs and deans. VIII. ASSESSMENT PLAN NSU’s QEP is intended to enhance student writing across the curriculum, with a special emphasis on writing in the disciplines. The overall plan will include focusing on the development of writing strategies that are designed to give students practice with the language conventions of a discipline, as well as with specific formats typical of a given discipline. Calling on best practices in the field, the strategies to help facilitate this process will include the expansion of the NSU Write from the Start Writing and Communication Center, employment of writing fellows to assist faculty members in providing constructive feedback in designated writing-embedded courses, development and implementation of a workshop series focusing on graduate student writing, development and implementation of a series of faculty-support workshops aimed at helping faculty members learn the most effective ways to provide feedback to develop writing skills, and development of a series of online writing resources aimed at providing assistance to students at a distance in both synchronous and asynchronous formats. The purpose of the assessment process is to measure the degree to which the QEP is achieving its goals. Results obtained from a variety of assessment instruments will be used to evaluate the success of the QEP’s implementation and inform decision-making should changes need to be made. The assessment plan details the processes for evaluating the extent to which student writing has been affected by the myriad QEP strategies detailed throughout the proposal. The plan contains relevant direct and indirect measures of student learning and measures outcomes throughout the entire implementation of the QEP. Implementation of Assessment Software In order to effectively collect assessment data for the QEP, NSU will purchase the software solution LiveText. LiveText develops and offers campus-wide applications for assessment of student learning achievement and associated data reporting. As a byproduct of these activities, NSU will have the enhanced capacity to report and demonstrate progress on planning, teaching, and learning associated with the QEP strategies.