NSU's Quality Enhancement Plan April 2017

32 | NSU QEP Assessment Plan that led a student to seek writing help (e.g., faculty member referral or self-referral). It is expected that the referrals from faculty members will increase as a result of the increased emphasis and development of the NSU Write from the Start Writing and Communication Center services. Overall, preimplementation response data for each question will be compared with postimplementation response data. In addition, NSU Write from the Start Writing and Communication Center usage data for each year of the QEP will be compared to usage data for previous years, including years prior to the opening of the new center space. Usage over time (monthly and/or weekly) will also be compared, to see whether changes are consistent or vary during the year. Writing Fellows Assigned to Courses The writing fellows will be assessed through surveys distributed to students and faculty members in the writing-embedded courses that are served by fellows. Student questions will focus on the usefulness/helpfulness of the writing fellows. Faculty members will be asked similar questions, assessing their perceptions of the value of adding writing fellows to their courses in terms of enhancing student learning. Since the writing fellows program has not been formally implemented university-wide at the undergraduate level, no pre- QEP data exists for comparison. Questions will be asked on the faculty survey regarding the development of student writing skills pre- and postimplementation to gain some understanding as to the feelings faculty members have about the addition of the fellows. Graduate Student Writing Workshops In addition to collecting attendance data, the graduate student writing workshops will include a pre-posttest assessment to examine knowledge gains of participants. Prior to each workshop, a 3–5 question assessment will be administered by the facilitator of the workshop. Each workshop assessment will be unique, measuring only the skills that will be addressed in the corresponding workshop. This assessment strategy will allow empirical feedback for the writing center staff to help inform how well the objectives for each workshop session are being met. The instrument will also collect reflections from participants relative to ways in which attendees will utilize newly learned writing skills. Faculty Workshops and Events Briefly, faculty members participating in the workshops and events, face-to-face and online, will learn about best practices in the teaching and assessing of writing. Faculty member participation will be assessed through the collection of descriptive data. The NSU Write from the Start Writing and Communication Center will collect data for both attendance at the live sessions provided on campus and the synchronous and asynchronous workshop sessions delivered online. These data will track total number of faculty members attending each workshop and event and an unduplicated count of unique faculty member attendance. Data will be disaggregated for the online and face-to-face services. Also, surveys for the faculty member workshop participants will be conducted immediately after the workshop is completed, as well as at the end of the semester within which the workshop was offered. The faculty member surveys will be designed to assess the extent to which the workshops achieved their objectives. Focus groups of participants will be held at least one semester after the faculty members complete the workshops to discuss their impact on the faculty members’ teaching and their students’ learning. Developers