ABSTRACT

Most universities and, thus, individual departments are under pressure from accrediting agencies to develop and implement assessment plans to assess student learning. During the minicourse pairs (or larger groups) of members of a mathematical sciences department will develop, in workshop format, a proposed departmental mission statement and the skeleton of its individualized assessment plan. Sample assessment programs (developed by teams of mathematics faculty under the auspices of the MAA's NSF-funded assessment project, Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics) will be discussed and participants will share ideas with groups from similar departments to develop their own program.