Sorry.

Susan Lorde Martin
Cypres Family Distinguished Professor of Legal Studies in Business
Director, Center for Teaching & Scholarly Excellence
208 Weller Hall
134 Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York 11549
516 463-5327
(fax) 516 795-3931
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Martin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: Assessment


> Hi Fran,
> Happy New Year.
> Funny you should ask!  I was just preparing a contract to send to Peggy
> Maki
> (Is she the one who asked?) who will be doing a day-long program on
> outcome
> assessment at Hofstra in March.  What I asked her to discuss at the
> keynote
> for faculty is using assessment to enhance teaching and
> discipline-specific
> assessment tools.  The latter grows out of the reluctance of certain
> depts.,
> generally in the humanities, to do any assessment b/c they can visualize
> only things like alum career surveys that would show their graduates
> either
> w/o jobs or in poorly paying ones.
>   In the business school, we of course are delighted to use alum surveys.
> It's easily quantifiable and reportable.  We also do graduation surveys
> and
> exit interviews.  We have not used any comparative testing instruments in
> legal studies classes.
>  Are you planning on going to the NEALSB meeting at the Sagamore?  Steve
> Salbu said he might go.
>   Let me know if you need any help in SF.
>
> Susan
>
> Susan Lorde Martin
> Cypres Family Distinguished Professor of Legal Studies in Business
> Director, Center for Teaching & Scholarly Excellence
> 208 Weller Hall
> 134 Hofstra University
> Hempstead, New York 11549
> 516 463-5327
> (fax) 516 795-3931
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fran Zollers" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:55 PM
> Subject: Assessment
>
>
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> I am writing some text for an assessment book being put out by AACSB
>> and some other group I can't remember. One of the authors went out on a
>> listserve I am on and asked for discipline-specific examples of
>> assessment. She mentioned pretty much every discipline but ours, so I
>> wrote back and told her what we were doing and that she should include
>> it. So here I am writing the text.
>>
>> I am writing about our national assessment instrument, but I also want
>> to include assessment activities that our members are doing on their own
>> campuses. By this I mean law assessment activities. I have Nancy White's
>> description of the assessment plan for the law major at Central
>> Michigan. Are there others I should be including? If so, please send me
>> a description ASAP, along with your experience so far. For example, what
>> are you finding? Are you closing the loop by using the information you
>> are generating? What happens when students do not meet standards as
>> defined by the assessment instrument? And so on.
>>
>> Your information would be most appreciated. Please write me privately
>> at [log in to unmask] I know you are all trying to get your semesters
>> started, but I need this pretty much immediately.
>>
>> As always, thanks for the help.
>>
>> Fran Zollers