This page presents the materials and instructions for the UF Quest 1 and 2 faculty for the assessment of student learning outcome achievement in UF Quest 1 and 2.
The Faculty Role in the Institutional Assessment of UF Quest
For the Faculty Guide and Rubrics, click here: UF Quest 1 and 2 Faculty Guide and Rubrics
The Faculty Orientation PowerPoint, and the Quest Assessment Setup Guide are included here:
The faculty are essential to the success of UF Quest and play a primary role in the university's assessment of its success as an institutional program. This list outlines the faculty role in the assessment process.
About the process
- The number of students to be assessed. Institutional Research staff will select a random sample of 20% of students in each UF Quest 1 section to include in the assessment. Faculty only assess these students for institutional assessment purposes, but may, however, include other students if they wish to do so.
- Existing faculty-developed rubrics. The UF Quest assessment does not require faculty to substitute or replace their existing rubrics. The faculty-developed rubrics used to measure remain exactly as you have developed them. The UF Quest rubrics are to be applied in addition to your existing rubrics for 20% of your students.
- Assignment selection. You will select at least one existing assignment to use for the assessment. The UF Quest Assessment Task Force developed rubrics for five types of assignments: papers, presentations, projects, performances/productions, and standalone reflections. (The rubrics for papers, presentations, projects, performances/productions include a criterion for reflection).
- The assessment criteria. Each UF Quest rubric has five criteria for institutional assessment.
Canvas: Technology-facilitated Data Collection
Instructional designers are assigned to each faculty member to assist with the technological setup and data collection in Canvas. Here is how that process works.
- The Instructional Designer will enter the criteria at the bottom of the faculty member's existing rubric and set up this data to be recorded in Canvas (Scoring the Quest SLO rubrics does not affect students' grades).
- Faculty assess the institutional criteria at the same time they grade the assignment (in Speed Grader, if that tool is used). Faculty rate the UF Quest rubric criteria at one of four levels of achievement described in each rubric. The ratings are not associated with the student’s grade.
- Data collection. The levels of achievement that faculty assign will load automatically into Canvas. Once you have completed the assessment, we will go into Canvas and collect the ratings you have assigned.
Summary
To summarize, here is what Quest 1 and 2 faculty will do:
- Review the guide and the rubrics.
- Select one or more assignments to use for the Quest 1 assessment.
- Work with the instructional designer who will set up the rubrics in Canvas for you.
- Apply the rubrics to the assignments submitted by the students in your 20% sample.
- When you submit your ratings, they will automatically load into Canvas.
- Provide feedback on the process so that we can modify and improve.