{"id":10266,"date":"2021-04-14T16:10:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl-draft\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2021-04-15T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T19:23:26","slug":"types-of-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/types-of-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Direct <\/strong>sources of evidence must be used in program assessment whereby actual student work or performances is evaluated using a standardized method or rubric. Assessment using student work provides information about a level of achievement of an outcome(s) in a program.  Direct measures are imperative for program assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indirect <\/strong>sources of evidence provide information about a program through means other than looking at actual student work and can be helpful in quickly providing information which indicates something about a program or an outcome. Indirect measures are an option in program assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examples of Direct Evidence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Archival records<\/li>
  • Behavioral observations of students performing a task<\/li>
  • Brownbag presentation to the program or department<\/li>
  • Competence interviews<\/li>
  • Comprehensive examinations<\/li>
  • Conference presentations<\/li>
  • Culminating project (capstone projects, senior theses, senior exhibits, senior dance performance)<\/li>
  • Embedded assignments, course activities, tests\/quizzes<\/li>
  • Employer\/supervisor direct evaluations of student performance<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    • External examiner<\/li>
    • Exam essay questions<\/li>
    • IRB or IUCAC approval of research<\/li>
    • Licensing and professional examinations<\/li>
    • Locally developed examinations<\/li>
    • Oral defense of a thesis\/dissertation<\/li>
    • Oral examinations\/presentations<\/li>
    • Peer-reviewed journal articles submitted for publications<\/li>
    • Performance appraisals<\/li>
    • Portfolios or e-portfolios<\/li>
    • Poster or paper presentations at conferences<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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      • Practica and internships<\/li>
      • Pre-test\/Post-test evaluations<\/li>
      • Projects<\/li>
      • Published examinations (commerial, norm-references, standardized)<\/li>
      • Scoring rubrics<\/li>
      • Simulations<\/li>
      • Student publications<\/li>
      • Teaching evaluations for graduate teaching assistants<\/li>
      • Thesis\/Dissertation proposal draft<\/li>
      • Thesis\/Dissertation defense draft<\/li>
      • Videotape or audiotape evaluations<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

        Examples of Indirect Evidence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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        • Alumni surveys<\/li>
        • Course evaluations<\/li>
        • Employer or supervisor evaluations*<\/li>
        • Enrollment in higher degree programs<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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          • Focus groups<\/li>
          • Institutional\/program research data<\/li>
          • Job placement<\/li>
          • One-on-one interviews<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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            • Reflections*<\/li>
            • Student surveys<\/li>
            • Syllabi analysis<\/li>
            • Transcript analysis<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Assessment relies of direct evidence and can benefit from indirect evidence. What are those two types and where can you find them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4042,"featured_media":10299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[246,179],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assessment","tag-evidence","tag-prog-assessment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10302,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}