{"id":6855,"date":"2021-03-10T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl-draft\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:19:50","slug":"assessment-innovation-mini-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/assessment-innovation-mini-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment Innovation Mini-Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Competitive funding is available to support faculty efforts to advance assessment innovation within a program\/department (up to $1,000 per proposal). Funds can be used for professional development, summer re-contracting, as matching funds, and\/or for hourly graduate student support.&nbsp;Faculty are encouraged to consider planning for the infusion of equitable teaching, learning and assessment practices throughout the curriculum to impact all students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funding opportunity is ongoing. For more details, and to learn about whether your assessment project can be considered for funding, please email <a href=\"mailto:assess@uri.edu\">assess@uri.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2023\/2024 Assessment Innovation Mini-Grants: <em>Program Assessment using Brightspace: Investigating Options<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This mini-grant program, sponsored by ATL Assessment Office in collaboration with the ITS Teaching and Learning Services, and co-facilitated by Professor Jenny Jones (English), successfully recruited seven academic programs (nine faculty participants) to join a year-long pilot investigation of the URI learning management system, Brightspace, for program assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Program flyer <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/FLYER-Intro-BS-Pilot_Program-Level-Asessment_9.2023-2-1.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/FLYER-Intro-BS-Pilot_Program-Level-Asessment_9.2023-2-1.pdf\">here<\/a>; program description <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/Fall-2023_ATL.ITS_Brightspace-Pilot-Description.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/Fall-2023_ATL.ITS_Brightspace-Pilot-Description.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program and faculty participants: <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8211; Mary Greaney and Natalie Sabik (Health Studies, CHS)<br>&#8211; Justin Richard (Animal and Veterinary Science, CELS)<br>&#8211; Rachel Walshe (Theater, A&amp;S)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8211; Gerald Jalette and Matthew Hodler (Communication Studies; Sports Media, A&amp;S)<br>&#8211; Bethany Milner and Mikyong Kim (Communicative Disorders, CHS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2023 Assessment Innovation Mini-Grant Recipients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"mailto:vkillianlunch@uri.edu\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:vkillianlunch@uri.edu\">Virginia Killian Lund<\/a>, Peter Adamy, Sandy Hicks, Cathy Semnoski, Sara Sweetman, Elementary Education and the College of Education: <em>Integrating a Reflective Portfolio Assessment Tool in Elementary Education Teacher Preparation<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"mailto:amanda_missimer@uri.edu\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:amanda_missimer@uri.edu\">Amanda Missimer<\/a>, Ingrid Lofgren, Department of Nutrition: <em>The Discovery of Micronutrients: An Untold, Unethical History of Human Research<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"mailto:Joseph.nardolillo@uri.edu\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:Joseph.nardolillo@uri.edu\">Joesph Nardolillo<\/a>, Britny Brown, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research: <em>Assessment of Pharmacy Curricular Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-related Topics and Care for Marginalized Communities<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For inspiration from past mini-grant recipients or questions about submitting a proposal, please email: <a href=\"mailto:assess@uri.edu\">assess@uri.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competitive funding is available to support faculty efforts to advance assessment innovation within a program\/department (up to $1,000 per proposal).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1816,"featured_media":19954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[199,43],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-initiatives","category-resource","tag-prog-assessment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","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\/1816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18889,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions\/18889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}