NMA CheerLeadeR

Gimmie a C-L-R! Course Learning Reports! Assessment is F-U-N! Go Team!

NMA CLR (CheerLeadeR) Captain

What?

What is a "CLR?"

CLR stands for Course Learning Reports. It's a new assessment practice that we all need to do.

Why?

Whay are we doing this?

Don't ask. Just do it. :) Just kidding. We need to do this for many reasons, but accreditation is one of the most important.

Who?

Who needs to submit a CLR?

  • Chris Gargiulo (2)
  • Sharon Sussman (2)
  • Liz Nakoa (1)
  • Emily Moody (4)
  • Diana Jeon (3)
  • Raphael Lowe (1)
  • Joe Hunt (1)
  • Chris Ota (1)
  • Jared Matsushige (2)
  • Jake Shimabuku (3)
  • My Anh Lu (1)

When?

When do we need to do this by?

The official due date to submit all CLR's is May 10th. Internally, I am planning on passing them on to the powers that be as soon as each online Google Form is submitted.

How?

Just Follow The Instructions

1

Gather Your Grades

To Refresh Your Memory for Each Student

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You'll need a list of the student names for each course. Start by checking the course list below and be sure to note the semester. Then gather your grades, notes, class assignments, etc - whatever you need to refresh your memory about the individual students that you will be evaluating for each course.

2

Go to the Google Form

Check Your Email for the Link to the Online Form

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Check your email and follow the link to the online Google Form that I set up for us, or click on the button below to go to the form now. Follow the form instructions and do your best to input a score for each student in your class. Use the NMA CLR Rubric as a scoring guide. If you have less than 15 students, just leave those slots blank.

Go to the Google Form
3

Hit Submit... Done!

Once You Hit Submit, Google Will do the Rest

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Try to fill out the form and hit submit only once, but if you mess up, no worries. Just go back, follow the link, and redo it. Once you hit submit, you are done! No need to print, Google will auto-generate out a pdf that Chris will submit to Colette.

Video Demo

Watch this Video Lesson for Detailed Instructions

List of NMA Courses that Need CLR's

21 Total NMA Courses

Interface Design:

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Brief Backstory

General Reasoning for Doing It This Way

Rather than have each teacher spend time doing them separately (i.e. each pick a course competency, calculate the numbers, fill out the form, etc), we made a program decision to all do the same thing in one simple way: by assessing the same course competency ("communication") and by each submitting an online Google Form for each course. Chris set it up so Google Docs will crunch the numbers and auto-generate the required pdf form.

One Competency

Assessing the Same Competency

We only need to assess one competency right now, so to make things easy, we will all be assessing the same exact course competency which is the "communication" competency for each course, which is stated as follows:

Course Competency: Communicate effectively, both visually and verbally, by presenting work, defending design decisions and by participating as an active critic during group critiques.

This course competency is aligned with this program SLO (Student Learning Outcome):

NMA SLO: Communicate effectively both visually and verbally in the classroom, community, and industry.

Scoring Scale

1-5: from Poor to Excellent

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To remain consistent across all NMA courses, we chose to use a simple 1-5 scale, designed to approximately correspond to a F-A grading scale that we are already used to:

  1. Poor (similar to a F)
  2. Fair (similar to a D)
  3. Good (similar to a C)
  4. Very Good (similar to a B)
  5. Excellent (similar to a A)
Download The Rubric