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Assessment Staff
There are multiple people at Miami University with the expertise to help with assessment. If you have general questions about assessment, Miami Plan program review, or any of the projects described on this website, please contact one of the Assessment staff members listed below or stop by our office. We would be happy to help you!
CELTUA Staff
CELTUA Staff with expertise in Assessment
Tom Kopp, CELTUA Faculty Teaching Associate, Teacher Education. Formerly with the Syracuse University Center for Instructional Development, Tom has for the past 25 years been a member of the Teacher Education Department faculty. Concerned about the high school-college transition, he coordinates the multi-section course, EDT 190 "An Introduction to the Teaching Profession, and acts as a First-Year Honors Mentor. A campaigner for active learning, he has developed and delivered over twenty-five different courses and seminars for educators. Underlying it all is his work in the dynamics of human motivation, specifically how curiosity affects learning.
Cecilia Shore, Director of CELTUA, facilitates CELTUA's New Faculty Teaching Enhancement Program (NFTEP), and the Graduate Student Teaching Enhancement Program (GSTEP). Her teaching interests include active learning methods, student intellectual development, undergraduate research and graduate students' development as teachers. She has considerable experience in curriculum revision and assessment at the departmental level. She received the Associated Student Government Outstanding Teacher Award in 1990, and the College of Arts & Science Distinguished Educator Award in 2000.
Beverley Taylor, Physics, Hamilton Campus, is Director of the Top 25 Project: Engaging Students in Their Learning. In this project many of the university's highest enrollment courses are being redesigned to be more student-centered and to emphasize inquiry-based learning. She has expertise in inquiry-based teaching, particularly in the sciences, in assessment at the course and departmental level, and in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Jerry K. Stonewater: Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics 513-529-9266; stonewjk@muohio.edu
Marjorie Keeshan Nadler: Professor, Communication513-529-7175; nadlermk@muohio.edu
Theodore C. Wagenaar, CELTUA Faculty Teaching Associate, Sociology and Gerontology, has received teaching awards from various regional and national professional associations. He is a 1999-2000 Carnegie Teaching Scholar. He has led numerous workshops on curriculum development, evaluating teaching, and effective teaching methods and is available to consult on these topics. He is leading the CELTUA Evaluation of Teaching Seminar Series. He is also working with Jerry Sarquis to design and implement a Student Teaching Consultant Service for Miami faculty. ASSESSMENT FELLOWS
The Assessment Fellows are a group of faculty members who have been working for several years to develop methods of assessing critical thinking and to share their interest in this with the university community. The Assessment Fellows have conducted assessments of critical thinking in foundation and capstone courses, have guided faculty in the Assessing Critical Thinking projects, and have conducted several workshops on assessing critical thinking and developing students' critical thinking skills. They have been extremely valuable in helping assess the Top 25 Project.
ASSESSMENT TEAM
The Assessment Team implements the University assessment plan, drafts appropriate documents for the Assessment Council's approval, and carries out, at the Council's direction, all assessment activities related to the overall assessment plan and its evaluation. The Assessment Team oversees and implements many of the day-to-day assessment activities.