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Enhancing Quantitative and Scientific Reasoning at MSU

MSU's project aims to assess and improve students' QR/SR skills by involving faculty, aligning assessments, and making curriculum changes based on data. Phases include goal development, faculty involvement, assessment integration, and student testing. The project team, led by experts from various disciplines, collaborates to enhance undergraduate education quality at Michigan State University.

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Enhancing Quantitative and Scientific Reasoning at MSU

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  1. MSU Project Goals • Involve faculty in a process of examining and evaluating the liberal learning goal for Quantitative and Scientific Reasoning (QR/SR). • Assess QR/SR of students at Michigan State University • Use the data to guide curricular change and faculty teaching practice

  2. Phase 1: Summer 2007 Align the JMU Assessment with the Needs of MSU • Developed 8 learning goals for QR and SR • Aligned the JMU assessment items with the objectives • Created items to fill “gaps” in the alignment between JMU items and MSU objectives

  3. Phase 2: Fall 2007 Faculty Involvement and Support • University Committee on Liberal Learning • Faculty goal ranking task • Individual faculty comments on the items

  4. Phase 3: Spring 2008 • Pilot the JMU and MSU QR/SR items in elective and majors courses. • Partnership with Quantitative Literacy Working Group • Agreement from Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education to test incoming students during summer orientation

  5. Phase 4: Spring 2008 An MSU Specific Assessment and Process • Integrate the SR/QR and QL goals • Create a blueprint for MSU combined assessment using the results of faculty rankings • Choose items based on the psychometric analysis of pilot data • Refine items using cognitive interviews with students

  6. Phase 4: Summer 2008 and beyond • Test incoming freshmen at Academic Orientation • Follow-up testing prior to “junior standing” • Test in capstone courses • Use the data to make programmatic and pedagogical changes to enhance the quality of undergraduate education at MSU

  7. MSU Team • Diane Ebert-May - Plant Biology • Dennis Gilliland - Statistics and Probability • Vince Melfi - Statistics and Probability • Megan Donahue - Physics and Astronomy • Jennifer Kaplan - Science and Mathematics Education • Gabe Ording - Center for Integrated Studies and Entomology • Alla Sikorskii - Statistics and Probability • Elena Bray Speth - Plant Research Lab and Plant Biology • Nicole Johnson - Teacher Education • Doug Estry - Office of the Provost

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