Storytelling with Rizz: Useful Data Through Reasonable Assessment
Thu, Oct 03
|Zoom
with Marc Lo, Executive Director of Penn First Plus


Time & Location
Oct 03, 2024, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Zoom
About the event
Multi-digit shifts in cell counts. Statistically significant change. A majority of students claiming the workshop was “bussin” and that the facilitators “understood the assignment.” Like the students we serve, we often get caught up in the need to prove ourselves and our work. Designing, collecting, and interpreting quality assessment instruments then creates cognitive overload as we think “more is more” when it comes to data. Occasionally, we also ask too much of the participant by evaluating minutiae that might not feel relevant to their frame of reference. Drawing from the facilitator’s knowledge and experience as a faculty developer and institutional assessment leader, this workshop will focus on how outcomes-focused assessment and evaluation can be simple, easy to accomplish, and leave you with good sound bites for storytelling. Through this webinar, will participants will come to:
- Differentiate between evaluation, assessment, and /Assessment/
- Identify at least one program for which a low-stakes assessment would be of value
- Practice two methods of outcomes-driven, low-effort assessment design
- Participants are encouraged to come with one or more programs whose assessment is in need of some TLC.
Marc A. Lo, Ph.D. is the inaugural Executive Director for Penn First Plus. Marc is responsible for providing leadership for Penn’s work to reimagine itself and become more inclusive of its increasing socioeconomic diversity. Marc was the first person in his family to complete his bachelors degree, receiving Pell Grant support while working multiple jobs as an undergraduate. He holds degrees in Organizational Communication and Higher Education from Northeastern University and New York University, respectively. His scholarship explores questions of campus climate for diversity and their relationship with student learning as well as topics of inclusive pedagogy and curricula.