Learning Outcomes Assessment

Not only are we committed to great teaching and learning at NLU, but we are willing to stand by our practices by the transparency of data to demonstrate the learning of our students. To this end, we ask you to always use your Rubrics in your courses so that we can collect data to tell us how well our courses and assignments are contributing to learning and in career-readiness for our students. Rubrics also help provide you with an opportunity to provide constructive, formative, and actionable feedback to students. Note that merely clicking the rubric scores is helpful, but be sure that your feedback matches the level of the score the rubric returns (and you might want to check to make sure the score is what you expected!).

While we support you modifying and improving content in your courses, as needed, there are some assignments that we must keep standardized to use for benchmarking purposes. If you are teaching a course with a signature assessment, an artifact that is being used by the program to measure a Program Leraning Outcome, (e.g., discussion, assignment, quiz, etc.), you will be notified so you can be sure to keep that assignment “as-is”, that you use the rubric as objectively as possible, and that you assertively encourage your student to complete it (even though we hope you encourage your students to complete all their assignments).