Changes Regarding Assessment Alteration

UAF CLA, Theatre Department

1) Students will develop their oral and written communication and oral skills. Originally, it was our intention to assess these developments utilizing video technology to record and track students’ performance. Due to lack of budgetary funding to purchase equipment and provide trained video graphic support, this option is regrettably, inaccessible.

1) Students will develop their oral and written communication and oral skills Assessment Evaluations will be based upon written comments made by directors/faculty during semester auditions or final class monologues. These comments will be available for students to review. Though a less desirable format than video recording, evaluations will serve as an analytical tool. Similarly, Portfolio Reviews will be evaluated with comments by faculty and included in the students’ files.

2) Students will develop their conceptual and artistic abilities. 3) Students will develop skills in their area of concentration: performance, film, directing, design & technical theatre. 4) Students will develop their social skills and leadership abilities. Entrance and exit interviews based on declared emphasis within the Theatre Major has proven to be a difficulty. Students are sometimes declaring their emphasis the very last year of academic study. Modification of this procedure will insure a timely analysis of the students’ performance.

2) Students will develop their conceptual and artistic abilities. 3) Students will develop skills in their area of concentration: performance, film, directing, design & technical theatre. 4) Students will develop their social skills and leadership abilities. Entrance and Exit Interviews will be replaced with the Incoming and Outgoing Assessment Forms. These forms stand to evaluate the incoming student’s interest, intents, and experience with the various aspects of theatre, as well as their accomplishments and overview of the Theatre Major upon completion of their degree. It is in our interest to make these forms available online in order to facilitate the data analysis. Alumni surveys will be conducted annually. Email lists will be used regularly to correspond with Alums and update student profiles. Information will be stored in the students file (under “alumni”.)

The Theatre Department has made alterations to this electronic submission of our Program Assessment, which deviates from the previously submitted hardcopy of said Assessment. Reasons for these changes are included.

Previous Version of Program Assessment Current Version of Program Assessment

Timeline of Implementation

UAF, CLA, Theatre Department

Implementation of academic assessment has already begun for the 2001-2002 academic year. This following timeline denotes anticipated progress of analysis. It is in our greatest interest to streamline this process as much as possible. By offering a majority of our Forms online we hope to analyze the outcomes of this assessment much quicker, and with greater accuracy.

WHEN WHAT PROCESS

September	Auditions and Portfolio Reviews	Student Evaluation Forms to be completed by faculty
September	Entrance Assessment	Incoming Assessment Form completed in all classes
October	Assessment Analysis	Completed assessments from current semester to be averaged and compared to previous years.
December	Final Presentation Reviews	Faculty critique final presentations on Student Evaluation Form
December	Exit Assessment	Graduating majors complete Outgoing Assessment Form
January	Audition and Portfolio Reviews	Student Evaluation Forms to be completed by faculty
January	Entrance Assessment	Incoming Assessment Form Completed in all classes
February	Alumni Survey	Alumni Survey to be distributed via email and/or standard mail
February	Assessment Analysis	Completed assessments from current semester to be averaged and compared to previous years.
March - April	Alumni Survey Analysis	Responses to Alumni survey are tallied and compared to students’ incoming assessments (if available).
April	Exit Assessment	Graduating majors complete Outgoing Assessment Form
May	Assessment Analysis	Incoming and Outgoing assessments of graduating students are compared, and analysis concluded.
May	Final Presentation Reviews	Faculty critique final presentations on Student Evaluation Form

Curricular Changes Implemented Due to Outcome Assessment

UAF, CLA, Theatre Department

The Theatre Department operates on a 3-year cycle of class offerings. Due to stated demand by the students, curricular changes are being implemented. Primary of these changes is the fact that the department has been granted the request to recruit a guest set designer/lecturer for 2001-2002. This will allow our department to include THR 343 Set Design in our curricula for Spring 2002.