Overview
Educational Effectiveness in Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (EEASE)
Educational effectiveness is promoted across the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) and the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (HSEAS), leveraging comprehensive and cohesive processes and plans to support continual improvement of educational offerings and learning outcomes achievement.
The Educational Effectiveness in Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (EEASE) Advisory Committee ensures a forum that fosters discussion and decision-making for developing processes and plans related to assessment and educational effectiveness. Programs from across SAS and HSEAS are representated with the committee membership including all academic department chairs, program directors and faculty program assessment coordinators.
The goals of the EEASE Advisory Committee continue to include:
- Grounding the practice of teaching and learning in scholarship and growing the culture of assessment as an integral part of the teaching and learning experience;
- Sharing information and expertise and encouraging the exchange of ideas including the identification of learning outcomes and curriculum goals to support courses, programs, and the overall educational experience for learners in SAS and HSEAS;
- Providing input and assistance for the design and implementation of assessment strategies-formative/summative, direct/indirect across educational initiatives to support outcomes achievement;
- Guiding the selection of appropriate data and findings for sharing among stakeholders;
- Providing useful information concerning expectations for assessment including those related to regional and discipline-specific accreditation across SAS/HSEAS at the University of Rochester; and
- Ensuring assessment of processes occurs periodically to inform continual improvement in infrastructure and protocols.
Please email josephine.seddon@rochester.edu for with any questions or for additional information.