Hey, everyone, this is Shawn. We had the chance to go to Charlotte, NC, this past weekend and present at a national living learning conference, where we spoke for 90 minutes about VIP and how we tailored it based on your feedback. Fifty faculty and administrators from over forty schools listened to our talk “Grading on a Curve: How We Changed Our Living Learning Program Based on Assessment.” Through your project work—blogs, surveys, collages, posters, video journals, action plans, and a final report—you provide us with regular input that we study and act upon. So while the spring survey told us your expectations for VIP, the journals and updates help us determine whether we are meeting them. Moreover, we learn from you how you are growing in our three key areas: critical thinking, civic-consciousness, and self-awareness.
Critical Thinking | Civic-Consciousness | Self-Awareness |
analysis | community service | self-critique |
evaluation | values formation | self-correction |
problem-solving | pondering the “good” | self-knowledge |
Our ongoing assessment has two goals, to improve your VIP experience and to aid in your personal development. Ideally, you are learning how better to design a project and work in a group, while we are learning how better to offer fun and creative ways to enhance your VIP involvement.
The conference audience LOVED your work, especially the action plans and the video journals. I think they found impressive your level of intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and organized planning. Special thanks to Beyond Tutoring, From You Guys to Y’all, and Sustainability through Food—who graciously loaned us their materials. Our goal was to show off your progress and, based on the feedback, I feel we succeeded in doing that. So kudos to you, because your work is being viewed on a national scale.
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