Residence Life and First Year Experience Assessment Toolkit

Residence Life and First Year Experience Assessment Toolkit Presentation Braylon Junior Keenan Jones Nick Jewell Jess Hamrick

Overview of Topic Residence Life is a functional area in student affairs that strives to build a community for students who live on campus. Through programs, academic support and outcomes, and personal development initiatives, Residence Life hope to be a part of the feeling of comfortability for first year students.

First Year Experience Living Learning Communities (LLC) First Year Experience Residence Halls which mainly consist of First Years

Types of Assessment for Residence Life Community Assessment Do first year students feel connected? Do they feel like they belong on campus? Program Assessment Do programs fit the outcome that is desired? What can be improved or changed? Academic Achievement Assessment Do first-year students who live on-campus perform better academically?

Community Assessment : Sociograms Graphic representation of social links between a population of people Communication Social Choices Relations

Sociogram & Residence Life What do sociograms provide for Resident Life Employees? Social Dynamic Overview Similar Characteristics Community Leaders Reliable Emergency Assistants Trustworthy People

Sociogram Critiques What are some drawbacks to sociograms? Time Inconsistent behavior patterns

Community Assessment: Ball State uses sociograms the first semester of each academic year to assess the community of the residence hall A semester long project that spans from August - November Discusses resident facts, community engagement, and the characteristics of each resident Also includes resident interactions such as friends and roommate conflicts

Sociogram Example

Program Assessment: SWOT Analysis is a useful technique for understanding your Strengths and Weaknesses, and for identifying both the Opportunities open to you and the Threats you face.

Academic Achievement Assessment: Map-Works Map-works is a student retention After Map-Works determines at risk students it allows for and success system that administration to set up protocol focuses on uniting academics and resource delimitation to and the residential experience. engage that student and help Map-Works works to gauge the risk them connect. of a student not being retained and it measures it in multiple ways. There are several levels of interaction that can exist within Connectedness to class Residence Life Connectedness to the university Success in class RA interaction and conversations Programs and events HD interaction and conversation

Map-Works at the University of Arkansas

Pro's and Cons To Map-Works Pros Tracks a very real threat to First Year students Connects several partners to the success of students that live on campus Gives trackable data of student interactions Supplies needed assessment data for departments to make decision. Cons Focuses pretty heavily on first year experience when there are other factors that could lead to retention issues Pulls in several partners that may have wavering and differing idea on the data's usefulness So much room for error, the system isn't intuitive enough

National Residence Life Assessment Partnership between ACUHO-I and EBI-Map Works Utilizes the CAS Standards and ACUHO-I core competencies as a "measuring stick" for Residence Life offices around the world The assessment tool utilizes input from both residents and resident assistants

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