Roompact's "Res Life Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can utilize in your residence life and education practice. Take a look through our past quick tips. Assessment is about improving your practice, but it is ultimately about enhancing the college experience for students. When designing your assessment efforts, don't lose sight of your... Continue Reading →
3 Res Life Quick Tips for Intentional Conversation Assessment
Roompact's "Res Life Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can utilize in your residence life and education practice. Take a look through our past quick tips. Many departments utilize intentional conversations as an educational strategy. Intentional conversations are, as their name suggests, touch points between a resident and a peer leader that are... Continue Reading →
🦠ResLife & Corona Episode 7: Real-Time Assessment Informing Real-Time Adjustments to Your Practice
In episode 7 of Roompact's series on residence life and education during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Paul Brown discusses the importance of real-time assessment. Although always a useful exercise, it becomes increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. Being able to get information back quickly to inform daily decisions can allow you to adapt more quickly... Continue Reading →
3 Res Life Quick Tips for Assessing a Program
Roompact's "Res Life Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can utilize in your residence life and education practice. Take a look through our past quick tips. Programs are often an essential part of a residence life program's educational and engagement efforts. But how do we know they are effective? Being able to construct... Continue Reading →
Storytelling with Data: Engaging Residential Staff in Assessment Practices [Webinar Recording]
This free webinar series, hosted by Roompact in collaboration with the University of South Florida Department of Residential Education, was designed for scholar-practitioners to explore, analyze, and evaluate innovative engagement practices to enhance student success and academic excellence. This four-week series has intentionally scaffolded learning to allow subject matter experts to share strategies, techniques, and... Continue Reading →
Meet the 2019 Roompact Users Conference Presenters and Follow Along at #RoompactCon
The Users conference kicks off this weekend! We’re excited to be hosting educators and professionals from across the country for our second annual Roompact Users Conference. Attendees can expect educational sessions that will help them maximize the use of Roompact’s software to aid them achieving their organizational and learning goals. Below you will find a... Continue Reading →
RA Training for Residential Curriculum: Assessment Data and Exercises
The following is part of a series of blog posts addressing a number of areas related to developing a training program for RAs and student staff members working within a residential curriculum model. Â Posts included in this series are: An Overview Tone Setting and Basics Involving RAs and Generating Buy-In Sequencing and Planning Resources and... Continue Reading →
Utilizing Existing Campus-Wide Assessments and Measures in Your Curricular Approach
As one of the essential elements of a curricular approach, assessment should occur at all levels of your curriculum. This includes on-the-ground assessment of individual learning activities, but also broader based assessment of overall curriculum effectiveness. One way of achieving this broader-based assessment is to utilize data collection instruments you may already be using and... Continue Reading →
On-The-Ground Assessment of Student Learning Out of the Classroom
Moving to a curricular approach calls upon us to become better at assessing student learning. Although it may be common on a campus to have students respond to short surveys providing feedback about a program or service, it is often less common to assess student acquisition of knowledge and skills as a result of an... Continue Reading →