Engaged Learning Assessment
We are no longer collecting student reflections in Digication during the 2024-2025 academic year; the assessment initiative concluded in Spring 2022 and was only for the assessment taking place Fall 2021 - Spring 2022.
Assessment data collected during 2021-2022 is proving very helpful to the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship as we continue to refine the University’s Engaged Learning requirement with the Engaged Learning (EL) Subcommittee of the Board of Undergraduate Studies. (See link to executive summary below.) Although we will not be reviewing students’ final reflection assignments until a future assessment cycle year, please nonetheless continue to incorporate a comprehensive reflection assignment among the concluding elements of your course: the 2021-22 and 2015-16 assessments have demonstrated that such an exercise invites students to reflect more deeply and make meaning for themselves regarding their experience of Engaged Learning in your course. We offer a modified version of our standardized assessment-reflection prompt (shown below) as a model.
Loyola University Chicago Mission Statement:
“We are Chicago’s Jesuit, Catholic university – a diverse community seeking God in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.”
Holding in mind the University’s mission statement, please compose a written reflection of at least two double-spaced pages that explains:
- How did you connect your in-class and out-of-class Engaged Learning experiences?
- How did your Engaged Learning experience help you connect to the University’s mission?
- How did the Engaged Learning experience in this course affect your personal, intellectual, civic, and/or professional development?
Here you can view the Engaged Learning Assessment Executive Summary from the 2021-2022 year.
Here you can view the Engaged Learning Assessment Executive Summary from the 2015-2016 year.
If you have any questions about the reflection assignment, or about Loyola’s EL requirement in general, please don’t hesitate to send us an e-mail at engagedlearning@luc.edu.
We are no longer collecting student reflections in Digication during the 2024-2025 academic year; the assessment initiative concluded in Spring 2022 and was only for the assessment taking place Fall 2021 - Spring 2022.
Assessment data collected during 2021-2022 is proving very helpful to the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship as we continue to refine the University’s Engaged Learning requirement with the Engaged Learning (EL) Subcommittee of the Board of Undergraduate Studies. (See link to executive summary below.) Although we will not be reviewing students’ final reflection assignments until a future assessment cycle year, please nonetheless continue to incorporate a comprehensive reflection assignment among the concluding elements of your course: the 2021-22 and 2015-16 assessments have demonstrated that such an exercise invites students to reflect more deeply and make meaning for themselves regarding their experience of Engaged Learning in your course. We offer a modified version of our standardized assessment-reflection prompt (shown below) as a model.
Loyola University Chicago Mission Statement:
“We are Chicago’s Jesuit, Catholic university – a diverse community seeking God in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.”
Holding in mind the University’s mission statement, please compose a written reflection of at least two double-spaced pages that explains:
- How did you connect your in-class and out-of-class Engaged Learning experiences?
- How did your Engaged Learning experience help you connect to the University’s mission?
- How did the Engaged Learning experience in this course affect your personal, intellectual, civic, and/or professional development?
Here you can view the Engaged Learning Assessment Executive Summary from the 2021-2022 year.
Here you can view the Engaged Learning Assessment Executive Summary from the 2015-2016 year.
If you have any questions about the reflection assignment, or about Loyola’s EL requirement in general, please don’t hesitate to send us an e-mail at engagedlearning@luc.edu.