Dear colleagues,
Following upon CEA’s record of commitment to engaging in both internal and external assessment and evaluation processes, CEA Global Education is entering a new and exciting stage of growth where our collective energies, in all aspects of our work, will become even more fully directed towards fostering a culture of quality assurance, ongoing outcomes assessment of student learning, and program evaluation.
One immediate step we are taking towards this objective is the testing of student global perspectives — what these perspectives are and how they evolve as a result of the learning experiences they encounter through CEA’s many study abroad programs.
To this end, all spring 2011 CEA Global Campus students will find in their MyCEA Account a link to the Global Perspective Inventory — a widely recognized testing tool in study abroad specifically designed to provide aggregate reports on student perspectives in three dimensions of global learning and development:
• Cognitive
• Intrapersonal
• Interpersonal
The tool will also collect their views on the community and their level of involvement in selected curricular and co-curricular activities. Following completion of their study abroad programs (May-June), students will be asked to take the survey again via another link in their MyCEA Account.
This valuable information will tell us much about our many students and, in consequence, about how we at CEA can design and deliver more effective programs for their individual student learning and development in study abroad.
Detailed information about the GPI can be found at https://gpi.central.edu/index.cfm
While students are not required to take the survey, participation will be key to its effectiveness in evaluating our programs. We respectfully ask for your support in encouraging our Global Campus students to take part in this initiative. I have appointed our Paris Academic Dean, Scott Blair, as the project leader for the GPI initiative. You may direct any questions or observations you have about this project to Scott.Blair@GoWithCEA.com.
I look forward to sharing with you additional assessment initiatives and exercises as this new phase in CEA’s history evolves.
Brian Boubek
Chairman & CEO
CEA Global Education
Following upon CEA’s record of commitment to engaging in both internal and external assessment and evaluation processes, CEA Global Education is entering a new and exciting stage of growth where our collective energies, in all aspects of our work, will become even more fully directed towards fostering a culture of quality assurance, ongoing outcomes assessment of student learning, and program evaluation.
One immediate step we are taking towards this objective is the testing of student global perspectives — what these perspectives are and how they evolve as a result of the learning experiences they encounter through CEA’s many study abroad programs.
To this end, all spring 2011 CEA Global Campus students will find in their MyCEA Account a link to the Global Perspective Inventory — a widely recognized testing tool in study abroad specifically designed to provide aggregate reports on student perspectives in three dimensions of global learning and development:
• Cognitive
• Intrapersonal
• Interpersonal
The tool will also collect their views on the community and their level of involvement in selected curricular and co-curricular activities. Following completion of their study abroad programs (May-June), students will be asked to take the survey again via another link in their MyCEA Account.
This valuable information will tell us much about our many students and, in consequence, about how we at CEA can design and deliver more effective programs for their individual student learning and development in study abroad.
Detailed information about the GPI can be found at https://gpi.central.edu/index.cfm
While students are not required to take the survey, participation will be key to its effectiveness in evaluating our programs. We respectfully ask for your support in encouraging our Global Campus students to take part in this initiative. I have appointed our Paris Academic Dean, Scott Blair, as the project leader for the GPI initiative. You may direct any questions or observations you have about this project to Scott.Blair@GoWithCEA.com.
I look forward to sharing with you additional assessment initiatives and exercises as this new phase in CEA’s history evolves.
Brian Boubek
Chairman & CEO
CEA Global Education