What is Educational Effectiveness at Maryland?
Educational Effectiveness is an emerging Strategic Initiative focused on supporting UMD instructional system innovation and continuous improvement with data, tools and collaborative partnerships. We work very closely with the TLTC, IRPA, DIT, Undergraduate Studies and multiple colleges and departments.
We help you improve student success, provide you relevant and actionable data, create user-friendly insightful tools and help position UMD as a national leader in educational effectiveness through innovative projects and national collaborations.
More than good teaching, it's a shared institutional commitment
Educational effectiveness is the ongoing practice of asking whether your teaching, curriculum, or program is working for all students, and using evidence to improve it. It lives at every level of the university, from a single course to a department's degree requirements.
Self-Service Tools
Want to find out when your students are available to meet? Interested in reviewing and improving your course assessments? Want to check how your exams have changed over time? These tasks and more ca be achieved with the self service tools.
Guided Tools
Does your program have bottlenecks that block some students from moving forward? Do you want to see when, and from where students move in and out of your program? How do the courses in your program align? These tools are available for deeper investigation (access limited and training required).
Custom analyses
Have you undertaken a major change in your course and want to monitor the impact on students? Are there particular course transitions where students struggle? Teaching a large course and want to explore quantitative and qualitative data to guide improvements? These and many more questions can be investigated in collaboration with Educational Effectiveness.