Soft Skills Assessment

Service

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Soft Skills Soft Skills - Increasingly Critical to Success

Classroom, Career and Job Ready Soft Skills

Success Critical and increasingly required in today’s complex and

fast changing academic and professional environments

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Soft Skills Success Formula

CLASSROOM KNOWLEDGE • Lecture, text, assignments, tests etc.

Soft Skills Video Platform

Knowledge + Soft Skills =

• Relevant, Believable, Compelling Focus

COMMUNICATE

• Content, Order, Extemporaneous Agility

ORGANIZE

• Audience Relevancy, Topics, Theme, Tone

THINK

• Seeing and Hearing Best Practice Presentations Imbeds/Deepens Learning

BEST PRACTICE MODELS

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Soft Skills Assessment Service The Assessment Service Contains Six Collaborative Components

Learning Analysis

Bias Removal

Rubric Development

Soft Skills Assessment Report

Accreditation Review

Sustainable Program

Development

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Soft Skills Assessment Service Assessment Service Components

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Learning Analysis Student results measured by the institution's objective criteria

(rubrics)

Removal of Bias Independent 3rd party experts review the results to remove institutional and grade bias

Aid in Development of Client Rubrics Ability to leverage our knowledge repository of relevant rubrics

and our rubric experts

Soft Skills Assessment Service

Assessment Report Global assessment of learner progress towards learning objectives:

Population and Sample Description

Results - of cumulative sample review

Data Analysis – detailed analysis of strengths and weaknesses of student population

Conclusions and Recommendations – Webinar consultation & expert interpretation

Coordinated Continuous Improvement Discussions – collaborative with the faculty

Accreditation Reviews Assessment Reports highly valued by accreditation reviewers to demonstrate assurance of learning and continuous improvement initiatives

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Soft Skills Assessment Report

STYLE SKILL

Criteria 3: Sophisticated 2: Competent 1: Not Yet Competent

Style Skill

The presentation level is appropriate for the audience. Presentation is a planned

conversation, paced for audience understanding.

It is not a reading of a paper

Speaker is clearly comfortable in front of the audience and can be heard by all

Level of presentation is generally appropriate.

Pacing is sometimes too fast or slow

The presenter seems slightly uncomfortable at times, and the audience occasionally has trouble hearing him/her.

Aspects of presentation are too elementary or too sophisticated for audience.

Presenter seems uncomfortable and can be heard only if listener is very attentive.

Much of the information is read.

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Soft Skills Assessment Service Assessment Enables

Continuous Learning Improvement and Facilitates Accreditation

Analyzes students progress to meet

learning objectives

Improves learning outcomes by

providing metric-based analysis and

reports

Increases quality and efficiency by

aiding in the development of

standards, measurement and

processes

Insures your institution

practices are consistent with accreditation

guidelines and educational policy

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University Outcomes

HELPS UNIVERSITIES INCREASE

Student Recruitment Differentiation Helps attract students to acquire critical job - career ready skills resulting in better hiring probability/better starting pay and greater advancement/compensation opportunities

Student Retention Acquire critical job skills required by employers

Business Community Relationship Value Employers hire critical career/job ready skills

Alumni Relationship Value Helps Increase the University’s value perception

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