Presenting Your Culminating Project

Overview

The culminating project allows you to practice and apply what you have learned from your experiences in assessment workshops. Participants in the Assessment Certificate Program (ACP) choose their culminating projects based on their work with assessment within their units. Ideally, the culminating project will not be an “add-on” but will integrate with your current work within your courses, programs, departments, colleges, and/or institution.

Critical Elements of Culminating Projects

As the culminating experience for the ACP, all culminating projects should incorporate four critical elements:

1. Relationship to assessment

This may seem obvious, but as the culminating experience for the ACP, culminating projects should relate to the assessment of student learning in higher education.

2. Tie to what you learned in assessment workshops

Since the culminating project allows you to practice and apply what you learned by participating in assessment workshops, there should be a clear tie between the workshops you attended and your culminating project.

3. Relevance to your work at your institution with assessment

Assessment is based on the principle that it is ongoing, relevant, and significant. We mirror this principle in the culminating project of the ACP. Just as assessment projects should not be insignificant, isolated “one-off” projects, your culminating project should be important to you and your work at your institution.

4. Reflection

As a culminating experience for the ACP, your project should include an element of reflection – on what you learned in the program, how you are applying what you learned, and how your learning may be useful in your future work.

 Culminating Project Guidelines 

City Colleges of Chicago participants enrolled in the ACP will receive information on culminating project requirements. If you have questions on the cumulating project for AY2022-AY2023, please email jnino5@ccc.edu between January 9, 2023- May 15, 2023.

DePaul University and Loyola University Chicago members that are interested in the ACP, please note that these two institutions are not offering culminating project options at this time.