CTAL appointment
Kathy Langan Pusecker named interim director of Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning
1:57 p.m., Feb. 25, 2016--Kathy Langan Pusecker, director of the Office of Educational Assessment, has been named interim director of the Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning (CTAL) at the University of Delaware, Lynn Okagaki, deputy provost for academic affairs, announced today.
As interim director of the Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning, Pusecker succeeds Deborah Allen, professor of biological sciences, who has become the director of the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education (ITUE).
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Pusecker has successfully supported teaching and assessment of student learning at UD since 2005. Most notably, she contributed to UD’s successful Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaccreditation efforts.
Through CTAL, Pusecker has employed her research and expertise on student learning outcomes to support the UD Faculty Senate’s creation of new General Education purposes and objectives.
“I am honored to serve in this position, and I along with my CTAL colleagues look forward to serving UD to ensure that we achieve our strategic goal to create a learner-centered university," said Pusecker.
About CTAL
The Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning provides a wide range of programming to the UD community to foster high quality teaching, learning and assessment practices.
CTAL endeavors to infuse evidence-based practices into instruction by offering free and confidential services to help all members of UD’s teaching community enhance the teaching, learning and assessment processes.
Services include instructional and travel grants to support curriculum development and assessment projects, as well as presentations, workshops and roundtable discussions.
About Kathy Langan Pusecker
Pusecker has served as the director of the Office of Educational Assessment at UD since 2010, and collaborates with faculty members to improve teaching. She also has been an evaluator on grants for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Science Foundation, and serves as a member of the Faculty Senate General Education Committee.
Pusecker assists the University in addressing the Middle States Commission on Higher Education accreditation standards related to the assessment of general education and student learning, and helps to select and develop tools and oversee their implementation and the analysis and reporting of data.
At the national level, Pusecker collaborates with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) and was on the first team to create the valid assessment of undergraduate education VALUE rubrics to assess general education goals. She chairs the general education committee of the Philadelphia Higher Education Assessment Leaders and serves on the group’s assessment advocacy group.
Pusecker earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and special education from St. Thomas Aquinas College and a master’s degree in business management from St. Mary’s College.