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Dr. Yuerong Sweetland is Director of Assessment and Faculty of Evaluation, Assessment, and Research Methods and Design at Franklin University. She is also a doctoral faculty advisor and serves on dissertation committees. As the Director of Assessment, she oversees the design, collection, evaluation, and reporting for program and university assessment. She has been leading assessment at higher education institutions for over fifteen years and has presented at local, national and international conferences on various assessment topics, such as portfolio assessment, data informed instructional analysis to support student learning, general education assessment, integration of assessment and curricular planning and improvement, comparative analysis between face-to-face and online learning, and outcome maps. She has conducted research and evaluation in various areas of teaching, learning, instructional design and assessment. She is well versed in both quantitative and qualitative methods. Her most recent research interests include using a mixed-method approach, in particular a combination of surveys and focus groups, to explore factors impacting student learning and success. In addition to assessment and research, she is also an advocate for research ethics for having led and managed the Franklin University Institutional Review Board as the IRB Chair from 2012-2018. She contributes to the higher education community by being an active peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and serving as the Vice-Chair of the Knowledge Development Task Force for the Association of Assessment of Learning in Higher Learning (AALHE).  

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