Assessment Facilitators Group Meeting
Minutes
October 24, 2014
Attending: Melinda Jackson, Robin Love, Diane Wu, Carol Reade, Julie Sliva Spitzer, Lynne Trulio, Minnie
Patel, Scot Guenther, Demerris Brooks, Emily Wughalter, William Street
Meeting convened at 12:20pm
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Melinda Jackson shared several informational items with the group:
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Institutional Educational Effectiveness Index (IEEI) document was completed and turned
in to WASC. Thanks to all for helping to get this information pulled together!
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Update on GE Assessment Review section now required as part of Program Planning
Report, per Senate Policy 14-5. Details on what is required are posted online here:
http://www.sjsu.edu/ugs/faculty/programplanning/index.html.
ACTION: MJ will send an email reminder about this policy to Associate Deans for
distribution to department chairs.
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Scot Guenter raised the issue of clarifying the role of temporary faculty in assessment,
particularly given the large number of GE courses taught by lecturers.
ACTION: Discussion of the role of temporary faculty in assessment will be added to the
agenda for our next meeting.
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Update on assessment of Minors – no official CSU policy, but our campus would like to
see some type of assessment of minors that are required as part of a major program.
Further clarification is still needed on what specific assessment data is needed, and how
this should be collected by major programs.
ACTION: Revisit this discussion and seek further clarification from UGS.
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Review of Senate policy (S13-10) on assessment of certificate programs.
ACTION: MJ will send an email reminder about this policy to Associate Deans for
distribution to department chairs.
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New Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) from Lumina, available at
www.degreeprofile.org. Defines degree qualification standards for Associate, Bachelor’s
and Master’s degree levels. May prove a useful resource for programs and colleges to
consider in their assessment process.
Lynne Trulio presented an Assessment Case Study from the Environmental Studies Department,
in College of Social Sciences. LT shared a spreadsheet that ENVS developed that details PLOs and
measurable outcomes, mapped to specific courses in the program, and described their annual
department retreat in which that year’s assessment data and report are presented and
discussed among all faculty.
ACTION: LT will share ENVS program assessment spreadsheet with the AF group through
Assessment Committee Google Drive.
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Check-in on Assessment Feedback to programs in each college: MJ shared Assessment Cycle
graphic, highlighting the role of AFs in the last step of interpreting results, through annual
feedback to programs. Continued use of the WASC Program Learning Outcomes rubric was
encouraged, and sharing of new ideas or practices that come out of the feedback process.
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Ideas/Requests for future meetings
o MJ noted that information from several recent WASC trainings she attended will be
posted on the UGS program assessment website (Assessment 101, Quantitative
Reasoning and Assessment in Majors, and Critical Thinking and Information Literacy).
She will also share some of the highlights from these trainings with the AF group at
future meetings.
o Colleges are also free to request MJ to visit their own assessment coordinator group
meetings.
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Next meeting: Friday, November 21, 12:15-1:30pm
Clark 412
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AF To Do List: Continue meetings/feedback sessions with programs in your colleges
Meeting adjourned 1:35pm