REDWOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Meeting of the
Assessment Committee
Room FM 112, Eureka Campus: 7351 Tompkins Hill Road,
CCC Confer from Del Norte and Mendocino Campus
Monday, March 24, 2014
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Meeting Notes (in italics):
1. Institutional Learning Outcomes (attachment)
Catalog Description – Place after the Philosophy statement. Include most of the initial
introduction, and each outcome explanation except the possible assessment tools. Shorten
some language in the description (e.g., This institutional outcome indicates if the objectives…).
Syllabus inclusion? Process for going through the Senate.
Suggested that the syllabus is not the best place to communicate ILOs. About CR on the
webpage, and dialogue sessions at convocation about ILOs will lead to regular
communication. The senate will discuss this further with Dave.
Surveys and Time Line for Assessing ILOs and both reporting and using results
ILO #1will be discussed in a dialogue session at convocation, #2 at convocation. The
revised graduate exit survey will be implemented very soon so that some students will have
provided feedback by the first dialogue session.
2. Dialogue Sessions - what's next?
Change the way dialogue is presented on the assessment website. Place all dialogue to
one page with clear labels. Leave program dialogue separate, but re-label as “Program
Dialogue Assessment Reports”
Next sessions should be “Financial Aid” session to discuss repeatability changes. Unsure
if this is what the Art Department was wanting related to having money to buy supplies, but it
seems to be a useful session anyway. Changes to unit caps, etc. and their impact on students
ability to meet the outcomes. Consider inviting athletics, art, GS….
Professional Development sessions (like at Center for teaching excellence), to listen to
the needs of faculty to improve outcome attainment. Can we do more with our professional
development dollars on campus? Ahn Fielding and members of the Professional Development
Committee should attend. Invite the humanities, CTE faculty?
3. Assessing the Assessment Process - more formalized feedback and subsequent
improvements to the process
We might want to wait until fall to evaluate new tools that not everyone has had time
to use.
4. ACCJC standards and corresponding individuals and groups responsible for maintaining
the standards at CR (attachment).
The committee reviewed all of their currently assigned substandard and will do report
outs depending on the timeline of inquiry.
David Bazard reported that the Senate has approved a new multicultural understanding
requirement for GE. The initiative that led to this proposal was a result of both discussions
within the Multicultural and Diversity Committee and through GE assessment dialogue
sessions. This is evidence that a modification/improvement to the college was developed
through the use of assessment and dialogue.
An implication of this proposal is that the Global/Cultural Context GE outcome will need to be
re-evaluated. This may also be an opportunity to re-evaluate the current practice of having
all GE outcomes map to all GE courses.