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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Revised 10/21/2013
Course Prefix, Number and Title: ENG 282-Introduction to Language and Literary Expression
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts/English
Submitted by: English Department
Contributing Faculty: Cheryl Cardoza, Molly Lingenfelter, Erika Bein, Natalie Russell, Bridgett Blaque, Ana Douglass
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Complete and electronically submit your assessment report to your Department Chair/Coordinator/Director. As needed, please attach supporting documents and/or
a narrative description of the assessment activities in your course.
Course Outcomes
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
Use of Results
Effect on Course
In the boxes below, summarize
the outcomes assessed in your
course during the year.
In the boxes below, summarize
the methods used to assess course
outcomes during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
the results of your assessment
activities during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
how you are or how you plan to
use the results to improve student
learning.
Based on the results of this
assessment, will you revise your
outcomes? If so, please
summarize how and why in the
boxes below:
Outcome#l
Students will analyze and
interpret linguistic data sets in
such areas as phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax,
and semantics.
Ability will be measured through
regular homework, quizzes, and
exams, judged on a
predetennined standard.
What we tried to do with our
assessment was to tie in at least
one of the learning outcomes
with the rubric. What we found
during the process was that our
outcomes themselves needed to
be re-addressed.
We have identified these areas
for improvement:
--Revise outcomes for course
--Use new outcomes to provide
better guidelines for course
assignments
--Revise rubric for assessment
based on new outcomes
-Refine process for overall 200level assessment. This is
ongoing.
Yes. Below are the new
outcomes for ENG 282 based on
our assessment:
Course Student Learning
Outcomes and Measures:
I) Students will explain the
broad theories of
language.
Measure: Ability will be
measured through quizzes,
exams, and/or papers that are
evaluated by a departmentdeveloped rubric.
2) Students will interpret
the use of language in
diverse literary fonns.
Measure: Ability will be
measured through quizzes,
exams, and/or papers that are
evaluated by a departmentdeveloped rubric.
3) Students will synthesize
For this assessment cycle, the
department fonned a committee
to address 200-level assessment
for the courses up for assessment
(297, 298, 267, 282). The
committee was made up of
instructors who taught the
respective courses, as well as the
department chair, the previous
coordinator, and the current
coordinator (of English). In
order to put forth an unbiased
assessment, we detennined to
collect samples of the
culminating essay/exam in each
class. The instructor of record
was provided an envelope with
We also found our assessment
rubric to be too generic and that
it will need refining for future
assessments, especially since it
focused on outcomes that are
problematic. For instance, the
rubric asked us to measure
assignments that didn't
necessarily fit the outcomes, and
therefore the process itself
became problematic overall.
What became clear to our
committee was that we need to
refine many areas of the 200-
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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course Prefix, Number and Title: ENG 282-Introduction to Language and Literary Expression
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts/English
Submitted by: English Department
Contributing Faculty: Cheryl Cardoza, Molly Lingenfelter, Erika Bein, Natalie Russell, Bridgett Blaque, Ana Douglass
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Course Outcomes
Outcome#l
Students will analyze and explain
the various formal and informal
writing assignments, and/or tests,
judged by predetermined
standards.
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
instructions, as well as a
highlighted roster indicating the
names of students whose essays
would need to be collected. (The
course assignment was also
collected for reference.) Those
samples were then given to
members of the committee to
assess based on the learning
outcomes. A rubric for each
course was developed and each
individual assignment (essay)
was evaluated based on each
learning outcome. The rubric for
each course provided core
indicators addressing the course
learning outcomes and asked
each member to evaluate
assignments from "O"
(Incompetent) to "5" (Superior).
"NIA" for "non-applicable" was
also available. The committee
then met to discuss the results.
level assessment.
See above.
See above.
Use of Results
issues oflanguage,
form, structure, and
style in the analysis of a
literary work or a
current language issue.
Measure: Ability will be
measured by a critical analysis
paper that is evaluated by a
department-developed rubric.
See above.
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Effect on Course
See above.
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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course Prefix, Number and Title: ENG 282-Introduction to Language and Literary Expression
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts/English
Submitted by: English Department
Contributing Faculty: Cheryl Cardoza, Molly Lingenfelter, Erika Bein, Natalie Russell, Bridgett Blaque, Ana Douglass
Academic Year: 2013-2014
Please enter your name and date below to confirm you have reviewed this report:
Title
Name
Date
Department Chair/Coordinator/Director
Erika Bein
6/ 11/2014
Dean
Armida Fruzzetti
6/ 13/2014
Vice President of Academic Affairs
Jane Nichols
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