Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, December 8, 2011
3-4:30 PM
Room AC Board Room
Minutes
Attendees: Linda Nelson, Tristan Londre, Fran Padow, Cheryl Carpenter-Davis, Dachia Scroggins, Mindy
McCallum, Melissa Giese, Cynthia Sexton-Proctor, Lisa Bonneau, Jared Rinck, Mary Ann Blitt, Kristy
Bishop, Tammie May, Eric Sullivan, Leo Hirner, Jim McGraw, Al Dimmitt, Jill Kingsbury, Kim Glackin,
Deanna Snyder, Dan Justice, and Al Dimmitt
Approval of Minutes
The minutes were reviewed and approved.
Vice Chancellor for Educational Services & Technology Report
Cynthia forwarded the concerns from last month to Paul for consideration and inclusion in the DACC charge.
IRB Report
No report
HLC Committee Report
Discussions about assurance criteria, evidence files, reporting, and committee structure will begin 12/21/11.
Survey Reports
Noel Levitz Survey of Student Satisfaction
Discussion was tabled until next meeting
MCC Open Pathway Improvement Project Report
General Education Outcomes, Attributes, and Proposed Rubrics
The General Education outcomes along with the attributes went to DICC for their support. Questions arose
concerning how the CIF’s were to be aligned. The Senate Curriculum committee wanted to know how the
DACC felt about the DICC comments. There was much discussion on different ways the CIF’s could be
handled. There was concern about changing the CIF’s too frequently. A motion was made that: any new
courses lodged at the campus level after January 1st will not need to put General Education outcomes on the
CIF. It was discussed that perhaps the appropriate time to add General Education or Discipline Outcomes to
CIFs would be during a Discipline’s Discipline Review.
The following attributes for assessment focus were adopted for the Communication rubric: all three
Receptive Skills, and Productive Skills #3 (develop the controlling idea using appropriate and effective
details) & #4 (Organize material coherently into a meaningful whole.). The Critical Thinking rubric and the
Information Literacy Option 1 (the hybrid) rubric were adopted. The language will be changed to match the
attributes.
First Cohort evaluations
Kristy presented the results from the survey that was administered to the 1st cohort. Overall, the feedback was
positive. The majority liked the sessions and getting the disciplines together. Concern was expressed on how
to get adjuncts to participate. This will be discussed further.
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Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, December 8, 2011
3-4:30 PM
Room AC Board Room
First reports from the 1st cohort
 Lisa Bonneau reported that the Biology discipline will assess Discipline outcome #3 and Gen Ed
outcome Critical Thinking #3. They have developed 2 questions that all students will be asked on the
final exam for BIOL 101 courses. All faculty will be incorporating the questions into the final.
Faculty will get together for discussion of reliability of the instrument. The questions will be scored
on the rubric and collected by division chairs. The results will then move to IR for additional data to
be collected and the results to be analyzed.
 Jill Kingsbury reported that Economics will assess Discipline outcome #3 and Gen Ed outcome
Critical Thinking #4. They have developed 2 multiple choice questions that students will be asked on
their final exam. Only FT faculty will be expected to incorporate the questions into the final. PT
faculty will be encouraged to use this format. Faculty will calculate the number of students who got
the questions correct. The results will then go to Kristy.
 Dan Justice reported that Engineering will assess Discipline outcomes #2 & #4 and Gen Ed outcome
Communications. For outcome #2 they have developed 10 multiple choice questions that students
will be asked on their final exam. For outcome #4, students will present relevant data and provide a
discussion in a research paper. The Communications outcome will be assessed by scoring student
oral presentations using an existing rubric. They will append the new items to this rubric.
 MaryAnn Blitt reported that Foreign Language will assess all 3 of the writing outcomes using an
embedded writing project (an email to a pen pal) at the end of the course. All instructors, except
Dual Credit, will be implementing this project into their courses. They will get together to review
and norm the papers. Each paper will be scored by 2 different instructors. The same writing sample
and rubric will be used to assess the Gen Ed Communications outcome.
 Cynthia Sexton-Proctor reported that Physics chose discipline outcome #2 and Gen Ed outcome
Information literacy #4 to assess. They will use a set of embedded multiple choice test questions in
each course final or midterm exam. They will be requesting data from IR to discover any correlation
between math course completion and success rates in Physics.
2nd cohort meetings
The 1st meeting for the 2nd cohort is February 17th -2012 at the BR campus. Subsequent meetings are
scheduled for 3/23/2012 at the BTC and 4/13/2012 at MW. The disciplines in the 2nd cohort are: Chemistry,
Geology/Geography, History, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology/Anthropology. A letter from the
Chancellor will be sent to the cohort faculty shortly.
Newsletter
Greg Sanford extended the invitation to anyone who wants to assist with the newsletter. The current
Assessment Newsletter is located under the Communication tab on the MCC Office of Assessment webpage.
Blackboard Organization
This is up a running. Cynthia worked with Deanna Snyder to create a BB group that will hold drafts of the
outcomes, the notebook materials, and other resources for the Pathways project. Discussion boards have been
established to foster communication between faculty and the disciplines in the cohort. The members of the
DACC will be added. Please send Cynthia your employee ID number so she can forward the information to
Deanna for processing. The 2nd cohort will be added next semester.
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Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, December 8, 2011
3-4:30 PM
Room AC Board Room
Higher Learning Commission Update
The Gamma version of the proposed revisions to the Criteria for Accreditation, including the Assumed
Practices and Obligations of Affiliation, is available for review. There have been several changes and
therefor there are many differences to consider. Comments can be submitted before January 9, 2012 and will
be addressed in the Delta version, which will come before the HLC Board for second reading in February
2012. For the current versions of these documents, visit http://www.ncahlc.org/.
Assessment Reports
The Human Diversity faculty will meet with Kristy and Cynthia to discuss outcomes, rubrics and plan an
assessment of those outcomes they will utilize in spring 2012.
Proposals for new assessment or survey requests
No new proposals
Campus Reports
We are still working on a charge for the campus committees. There was a call for Campus Committees to
gather all surveys and assessments currently taking place on their campuses.
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BR-No report
BTC- No report
LV-hasn’t met, Tammie May took Anne Dvorak’s place.
MW- hasn’t met, The MW curriculum committee has become the MW curriculum/assessment
committee.
PV-hasn’t met, looking for a date to meet and will discuss the need to create a common language
across the curriculum for outcomes.
Old Business
 MCC is hosting the 2nd annual Regional Community College Assessment Conference on April 20,
2012 at Penn Valley. A save the date email will be sent out shortly asking for presenters and
facilitators. The MCC conference website is in progress.
 Kristy presented a comprehensive write up of MCC’s current assessment efforts. An overall
assessment timeline was defined.
 Kristy presented the assessment plans for the New Student Orientation project and the Learning
Communities project. Included was an Assessment Toolbox that shows multiple measures of
assessment that can be used in project planning.
New Business
Kristy created an Assessment 101 presentation to provide an overview of assessment definitions and basic
principles. Cynthia and Kristy will be presenting the Assessment 101 presentation to various groups. .
The meeting was adjourned.
Future Meetings
February 9th at 3:00 p.m in the AC Boardroom
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