Report on the LA Cohort tasks
Spring 2010
Facilitator: Anne-Marie Bourbon, Foreign Languages Department
Participants:
Joseph Bertorelli, Mathematics Department
Elise Denbo, English Department
Lorena Ellis, Foreign Languages Department
David Humphries, English Department
Charles Neuman, Physics Department
Maurizio Santoro, Foreign Languages Department
Liaisons: Peter Bales
Margot Edlin
Like last term the Cohort was made of faculty coming from various disciplines
which facilitated interaction between faculty of other disciplines in the College.
We met at the beginning of the semester and then communicated by e-mail as it
was difficult to find dates convenient to everyone for further meetings. At the first
meeting we designed a plan of action and decided to exchange syllabi, lesson
plans and assessment tools across the disciplines each faculty member
represented.
We compared course outlines and assignments. Each one of us in the cohort
chose one course they taught to be assessed, and one or two assignments to
measure learning outcome of students. We adapted and used the rubrics we
had designed during the previous term.
During the term each faculty member assessed his/her class and we gathered
rubrics and results. Attached are individual rubrics, results and reports of the
work we each did.
The end result was that once more everyone had the experience of using a
rubric, and we were successful at adapting this practice to our courses. This
shows promise for future use of rubrics for assessment of students’ achievement.
It was also very enriching to share issues, ideas and suggestions with faculty
members from other disciplines. The whole task was a learning experience.