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, April 7, 2014
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Minutes
1. Merging of some degree and certificate assessment areas - where degree and certificate courses
are the same (plus or minus GE). This was a discussed at the last Program Review meeting.
The committee discussed the similarities of outcomes for some degree and certificate programs and the
need to duplicate assessment reports of the same outcomes. However, the merging of reports would
need to be done on a case-by-case basis because some certificates may have different outcomes or a
different number of outcomes. A suggestion was made to have a “trigger” within the form that would
allow a duplicate certificate report to be created. This might be an alternative to merging, and may
allow a certificate with fewer outcomes to share the degree assessment reports in cases where both
degree and certificate are the same. We will return to this issue after discussing this with IT in terms of
available options.
2. Dialogue Sessions - what's next? Financial Aid and Professional Development?
The Financial Aid dialogue session is scheduled for 11am Friday April 18. We will evaluate the need for
additional dialogue sessions this semester after this one is held. There may be a conflict between holding
LMS review sessions and dialogue sessions.
3. Use of the planning pages. Many disciplines have incomplete assessment planning pages.
The Assessment Coordinator will send out a reminder regarding use of the assessment planning page.
Some areas have not completed plans beyond Spring, 2014 and a few disciplines do not have any
planning boxes checked. A follow-up memo will also be sent to Deans and Directors.
4. Closing the loop process and form changes?
The committee agreed that our current “closing the loop” process should be modified to continue
documentation of improvement, but to make it easier to use. The concept discussed is to have a portion
of the course assessment form that asks the authors to review the previous assessment of the outcome
and then a space to reflect on the impact of changes made based on that previous assessment. The
committee also discussed if it would be possible for the “findings” from the previous assessment to be
automatically posted in the new report. This would make it easier to reflect on the findings from the
past.
5. Assessment related convocation sessions? Program-Level Assessment reporting, ILO Dialogue,
Other? - Assessment Basics?
The committee suggested the following assessment-based Convocation sessions: 1. Program-Level
Assessment report workshop. 2. ILO Dialogue session (entire college). 3. Assessment basics for new
faculty and those with questions about the process. In addition, the assessment coordinator will
participate in the Associate Faculty Orientation sessions, which occur the week after convocation or a
few days before at the branch campuses.