REDWOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Monday, February 23, 2015 Meeting of the Assessment Committee Room FM 112, Eureka Campus: 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Minutes Meeting began at 2:46 p.m. Updates a. Assessment Committee Co-Chair David Bazard summarized the 2/20/15 Senate discussion and vote on assessment deadlines. Dave stated that the Senate agreed to the new deadlines of having assessment reports due the same semester as when the assessments are conducted. The Senate agreed, but modified the deadline to be one week after grades are due at the end of the semester. The Senate unanimously approved the amended proposal regarding the deadlines. b. Assessment Committee Co-Chair Angelina Hill presented a draft copy of an Assessment Report to be presented at the March Board of Trustees meeting. Much of the committee discussion focused on the percent of programs and courses that have assessed all of their course or program-level outcomes within a 2-year period. There was discussion about the sustainability of a 2-year cycle as well as the factors that influence compliance with that cycle. Theses factors include cancelled class sections, parttime faculty who may not continue with the college the following semester, and the start and end dates of an individual class’ or program’s 2-year cycle. The committee agreed to discuss the rapid pace of the 2-year cycle at a future meeting. Discussion Items 1. Continuation of ACCJC Matrix and the role of the Assessment Committee – see Feb 2 attachment. Co-Chair Angelina Hill highlighted some of the areas of the ACCJC Matrix that may be challenging to address given our current system of assessment. One regards the degree to which we map course outcomes to GE outcomes. Each GE course demonstrates how the course meets the GE outcomes, but there is not specific mapping to the GE outcomes. The work of the Senate’s ad hoc committee on GE assessment may help with this mapping. Another area is the degree to which we can evaluate the assessment results for demographic groups within the college. The committee discussed methods by which we may be able to determine how certain groups perform. The discussion focused how to achieve this without divulging individual student identities within the assessment reports. This is challenging for small courses where only one or two students may fall into a specific group. The committee described methods of having more generalized assessments that could be tied to student demographics, possibly by having online testing that is tied to student logins? The co-chairs will discuss some of these options and consider a proposal to achieve this ACCJC requirement. 2. Update - Using Canvas for assessment – Assessment Committee members (and Canvas user group members) Lisa Sayles and Wendy Riggs briefly described how Canvas may aid in compiling assessment results and help stream line the reporting process. Both Lisa and Wendy stressed that more experience with the options of Canvas will be required before we are at the point of suggesting specific assessment options within Canvas. The committee agreed to continue with this discussion and return to it as the college becomes more accustom to using Canvas. Meeting Adjourned: 4:55pm