Student Outcomes Assessment Committee Meeting
ITTC 139
September 29, 2006
I.
Welcome
Introduction of members, including new member Marilyn Drury
Today‟s agenda
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Report on HLC Workshop in July
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Updates and activities in process
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IV.
MAPP—MAPP/AP history handout
Abraham, Walsh, Butler, Somervill—190 + 104
On-line for 104
NSSE—handouts of questions and benchmarks
Position description for Director of Academic Assessment (in process, to be
presented at a later meeting)
Review of SOA Committee Functions Draft
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V.
Who went—Jerry Smith (CBA), Jim Jurgenson (CNS), Kristin Mack (SBS),
Barry Wilson (COE), Marty Reineke CHFA), Kristin Moser (IR), and me
Agenda/purposes
Reports from those who attended if they wish
Plan developed by the team
Handout—draft
Need for statement (various committees related to assessment on campus)
Frequency of meetings—ideas?
Thoughts for topics for upcoming meetings?
Comments/Updates from Committee Members
Committee-Representatives from:
Jerry Smith
Barry Wilson
Martie Reineke
Jeff Weld
Adam Butler
Karen Cunningham
Gayle Pohl
Marilyn Drury
Phil Patton
Joan Smothers
College of Business Administration
College of Education
College of Humanities & Fine Arts
College of Natural Sciences
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Division of Continuing Education & Special Programs
Graduate College
ITS-Educational Technology
Registrar - Division of Educational & Student Services
Office of Academic Advising & Career Services
Mark Jastorff
Thulasi Kumar
Donna Vinton
Marilyn Mercado
Jennifer Younie
Adam Bentley
Office of Alumni Relations
Office of Institutional Research
Director of Academic Assessment - Academic Affairs
Library
StudentStudent
Student
SOA Committee Meeting
November 3, 2006
1 p.m., ITTC 349
Major topic: SOA Policy Statement
I.
Introductions
Some new faces, so intros are in order
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Update on Assessment Office Activities
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III.
Assessment Institute (Program Overview handout)
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IV.
Meeting with Academic Deans and deadlines for spring; meetings with Deans
NSSE for 2007; FSSE (handout); special analysis-back in early December?;
committee to look at NSSE results—headed by Jill Wallace
Meeting with CAPR re language for reviewing SOA plans
Martie
Donna
UNI Assessment Policy Statement—Beginning Discussion (handout)
Assumptions:
 A conversation we will return to.
 Today‟s goal is to begin to gather ideas.
 Our conversation will not necessarily be coherent, comprehensive, or detailed.
Possible directions for discussion:
 information that is no longer accurate
 information that is still accurate
 aspects of the statement that you like and think should be kept in a revised
statement
 aspects of the statement that you think are unnecessary
 content that you think might be included in a revised statement
 General thoughts on formats, language, sections, etc.
Possible resources
To prepare for this meeting, you might take a look at the UNI policy statement at
http://www.uni.edu/assessment/policy.pdf
Not an assignment by any means (!), but if you are curious about what others have done,
you might look at some of the policy statements at the links below to see how statements
vary and to think about formats, language, sections, etc., that you like:
Iowa State University
http://www.academicprograms.iastate.edu/assessment/guidelines.html and
http://www.academicprograms.iastate.edu/assessment/academicPRPolicy.pdf (p. 6
of this document)
Central Michigan
http://www.provost.cmich.edu/assessment/resources/Assessment%20Policy%20224-04.pdf
Illinois State University
http://www.assessment.ilstu.edu/downloads/uwac_wpaper.pdf
Northern Arizona University
http://www4.nau.edu/assessment/assessment/degree/plan.htm
Montana State University
http://www2.montana.edu/policy/student_outcomes_assessment_poli.htm
California State University Long Beach
http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/aa/grad_undergrad/senate/documents/policy/1998/06
/index.html
Western Washington University
http://www.wwu.edu/depts/assess/Assessment/Finalplan.pdf
Pittsburgh State University
http://www.pittstate.edu/inres/assessment/assessplan/assessmentplan2006-07update.doc
If you know of other policy statements that you think would be of use for our discussions,
feel free to e-mail links to all of us or to bring a copy to our meeting.
SOA Committee Meeting
December 1, 2006
1 p.m., ITTC 349
Major topic: SOA Policy Statement
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Updates
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Potential Sections for a Revised SOA Policy Statement
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IV.
Article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, November 28, 2006, “State
Legislators Should Take a Lead in Setting Higher-Education Agenda Report
Says”
Article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2006, “In
Meeting With Accreditors, Spellings Pledges Quick Action to Make System
„Work Better‟”
Thanks to Marilyn Drury for forwarding article on Earlham College and its
assessment results published in USA Today and invitation to the committee to
feel free to pass on articles that they think would be of interest to committee
members
Preview of web page in development to provide a password-protected site for
posting department student learning outcomes and student outcomes
assessment plans (as a first step to open publication of this information)
Handout: Potential Sections/Content for a SOA Policy Statement
Committee members mark boxes on the handout
Discussion; committee members leave their handouts with me for tabulation
for future discussion (Discussion to be continued in the spring)
Next Meeting
We will not meet again till spring semester. A request for available meeting times
will be sent out in January.
SOA Committee Meeting
March 7, 2007
8:05 a.m., ITTC 349
Major Topic: Continued discussion of SOA Policy Statement
I. Announcements and Updates
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Director reports
Mary Huba visit, April 11
My meetings with colleges re SLOs this semester
One department heads from each college offered opportunity to attend HLC Annual
Meeting with OAA paying half
Update on SOA/SLO page—almost done (waiting for login and then need to upload
files)
Presentation to Teaching-Learning Consortium, march 1
BOR presentation next week
NSSE Task Force
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Member reports
Barry‟s grant proposal
Jerry Smith presenting at HLC Annual Meeting
Others?
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II. Potential questions for audit for department heads
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What would be useful to know about assessment policies, procedures,
attitudes/beliefs, etc., at the department level?
III. Discussion Of Potential Policy Statement Content
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Summary of ratings of necessity and comments from last meeting
Thoughts, clarifications, questions, etc.
SOA Committee Meeting
April 17, 2007
Survey Monkey, Mary Huba, Next Year
I. Updates
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Team going to HLC Annual Meeting this weekend; Siobahn selected as a peer reviewer
Assessment and Learning with Technology webinar
My recent meetings with HPLS, C&I, and COE department heads
Password-protected web page is up—need to make sure programs are correctly listed and begin to
upload files; SLO statements are due May 5
NSSE update—ads, response to date (last year 35% rate of 1440 students, 267 freshmen and 237
seniors, 504 total responding)
Updates from others:
National Survey of Student Engagement
Institution Interface
View Response Summary
Below is a summary of your school's disposition codes, including a rough, unadjusted response rate.
Dispositions are updated daily at 9am EDT.
Disposition
Count
Percentage
Complete
787
24.59
Partial
61
1.91
Refusal
61
1.91
Nothing returned
1156
36.13
Mailing returned/undeliverable
895
27.97
Not eligible
240
7.50
Total
3200
100.00
Preliminary response rate (Completes + partials, divided by total sample - ineligibles): 28.65%
II. SurveyMonkey or Other Surveys
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Martie—triggering questions from CHFA SOA Committee
Joan—use of SurveyMonkey for graduate follow-up data and on the survey in general
Thoughts re questions for graduate follow-up survey
Thoughts re use of a tool like SurveyMonkey
III. Thoughts for Next Year’s Activities
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Handout—Progress on tasks outlined by team that attended HLC assessment workshop last summer
Ideas for 2007-8? Thoughts triggered by Mary‟s ppt?