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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Revised 10/2l/2013
Course Prefax, Number and Title: ENGL 221-Writing Fiction
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts/English
Submitted by: English Department
Contributing Faculty: Brad Sununerhill; Cheryl Cardoza; Eric Neuenfeldt
Academic Year: 2014-2015
Complete and electronically submit your assessment report to your Department Chair/Coordinator/Director. As needed, please attach supporting documents and/or
a narrative description of the assessment activities in your course.
Course Outcomes
In the boxes below, summarize
the outcomes assessed in your
course during the year.
Outcome #!
Students will employ or
consciously work within or
against the conventions of
Standard Written English (SWE)
in the production of a body of
work that demonstrates fiction
writing techniques.
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Measures
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Results
In the boxes below, summarize
In the boxes below. summarize
the methods used to assess course the results of your assessment
activities during the last year.
outcomes during the last year.
The faculty members teaching
221 formed an assessment
committee. The committee
collected final portfolios from
two sections of 221. The
committee used a rubric to assess
the feature portfolio short story
on the competency of this
outcome. The rubric follows the
0-5 scale employed in other
creative writing course
assessments. O=incompetent,
I=-very weak, 2=marginal,
3=adequate, 4=strong.
5=superior, and N/A=not
applicable. Each portfolio
received three readings.
Overall, the feature short stories
in the portfolio demonstrated
student success in our Writing
Fiction course. The average score
for final feature story in the
portfolio was 4.1. We discovered
a few areas that need
improvement. The first is that
stories should be collected in
more classes during the threeyear assessment cycle. This will
give us better assessment
coverage across sections and
instructors. The second is that
instructors need to better
communicate and align their final
portfolio assignment sheets.
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Use of Results
Effect on Course
In the boxes below, summarize
how you are or how you plan to
use the results to improve student
learning.
Based on the results of this
assessment. will you revise your
outcomes? If so, please
summarize how and why in the
boxes below:
Next year, the committee will
begin collecting and discussing
final portfolio assignment sheets.
We will consider revising
Outcome # 1 to better define the
"fiction writing techniques" we
will be assessing in the
portfolios. Revision to such
language is a discussion point in
all creative writing courses the
department offers.
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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course Prefix, Number and Title: ENGL 221-Writing Fiction
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts/English
Submitted by: English Department
Contributing Faculty: Brad Summerhill; Cheryl Cardoza; Eric Neuenfeldt
Academic Year: 2014-2015
Course Outcomes
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
Use of Results
Effect on Course
Outcome#2
Students will demonstrate the
ability to produce a body of work
that demonstrates various stages
in the drafting process, including
significant evolution from initial
concept to finished product in
fiction writing.
The committee used the same
process outlined above, but
assessed the Statement of
Revision in the portfolio and,
when necessary. the rough draft
version compared to the final.
The results for this outcome were
encouraging as well. The average
score on the Statement of
Revision was 3.95. The process
of assessing this outcome
revealed a few flaws. We
discovered that our final portfolio
assignments in some sections
didn't match the others, so
assessing what we called
"Statement of Revision" in the
Portfolio was difficult.
Outcome#J
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We will review each other's
assignment sheets for the
portfolio and align them while
still providing a space for
instructors to use their own
approach.
We won't revise the outcome and
instead better communicate about
the final portfolio assignment
sheet.
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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course Prefix, Number and Title: ENGL 221- Writing Fiction
Division/Unit: Liberal Arts/English
Submitted by: English Department
Contributing Faculty: Brad Summerhill; Cheryl Cardoza; Eric Neuenfeldt
Academic Year: 2014-2015
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