Assessment Committee Meeting Report for April 17, 2009
Attendees: Sheila Campbell, Jen Phenicie, Penny Snyder, Anne Vinson, Kate Peresie
Kate called and conducted the meeting.
TOPIC
DISCUSSION
Karen
Reed’s Role
Karen spoke to the Committee regarding her role on and for the Committee. In
her remarks, she emphasized the importance of a faculty-driven assessment
process and recognized the significant progress the College has made in outcomes
assessment. We discussed the impact and opportunities of semester conversion on
learning outcomes assessment and the work of the Committee.
CLO
Assessment
ACTION STEPS
PERSONS
RESPONSIBLE
TIMELINE
After Karen left the meeting the Committee decided that it would be most helpful
if Karen attended meetings as needed – at the invitation of the Committee and/or
at her request. Karen already receives Committee e-mails and reports.
Speech – the Committee made some suggestions for the Speech Checklist that Phil
Martin provided. The Committee agreed that either the Checklist Rubric would be
acceptable for SpAC assessment.
Notify Karen
Kate
By next
week
Make changes to
checklist, provide
to faculty
Kate
2 weeks
Computer Literacy assessment and Computation pilot assessment – Sheila will
identify courses to be used to get 100 students that represent students from across
the college for Computer Literacy assessment and another 20 or so students for
Computation pilot assessment. Jen reported that her students 100% preferred a
gas card as a participant reward.
ID courses,
provide to Kate;
Notify capstone
course faculty
Sheila
By next
week
2 weeks
Purchase gas
cards
Kate
By next
week
Computation – no report from John Falls regarding development of “Measurable
Objectives.”
Contact John
again
Kate
By next
week
Culture & Community CLO – The field testing of the essay prompt and rubric
done by Mike Allen (thanks to Mike Allen) indicates that the prompt and rubric
are not effective. In light of the fact that the CLO definition and measurable
objectives were developed by a team that focused o the impact of just humanities
and social sciences courses and the failure of the assessment tool, the Committee
decided to start over with the CLO. Anne Vinson volunteered to lead a new team.
Recruit team
members that
represent a crosssection of the
college, report to
Committee
Anne
By next
meeting
Kate
5-Column
Reports
Student
Success
Plan
Next
Meeting
CCSSE assessment of CLOs – Sheila reported that it was Tom Prendergast that
assigned certain CCSSE survey items to each CLO. The Committee agreed to
review the items for CLO assessment/assignment.
Only EA and ECE program reports still missing for 2008. Kate reported that Teri
Brannum says she has the reports, just needs to send them.
Send CCSSE
items to
Committee
Reminder to Teri
Sheila
By next
week
Kate
By next
week
2009 reports will be due October 15.
Reminder to
Dept. Chairs
Kate
By next
week
Link to the web site is now back on the college’s home page.
Next meeting is Friday, May 1st, 9:00 in 149F. Topics include
Assessment/Curriculum Committee communication, using assessment results to
drive improvement, and more.