Assessment Committee Meeting Report for October 23. 2008
Attendees: Om Prendergast, Teri Brannum, Robert Slabodnick, Kate Peresie
Kate called and conducted the meeting.
TOPIC
DISCUSSION
Assessment Day
Pilot
Kate reported her discussion with Don Plotts, Betty Wells and Peg Moir: All
agreed that the pilot this year will have to be optional, need incentives for
student participation; Don indicated that the pilot will need to be completed
before the Committee could request that participation is mandatory and that
the University System of Ohio plan may have an impact on learning outcomes
assessment. He also agreed that having the Assessment Day could support
what may come out of the USO plan.
The Committee discussed possible days for the Pilot and supported
investigating further holding it on Career Expo Day (5/13/09). Health
Sciences Student Inservice is the same day. Maybe something, too, with
Student Activities – May Days? Something around the common hour
schedule? Could classes be canceled or student participants be excused from
classes?
CLO Assessment Computer Literacy CLO assessment was moved to this spring. The
Committee discussed the number of tests to order for Assessment Day. As
part of the discussion, the Committee considered possible participation rates
and the current CLO schedule. The Committee decided to recommend a
change from the current 2 year cycle of assessment for each CLO to a 3 year
cycle – 2 assessments tools/CLOs per year. (Limited participant pool, time to
use past results to implement strategies and measure change.) With that
schedule, we will attempt to do 100 computer literacy assessments this spring.
Also, we will pilot a Culture and Community CLO assessment and the Speech
pilot this spring. CAAP Critical Thinking, then, will move to 2010.
Computation Literacy CLO needs to progress.
CCSSE
The Committee suggested ways to celebrate the CCSSE results for critical
ACTION STEPS
PERSONS
RESPONSIBLE
TIMELINE
Discuss with Pres
Staff
Kate
By 11/13
meeting
Order Comp Lit
tests
Kate
Next
week
Develop prompts
for Cult &
Commun
assessment
Mike
By 11/13
meeting
Seek support of
Deans and
Faculty Caucus
Kate
By 11/13
meeting
Work with John
Falls
Contact Don re
Kate
By 11/13
meeting
By 11/13
Kate
Celebration
thinking: Leader, Newsbriefs, Division Newsletter, President’s Newsletter.
Curriculum
Committee
The Committee is interested in pursuing via the Curriculum Committee a
modification in their curriculum approval process for the purpose of
incorporating more assessment.
Next Meeting
The new Curriculum Committee chair will be invited to join the Assessment
Committee, once appointed.
Next meeting is Thursday 11/13, 1:00, 149F.
Pres Newsletter,
Keith Stoner re
Leader
Bring to future
meeting.
Iinvite Chair
meeting
Kate
This
quarter
Kate
TBD