Assessment Committee Meeting Report for January 13, 2006
Attendees: Anne Vinson, Richard Birk, Terry Coleman, Lew Milner, Kate Peresie, Joe Badamy, Mike Allen, Janet Boeckman.
Anne called and conducted the meeting.
TOPIC
DISCUSSION
ACTION STEPS
PERSONS
RESPONSIBLE
Anne
TIME-LINE
CAAP Testing
for Critical
Thinking
The Committee discussed the need to:
 Better control the physical environment. (During
testing, students need to be seated every other chair,
facing forward, not auditorium style.)
 Have a representative sample of students near
graduation when doing the testing this spring.
 Keep testing with courses (as opposed to a “testing
center”) so students are more motivated.
 Provide faculty training in the test administration
beyond a handout with instructions. Include
Committee members for training as proctors.
 Instruct students to identify themselves as
sophomores on the test.
Ask Tom Prendergast to
determine the number of
students with 80 credit hours or
more and how many will need to
be tested to be a significant
sample size.
Videotape a training session to
use with handouts. Include
instructions for students to selfidentify as sophomores.
Anne
Early Spring
Quarter
Ask Deans to assign
faculty/courses for testing.
Lew and
Janet?
Feb. 24?
Ask Deans to approve
classrooms for testing and make
alternative arrangements as
needed.
Lew and
Janet?
Feb. 24?
Order CAAP Tests.
Terry will arrange dates with
Mike and Phil Martin, possibly
Beth Franz and Rich Rader
Kate
Terry
Mar. 30
ASAP
Ask Tom to set up webinar with
possible dates.
Anne
Week of Jan
16.
Next
meeting.
Future consideration – to do pre and post testing.
WAC and
Speech Rubrics
Training
Workshops
Investigation of
E-Lumen
Assessment Tool
Workshops will be scheduled for Winter Quarter.
The Committee agreed to participate in a webinar on ELumen. Possible dates are Feb 14, 3:00 or 1:00; Feb 21,
1:00.
Report on
General Studies
Assessment
Rubric
Evaluations of
Program/Depart
ment 5-Column
Reports
Mike reported that he met with Paul Sukys and Bob Lewis
to pursue the plan to administer a writing prompt to
students who had completed their humanities, social
sciences and English courses as a means to assess general
education and critical thinking. Paul and Bob decided to
not pursue this plan. Instead they each will do pre- and
post-tests in one course as a pilot for Spring Quarter and
expand the effort into more courses for Fall Quarter.
The Committee agreed to support this plan, recognizing
that it does not assess broad general education outcomes,
but does assess some course outcomes in general
education. Terry noted that if enough assessment of
general education course outcomes occurs and is
documented, then it eventually may be possible to reach
some broader conclusions about general education
outcomes. The Committee agreed to revisit this
issue/project at the end of Spring Quarter when Bob and
Paul will have their first reports. Terry volunteered to
investigate pre- and post- assessment tools used for general
education.
Many members have not completed the rubric evaluations
of the 5-column reports. This process needs to proceed so
feedback can be provided to the programs and
departments.
Revisit general education
assessment.
Committee
End of
Spring
Quarter
Investigate pre- and postgeneral education assessment
tools and present findings to the
Committee.
Terry
March?
Request all Committee Members
to complete rubric evaluations
on all submitted 5-column
reports and mail to Anne by Feb
7.
Anne
ASAP
After all rubric evaluations are completed and sent to
Anne, they will be sorted by program/department. On Feb
14, each Committee Member will be assigned one to two
programs for which they will create a summary
rubric/report using the Excel format. The summary
rubric/report will be reviewed by the Committee then sent
to the programs/departments and to the Academic Council.
Complete rubric evaluations,
mail to Anne.
Every
Committee
Member
Feb 7
Sort submitted rubric evaluations Anne
by program/department and
assign to Committee Members.
Include e-mail/letter with
instructions and Excel form of
rubric.
Feb 14
Send Excel form of rubric to
Week of Jan
Joe
Anne.
Next Meetings
16
Write summary rubric/reports
for each program/department,
send to Anne.
Committee
Members
Feb 28?
Send teaching, etc. schedules to
Anne.
Faculty
Committee
Members
ASAP
Our next meeting is scheduled for Feb 14, ? time. Agenda
will include picking up program rubric/report assignments.
E-Lumen webinar time/place to be announced.
Faculty schedules are needed to set up further meetings.