Assessment Committee Meeting Report for March 15, 2005
Attendees: Amy Welsh, Dale Doty, Diane Hipsher, Anne Vinson, Peg Moir, Richard Birk, Mike Allen, Janet Boeckman, Kate Peresie, Lew Milner,
Pete Grant, Joe Badamy (visiting), Robyn Kloepfer.
Anne called and conducted the meeting.
TOPIC
WAC
DISCUSSION
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The Committee (Mike) has two reports from last spring –
Dorie Ford’s radiology course and Jen Adkins’ accounting
course – from the pilot project for the writing rubric. Jen’s
writing assessment data is reported in Excel.
The process for collecting, reporting and responding to data
should be the same for the WAC and CAAP assessment
projects.
The purpose of WAC (and CAAP) is to assess the whole
curriculum – institution-wide assessment. We are interested in
assessing the level of attainment of learning outcomes when
students are near graduation, usually in capstone courses. Data
will be reported as institutional data, not student or program
data.
We are NOT collecting data pre and post for each student.
We DO want to be able to identify cohorts (by program) and
determine what English courses students have taken. This will
help us to answer the “why” questions if we do not meet our
threshold. Therefore, when collecting data, we will need to
include quarter, course, and section information.
The Committee agreed upon a threshold of 80% of students
attaining a score of at least 80% on the writing rubric.
The sample size from the capstone courses should be a
minimum of 8 students or 20% of the class, whichever is
greater. A process for selecting a sample from a class will
need to be determined by the Committee.
For now, data will be collected using the Excel spreadsheet.
The spreadsheet reports the score for every element of the
rubric and the total score for every student. The template will
be made available on the Assessment web site. Reports will be
ACTION STEPS
PERSONS
RESPONSIBLE
TIME-LINE
Develop a process for
sampling classes.
The
Committee
Next
meeting
Put template on the
web site.
Kate
After
process
approved
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CAAP Process
Omaha Goals
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collected by the Assessment Coordinator electronically.
The goal is to have web-based data entry into a central
repository, similar to the grade entry process using the roster
as the input mechanism, with Institutional Research analyzing
the data.
CAAP and WAC processes should be the same.
Anne and Mike presented possible reporting/accountability
processes for collecting the data. Other options were
discussed. Using the data (closing the loop) also needs to be
part of the process. This part might be based on the 5-column
format the Committee has already adopted.
Postponed until Spring Quarter
Further develop the
Anne and
process proposal for the Kate
next meeting.
First week
Spring
Quarter
Put it on future meeting
agenda.
Spring
Quarter
Anne