ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE MINUTES
April 9, 2004
Room 149F
Members Present: Dale Doty, Carol Easely, Beth Franz, Pete Grant, Ross Justice, Doug Kranch, Sharon Miller, Peg
Moir, Kate Peresie, Ann Vinson
The meeting was called to order at 1:00 p.m.
The minutes for February 27, 2004, were read and approved.
Assessment Coordinator Report: For the Faculty Development Day on May 6, 4 people are coming from Terra
Community College and 2 from Lorraine Community College to be on the AQIP panel. Lunch will be provided by the
Assessment budget line. The committee discussed what activities should be engaged in during the lunch. It was decided
that 9 tables would be set up, one for each AQIP criterion. The publication about the AQIP criteria also includes a
number of questions that need to be asked an answered for each criterion, and these questions can be used to trigger
discussion at the tables. Committee members should be placed at each table to act as recorders and facilitators. Kate
Peresie will call a third college to have enough panel members that one panel member can also be at each table. Kate
hopes that the college will be in position to apply for AQIP by sometime this Fall.
One of the critical components of the AQIP model is documentation, and a central depository for assessment
information should be established. Kate mentioned that she had sent Brad McCormack an email on April 8 asking if
some central electronic location on the college information system could be set up to act as an accumulator of college
assessment information. After some discussion, a Web-based Electronic Fact Book for Institutional Effectiveness
(WEBFIE) was proposed. Included would be outcomes, assessment methods, criteria, and assessment results which
members of the college community should be able to update on their own. The goal would be to produce a paperless
assessment recording system. The committee chair will invite Brad McCormack to the next Assessment Committee
meeting to discuss creating or purchasing such a recording system.
Kate discussed the assessment budget line items in the committee. Included will be training on the NCS scanner for
core people; professional development travel to the Higher Learning Commission annual meeting, the Ohio
Assessment Conference, and other activities; the WEFBIE development; clerical survey support; AQIP training
monies; and training for effective committee management for the chairs of standing committees.
The committee discussed the activities for the hour which the committee has on Faculty Professional Development
Day. The attention of the committee was diverted to the proposal of including assessment criteria and methods in
course syllabi. It was noted that no specific testing or course evaluation methods are included in the course syllabi and
that each instructor has the freedom to asses the students as that instructor deems appropriate. Specific assessment
methods are better placed on the individual instructor’s first day handout. The syllabus could have in its outcomes
section a statement that the instructor will explain how each outcome is assessed on that first day handout.
For the Professional Development Day, the committee, after discussion, selected the following agenda:
1. Show a humorous video to be produced by Kate Peresie on assessment.
2. Have Kate Peresie present a few slides showing the overall progress of programs in completing all 5 parts of
the assessment cycle, as done last year.
3. Have Terry Coleman and Mike Allen distribute the writing rubric and manual, explain them, and answer any
questions.
The committee chair delegated the coordination of the activities to the Assessment Coordinator.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:20 p.m.
The next meeting will be on April 23, 2004, at 1:00 p.m. in F-148.