LET Minutes
Wed., Nov. 9, 2005
West Campus, 6-202
Present: Linda Anthon, Nick Bekas, Kira Bishop, Philip Bishop, Melody Boeringer-
Hartnup, Mike Bosley, Jenny Britton, Helen Clarke, Judi Delisle, Aida Diaz, Suzette
Dohany, Kurt Ewen, Emily Hooker, Maryke Lee, Patrick Nellis, Mary Pepe, Melissa
Pedone, Julie Phelps, David Rogers, Allison, Sloan, Roberta Vandermast
Regrets: Celine Kavalec-Miller, Louise Pitts, Ann Puyana, Cheryl Robinson, Sharon
Wyly
Agreements
The following items were agreed upon at the conclusion of the meeting.
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Judi Delisle did an amazing job with the THINK Clearinghouse. Three cheers for
Judi!
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The anchor paper meeting with still take place on Nov. 16 on East Campus.
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We will need to clarify two major issues at future meetings: 1) How will we cycle through assessment of the core competencies? One competency per year, all concurrently, or some combination? and 2) How will we manage the workload and processes as a team? We may not be able to fully answer these until we see how the first year of this multi-year cycle unfolds.
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Our apologies were given to the THINK Writing Contest Team who were left off the agenda and will report first at our next LET meeting in December.
Dialog with Kaye Walter
Dr. Kaye Walter met with the team and indicated that assessment is a priority to her and she is here to support our work and help remove barriers. The following major points were raised in the discussion.
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The most important part of the assessment program is to close the feedback loop by sharing what was learned and making improvements to our various processes. These discussions will most likely have to take place at the department/program level.
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We need to look for multiple assessment measures at many levels to create a complete assessment picture. We may need to look at both global and specific measures as components of an assessment program.
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Our charge as the LET should include pulling together these multiple components into a comprehensive assessment program.
THINK Clearinghouse
Judi Delisle presented the THINK Clearinghouse to the LET. At this site, you can search through full-text, peer-reviewed, scholarly articles on both critical and creative thinking. There is also a database of THINK activities created by Valencia faculty. New activities can be added online. We need to think of ways to encourage faculty and staff to submit their ideas to this site.

Team Reports
 The Gathering Evidence Team submitted four recommendations and a potential timeline to the LET for acceptance. (See Nov. 2, 2005 Gathering Evidence Team
Minutes.) The LET accepted all four recommendations without alteration. The following LET members volunteered to participate in the Fall 2005 THINK trial run:
Melody Boeringer-Hartnup, Nick Bekas, Philip Bishop, Patrick Nellis, Melissa
Pedone. These members will use the THINK rubric to evaluate a set of student work, submit potential anchor papers to the LET, and meet to debrief the experience.
 The Communicate Planning Team reported that the COMMUNICATE competency indicators did not seem sufficient to create an assessment instrument similar to the
THINK rubric. They are investigating existing rubrics in the communications
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 department (such as speech and comp 1) to use as a COMMUNICATE instrument.
The Rubric Workshops will take place on November 10 and 11. There was concern the location and content of these workshops should be better advertised to generate more interest. A collegewide reminder email will be sent out.
The Strategic Marketing Group will publish 6 newsletters a year. The team would like to be more strategic in planning their marketing efforts. Work teams can assist them by providing timelines and other information that can help the Marketing Group plan the for effective communications. The team will contact the Valencia newspaper to see if they will do a story on the use of the online student THINK self-assessment rubric. This is in an effort to share the data and process with more students. The
Marketing Group asked the LET to consider rolling out the Year of
COMMUNICATE in January 2007.
Listening to My Colleagues Article
Pat Nellis distributed the article “Listening to My Colleagues: What Faculty
Learned from Collaborative Review of Student Evidence.” LET members are asked to read this article by our Dec. 7 meeting.
Next LET Meeting*
Wed., Dec. 7, 2005
2:30pm-4:30pm
Location: TBA
*Work teams should create their own meeting schedule.