LET Minutes
Wed., December 7, 2005
The Lee Home
Present: Linda Anthon, Nick Bekas, Kira Bishop, Philip Bishop, Melody BoeringerHartnup, Mike Bosley, Helen Clarke, Aida Diaz, Suzette Dohany, Kurt Ewen, Emily
Hooker, Celine Kavalec-Miller, Maryke Lee, Patrick Nellis, Mary Pepe, Melissa Pedone,
Julie Phelps, Ann Puyana, David Rogers, Allison, Sloan, Roberta Vandermast, Sharon
Wyly
Regrets: Louise Pitts, Kaye Walter, Cheryl Robinson, Judi Delisle, and Jenny Britton
Agreements
The following items were agreed upon at the conclusion of the meeting.
 It is important that we understand how our work should be integrated into current
assessment efforts at the institution. We will invite Jared Graber to a future meeting
to help us understand the departmental assessment planning process.
 The LET supported the concept of an organizational redesign of our working
processes based on Kurt Ewen’s proposed “option 2.” We will continue to develop
this idea in future meetings.
 Our charge as a committee may evolve over the next several months as institutional
assessment processes change, but the LET will remain committed to the assessment
of TVCA as our primary work.
 The planning team for the Year of Communicate received LET support of their plan
to develop an instrument to evaluate the communicate competency from existing
measures of assessment at the institution.
Continued Dialog with Kaye Walter
Emily and Melissa met with Kaye Walter to discuss possible revisions to the
original LET charge. This will likely happen as the institution seeks to build better
connections in its assessment systems. Dr. Walter suggested we invited Dr. Graber to a
future LET meeting to learn more about existing departmental assessment plans. She
requested two specific things from the LET.
1. That we provide a timeline to her (short term and long term) to plant ideas and get
faculty and staff in touch with assessment plans.
2. That we pull together more evidence (beyond the rubric projects) for the end of
year THINK report.
LET Organizational Redesign
Kurt Ewen presented current and optional models for LET operational models.
We discussed in depte the need to create an induction process for new members and to
develop work teams with strategic overlap was discussed in depth. The team felt that
“option 2” would be the most efficient operational model in the future and agreed to
revisit this model in the future to add more detail.
Work Team Reports
Planning for COMMUNICATE Team
The team plans to gather methods of assessment from current common course
outlines that are linked to communicate in the Course Outline Builder. They will also
look at existing measures of assessment at the institution to develop an institutional
instrument to assess the communicate competency. The work team received the
endorsement of the LET to continue in this direction.
Workshop Planning Team/Gathering Evidence Team
Members of the two teams met to select anchor papers to be used in future holistic
scoring workshops. Sets of anchor papers were found for a variety of disciplines. A
schedule of workshops and guidelines for workshop leaders needs to be set for the spring
2006 semester. As a reminder, a summary timeline is below.
Jan. 2006
Advertise Year of THINK faculty development program and
assessment project to recruit participants
Feb 2006
Rubric and Thinkability workshops
Mar/Apr 2006
Faculty participants implement thinkability assignments and score
using rubric.
April 2006
Faculty participants meet in focus group to discuss rubric and
process. Class sets of scored student work submitted to the LET.
Summer 2006
Interdisciplinary teams conduct holistic scoring on the submissions
and debrief that process. Deans are informed of assessment
process, outcomes, and how departmental assessment plans might
include LET work. Recommendations are made from lessons
learned for the Year of COMMUNICATE.
Marketing Team
The November/December issue of the LET newsletter is out. Send Roberta
newsletter ideas. The Marketing team will develop a form to submit communication
needs to them. The Gathering Evidence Team and Workshop Planning Team will be
sending an invitation in early spring to participate in the Year of Think professional
development program.
Work Teams
A request was made to share the current LET work team membership. If you see
any corrections that need to be made, please send them to Melissa.
Clearing House Group: Judi Delisle, Ann Puyana, Roberta Vandermast
Workshop Planning/Assessment Curriculum Group: Linda Anthon, Nick Bekas, Kira
Bishop, Mike Bosley, Jenny Britton, Celine Kavalec-Miller, Pat Nellis, Julie Phelps
Gathering Evidence Group: Linda Anthon, Maryke Lee, Melissa Pedone, Julie Phelps
Writing Contest Group: Nick Bekas, Jenny Britton
Marketing Group: Mike Bosley, Mary Pepe, Roberta Vandermast
Planning Team for Year of Communicate: Melody Boeringer-Hartnup, Helen Clarke,
Aida Diaz, Suzette Dohany, Kurt Ewen, Pat Nellis
Organizational Redesign: Kurt Ewen, Roberta Vandermast
Financial Aid Letter Assessment Project: Helen Clarke, Kira Bishop, Emily Hooker,
Linda Anthon, Jenny Britton
Next LET Meeting*
Wed., Jan. 18, 2006
2:30pm-4:30pm
East Campus, 3-113
*Work teams should create their own meeting schedule.