TERRA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Fremont, OH 43420
Assessment of Student Learning
Monitoring Report
MEETING DATE: December 4, 2013
TOPIC: Assessment of Student Learning
Review of Calendar Year 2013 for Assessment of Student Learning:
This year has primarily focused on implementing the new process/protocol for academic
assessment at Terra State. Presented to the full-time faculty in February 2013, this
protocol focuses on assessment of stated learning outcomes in a three-year cycle
featuring annual rotation of outcomes to be assessed.
The first phase of this implementation focused on assessment planning at the college,
program, and course levels, with a target date for all planning activities of May 2013. As
of November 2013, 37 of 62 non-exempt associate degree programs (59.7%) have
completed the planning steps, with a total of 48 programs (77.4%) having completed at
least part of the planning process. The 14 remaining programs are, by and large,
programs that have no full-time faculty assigned to them, have recently hired a full-time
faculty member after a period of vacancy, or are undergoing curricular changes that have
required an extension to their process.
Moreover, assessment data regarding two of the College’s General Learning Outcomes
has been collected for Spring 2013 from 34 of the 62 programs (54.8%), and programs
will be submitting their Fall 2013 data on the same two General Learning Outcomes at
the close of the Fall semester. To date, faculty have submitted assessments of more than
1,100 student assignments related to the College’s communications outcome, and some
350 student assignments related to the College’s global learning outcome (a disparity
which is to be expected due to the prevalence of communications activities in collegelevel coursework).
Programs will submit reports on the Program Learning Outcomes or Course Learning
Outcomes measured in 2013 by January 24, 2014, and the Assessment Committee will
issue a report on the General Learning Outcomes measured in 2013, including the faculty
assessments, and including student assessment from the 2013 CCSSE survey and Terra
State’s 2013 in-house graduation survey.
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Achievements for Assessment of Student Learning November 2012 through
December 2013:
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Examination of General Learning Outcomes. Completed January 2013. The
College’s General Learning Outcomes were examined and revised by the
Assessment Committee. In addition to non-substantive revisions to the wording of
the five existing General Learning Outcomes, a sixth Outcome was added,
covering the College’s objective regarding students’ digital literacies; this is
General Learning Outcome #6 in the List of General Learning Outcomes (Revised
January 2013) below.
Gain approval for revised Assessment Procedures, calendar, and cycles.
Completed February 2013. The revised General Learning Outcomes, as discussed
above, were presented to CASA, and forwarded to the full-time faculty for
approval. This unanimous approval was obtained on January 10, 2013. The
Assessment Committee created and implemented revised procedures, calendars,
and cycles; these were implemented in February 2013.
Conduct assessment workshops for all full-time faculty (and administrators and
part-time faculty as needed) explaining new assessment protocol, calendar, and
cycles. Completed February 2013.
Conduct data workshop for interested faculty, in conjunction with Dr. Michael
Ryan and the faculty professional development series. Completed January 2013.
Implement revised Assessment Procedures for General Learning Outcomes,
Program Learning Outcomes, and (as necessary) Course Learning Outcomes.
Completed February 2013.
Reinvigorate faculty leadership for academic assessment by appointing Faculty
Assessment Liaisons from faculty members with longer terms of service on the
Assessment Committee; first Liaisons: Amy Drongowski, Jeff Hamilton, Andrew
Shella, and Bruce Wassung.
Complete first annual Assessment Cycle under revised Procedures, including all
data collection, analysis, and reporting. In progress, to be completed January 24,
2014.
Goals for Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes 2014 (calendar year):
 Work with non-academic divisions and departments to create assessment
processes for their interactions with students and begin collecting data (by June
2014).
 Conduct Academic Assessment of two additional General Learning Outcomes,
and continue cyclical assessment of specific program- and course-level learning
outcomes (beginning January 2014; to be completed by January 2015).
 Implement Taskstream Assessment Accountability Management System; First
stage pilot with select Allied Health programs (January through June 2014); larger
pilot with select programs across campus (July 2014 to July 2015); campus wide
implementation, if indicated (July 2015).
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List of General Learning Outcomes (Revised January 2013)
1. Communicate effectively in writing and speaking.
2. Evaluate arguments according to the principles of logic.
3. Demonstrate understanding of cultural differences and ability to work effectively
in a culturally-diverse, global society.
4. Employ the methods of inquiry and research commonly used in the natural
sciences, the social sciences, mathematics, the arts, and the humanities.
5. Engage in our democratic society.
6. Demonstrate literacy in electronic environments, which may include hardware,
applications, and/or media.
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