Open a browser, and navigate to http://taskstream.com
The username is your CPTC email:
Firstname.lastname@cptc.edu
Password: taskstream1
If first time using TaskStream,
• Sign “End User Agreement”
• Complete account information
• Personalize password, if desired
• Open Work space
LOGIN ONTO TASKSTREAM
Increase your understanding of assessment at CPTC
Add outcomes information to TaskStream
Map outcomes to the mission/goals of the college
Select 3 outcomes to assess during the year
Develop a plan for assessing selected outcomes during the year
Look ahead to reporting the results
TODAY’S OBJECTIVES
Why do we assess?
What do we assess within instruction?
What do we assess as a college?
OVERVIEW OF ASSESSMENT AT CPTC
4.A.3 The institution documents, through an effective,
regular, and comprehensive system of assessment of
student achievement, that students who complete its
educational courses, programs, and degrees,
wherever offered and however delivered, achieve
identified course, program, and degree learning
outcomes. Faculty with teaching responsibilities are
responsible for evaluating student achievement of
clearly identified learning outcomes.
ACCREDITATION STANDARDS
ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING AT
CPTC
Prior To Assessment:
1.
Department mission statement
2.
List expected outcomes for your department
Annual Assessment:
1.
Select 3 outcomes to assess during the year
2.
Determine how you will assess your effectiveness in achieving the outcome
Administer your assessment
3. Report the results of your assessment
COMPONENTS OF AN ASSESSMENT
PLAN
The mission statement should be a clear and
concise representation of the program’s
purpose for being.
What are the opportunities or needs your
program exist to address?
Who is it serving?
What principles or beliefs guide your work?
WHAT IS A MISSION STATEMENT?
“We provide students with the
knowledge, skills, and values
necessary to succeed in the
workforce of today and
tomorrow.”
CPTC’S MISSION
The retail business program provides
competency-based degree and
certificate training that leads
graduates to employment in the
field of sales and marketing.
MISSION STATEMENT EXAMPLE
There are numerous examples on-line. One of
these is http://www.missionstatements.com/
If you would like to revise or rewrite your mission
statement, take a look at some others. This is
also something that you could include your
advisory committee in.
EXAMPLES OF MISSION STATEMENTS
Disney:
"We create happiness by providing the
finest in entertainment for people of
all ages, everywhere."
“FAMOUS” MISSION STATEMENTS:
Facebook:
"Facebook's mission is to give people the
power to share and make the world
more open and connected."
McDonald’s
"McDonald's vision is to be the world's
best quick service restaurant
experience. Being the best means
providing outstanding quality, service,
cleanliness, and value, so that we make
every customer in every restaurant
smile."
Tell what the student will be able to DO (in the
rest of life) with what s/he learns in the
program
Focus on what students should be able to DO
rather than merely what knowledge they
should possess as a result of the program
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
Use action verbs (behavioral verbs)
Use simple language
Describe student rather than teacher behavior
Describe learning outcome rather than learning process
Focus on the end behavior rather than on the subject matter
coverage
Make it realistic and attainable
Have it validated by colleagues
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning Outcomes Assessment began at CPTC
over 10 years ago.
Most of us know it as:
Nichols 5 Column
Model
Column 1: Mission Statement
Column 2: Intended Learning Outcome
Column 3: Assessment Criteria
Column 4: Assessment Results
Column 5: Using the results
Once the Loop is closed the cycle begins again.
NICHOL’S 5 COLUMN MODEL
TaskStream is web based system
that streamlines:
*the management of content,
*resources,
*and communication
related to learning outcomes assessment and the
accreditation process.
TASKSTREAM
It is a continuous process based on a curricular
approach that begins with a well-articulated and
expected ending.
WHAT IS LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT?
TaskStream (AMS) will serve as the interactive portal
within which learning outcomes assessment planning,
implementation, tracking and results will be centrally
located and documented for reporting.
TASKSTREAM
Developing an assessment plan with student learning outcomes
Aligning assessment measures in curriculum maps
Uploading data (e.g., in spreadsheets and tables)
Inputting assessment results (i.e., the statistics)
Documenting results
Creating action plans based on the results
Identifying resource needs to implement actions
Tracking action status
Reporting
TASKSTREAM FEATURES
TaskStream will allow us to:
• Input our data each year rather than using the paper copies of
the Nichols in the past
• We will always have access to data from many years at our
fingertips
• All programs and units data will be in electronic format
• Reports can be generated from the database saving tons of time
WHY USE TASKSTREAM?
Create or
Select
Outcomes
and
measures in
Fall quarter
Create or
Edit
Mission
Statement
Enter Assessment
Findings in Winter
quarter
BEGIN
Select
Outcomes
for the next
year in
Summer
quarter
TASKSTREAM PROCESS
Learning objects are very broad, especially at a
program level. These objective are broken
down into smaller step that we can assess or
measure.
WHAT IS A MEASURE?
EXAMPLE…
Program learning outcome: Successfully program in
two or more programming languages.
Measures, or steps to achieve this goal that can be
assessed:
Successfully program in Java
Description: Students will be evaluated on their skills on
an exam conducted in the Java (CIT142 and CIT143)
courses. Students will write a program to show their
skills in these two languages in one hour on a medium
For each measure, you will want to determine the following:
How will it be assessed?
Acceptable target: how well will the class to that is acceptable
to you? …80% of students will pass with a 70% or better
Ideal target: what is the best you would hope for?
Implementation plan: you timeline to assess this measure
Key/responsible personnel: who is responsible for
determining results?
THANKS TO THE CONTRIBUTORS, COLA TEAM!
JOYCE LOVEDAY
MABEL EDMONDS
MICHELLE SIMPKINS
KELLEY MEEUSEN
ELAINE HOLSTER
MENAKA ABRAHAM