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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Olin Conference Room, 8:30am Meeting Minutes Members present: Aileen Buslig (Chair), Kay Schneider, Haimeng Zhang, Lynne Isaacson, Michael Wohlfeil, Marion Askegaard. Absent: Jasi O’Connor, Gregg Muilenburg, Whitney Frahm 1. Summary of department annual reports: Kay handed out information reflecting how the Assessment Committee had evaluated department annual reports. It was particularly noted that there were fewer departments with Undeveloped status then in 2005. In addition, more departments had achieved Exemplary status in the category of Action/Response (use of assessment data to improve student learning). 2. Follow-up on the HLC Assessment Academy (Kay and Mike had attended): Assessment of the Core Curriculum is to proceed. The Assessment Committee’s responsibilities toward this process will be to review what is currently being done and determine its fit with the new/current curriculum (ie. Do the current assessment activities match the Goals for Liberal Learning?). Kay supplied the committee with a packet of information including the Goals for Liberal Learning as well as current college-wide assessment activities and proposed major assessment activities. It was suggested that a sub-committee consisting of HLC Academy attendees begin to evaluate/determine gaps in this assessment project, and report back to the Assessment Committee as a whole. Summer work may involve developing a draft of recommendations for filling in any of the assessment gaps. 3. Plan workshops on assessment: Workshops highlighting the Action/Response category of our assessment criteria will be held Wednesday, March 7th from 3:00-4:00pm and Thursday, March 8th from 12:00noon-1:00pm. Departments who demonstrated an Exemplary status in that category will be asked to share their work during those workshops. 4. Continue discussion of a college-wide “Assessment Day”: Kay indicated that there has been a very poor response rate from seniors to participate in the current MAPP (Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress) and CLA (Collegiate Learning Assessment) assessment activities. Given that, it seems even more pertinent that an “Assessment Day” be implemented. The assessment committee’s consensus would be to propose it as a calendar change for the 2008-2009 academic year (contingent on faculty having constitutional authority to provide input on calendar changes). Since fall has no study day, but spring semester does, we thought it would be possible to maintain the current number of class days in spring by "trading" study day for assessment day in spring. The Assessment Committee would put together a proposal/motion and submit it to the Faculty Senate Coordinating Committee. Kay volunteered to draft a proposal for the Assessment Committee to consider. 5. Meeting Adjourned: 9:28am 6. Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 13th, 8:30am, Olin Conference Room Recorder: Marion Askegaard |
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