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Meeting Minutes
Members present: Aileen Buslig (Chair), Kay Schneider,
Jasi O’Connor, Lynne Isaacson, Michael Wohlfeil, Haimeng Zhang, Marion Askegaard.
Absent: Gregg Muilenburg, Whitney Frahm.
1. Review of our charges for 2006-2007
Assessment Committee:
Provides oversight and evaluation of student learning and development. Reports
analyses of aggregate assessment results to the Curriculum Coordinating
Committee.
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Sponsor workshops on assessment and/or lead discussions on
departmental assessment
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Oversee preparation to assess new Core Curriculum.
- Brief report on success of March 7-8 workshop,
“Completing the Assessment Cycle” – The committee felted that the March 8th
(Thursday) session was particularly well attended. There were approximately
25-30 in attendance for the two sessions. Those committee members who
attended the Thursday session also felt that the diversity of the
departments that presented and the range of assessment procedures shared was
very interesting.
- Reminder/discussion about summer faculty Assessment
Workshops: There will be two Summer Assessment Workshops, May 7-8 (M, T) and
June 19-20 (T, W). The scheduling of these workshops was based on faculty
feedback from previous workshops.
- Report from the (HLC Assessment Academy attendees)
sub-committee about assessment “gaps”… how well do current assessment
activities match the Goals for Liberal Learning for core
curriculum?: The sub-committee has been working on identifying the “gaps”.
Michael reported that there are really only a few. The sub-committee will
meet in May to put together suggestions for closing those “gaps”. Kay gave a
couple of examples of the “gaps” that have been identified. She indicated
that we do a lot of first year and senior year assessment, but not much
during a student’s sophomore and junior years. She also noted that we need
to implement more direct methods of assessment (we do a lot of surveying….).
Kay and Gregg are also working with St.Bens/St.Johns to secure a grant
through the Teagle Foundation to help with the assessment of liberal
learning.
- Other items related to core curriculum assessment:
Assessment of the core will be phased in as the curriculum is phased in.
There are currently a lot of changes in assessment being discussed at the
federal level. It is felt that we need to just be patient and wait to see
what is established before making any major changes at this level. Kay and
Mark Krejci will be attending the HLC meeting at the end of April.
2. Discussion of Spanish
Department’s application of assessment mini grant: this request again brought
up the need for the Assessment Committee to establish more concrete guidelines
for the mini-grant funds. The particular issues that need clarification include
how much of the awarded funds should be used on meals (ie. Should specific
dollar amounts be predetermined by the Assessment Committee?...), and should
mini grant funds be used to support yearly departmental assessment
activities/tools (ie. Language oral proficiency assessments that could be built
into the yearly department budget…). The Assessment Committee will consider such
clarifications this fall.
3. “Assessment Day” motion:
This motion will be put on the Assessment Committee agenda next fall. There
needs to be discussions to consider whether to assess the core curriculum only
on this day, or include department specific assessment as well, and what format
and language will likely get through the Faculty Senate. The Assessment
Committee will bring a proposal (motion) for the Assessment Day to the Faculty
Senate.
Meeting Adjourned: 9:23am
Next Meeting: Fall 2007
Recorder: Marion Askegaard
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