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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Olin Conference Room, 8:30am Meeting Minutes Members present: Aileen Buslig (Chair), Kay Schneider, Michael Wohlfeil, Gregg Muilenburg, Haimeng Zhang, Lynne Isaacson, Jasi O’Connor, Whitney Frahm, Marion Askegaard 1. Discussion of the committee charges: a. The first charge to the Assessment Committee is to sponsor workshops on assessment and/or lead discussions on departmental assessment. Kay sent us a list of past workshops. It was suggested that we postpone all workshops related to departmental assessment until we have evaluated the department assessment annual reports. However, it was further suggested that our focus right now is/should be on first year core assessment rather than departmental assessment. This would be a bit of a modification of our charges. It was felt that SCC would probably be accepting of this. Further discussion lead to the questioning of who would/should be in charge of scheduling and planning assessment related to the core curriculum. It was pointed out that the HLC Assessment Academy has been formed to do that. It was agreed that we leave that to the Academy. The question of who is really in charge of overseeing assessment of the core came up. This committee feels that it would be very beneficial for everyone involved to know this. Thus, this is a question to be taken up by the HLC Assessment Academy (which meets starting in November). Coming from this, a possible workshop topic for the Assessment Committee would be something related to assessing critical reasoning ability. At this point no workshops were scheduled. b. The second and final charge to the Assessment Committee is to oversee preparation to assess the new Core Curriculum. The committee unanimously decided that we needed clarification of the terminology, “oversee preparation”. Aileen is pursuing that. 2. Feedback on enrichment request documents: The committee felt these were legitimate requests, particularly in light of the fact that the assessment mini-grant fund is about depleted with two remaining proposals to be handled. The enrichment requests are intended to help take the pressure off mini-grant funds for items such as standardized tests for on-going departmental assessment. It was discussed that if we do not receive enrichment funds we will need to revise our guidelines for receiving mini-grant funds or find other resources for core assessment. It was suggested and agreed upon by the committee that an alternative to funding department “get-togethers” to talk about their assessment, we encourage more departments to sign up for summer assessment workshops. In which case, two summer workshops may need to be scheduled to better accommodate interested departments. 3. Compare and discuss rubric application to establish inter-rater reliability: The committee was to have evaluated the English Department assessment report using the established rubric. It was noted that by receiving last year’s evaluation report and the Department Annual Reports data sheet, our evaluation of a department report could be skewed. Discussion of this issue indicated that it could be good and bad influence. However, it was generally felt that past information would be very helpful in trying to remain very positive toward department assessment. The committee continued as a group to evaluate the English Department assessment report. 4. Distribution of department assessment plans among committee members: Pairs of committee members were formed (beginning with member proximity). Kay and Aileen will assign and distribute department assessment reports to the appropriate pairings of committee members. Pairings will not be assigned their own departments. *No future Assessment Committee meetings were scheduled as the committee will be getting together in their pairs to evaluate department assessment reports. Meeting adjourned: 9:33am Marion Askegaard, Recorder |
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