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Tuesday, November
21, 2006
Olin Conference
Room, 8:30am
Meeting Minutes
Members present: Aileen Buslig (Chair), Kay Schneider,
Haimeng Zhang, Lynne Isaacson, Jasi O’Connor, Marion Askegaard. Absent: Michael
Wohlfeil, Gregg Muilenburg, Whitney Frahm
- Update on Senate Coordinating Committee’s second
charge for the Assessment Committee in 2006-2007:
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Oversee preparation to assess new Core Curriculum.
From Heidi Manning, our SCC rep:
Here is some clarification I got from the Dean on
the committee charge you asked about.
“Their role is to work with
Kay and Gregg in terms of advice and to review the results as they come in.
They are not responsible for making sure the assessment occurs and the data will
also be reviewed by those teaching in the various areas of the new core.”
Discussion of
this charge was limited, but included a statement that suggested the Assessment
Academy (to be held next week) may help define this charge even further.
- Discuss ideas for workshops on assessment:
- Ideas based on reviews of department assessment
reports could include determining linkage or pointing out differences
between department goals and learning outcomes, and encouraging better
use of assessment results/data.
- It was also suggested that the Assessment
Committee should revisit ideas for workshops after the Assessment
Academy as specific topics may come up during that assembly.
- Kay indicated that the Dean’s Dinners have been
well attended and some very good conversation (regarding assessment???)
has occurred.
- Feedback on progress toward completion of the
Assessment Committee responses to department annual assessment reports:
- We will attempt to have the department responses
completed by the end of the semester so they can be sent to the
respective departments at the beginning of second semester, as was the
schedule last year.
- Kay distributed a copy of the 2005-2006 cover
letter to have the committee discussion additions/changes. Changes will
include an emphasis to better use assessment results/data as the HLC
will also be looking at this. Statements informing departments about
upcoming workshops and the status of assessment mini grants will also be
added.
- Discuss the possibility of a college-wide “Assessment
Day”:
- This comes partly from a concern about how
students (particularly this year…) are getting bombarded with surveys
and other assessment requests from the college as a whole.
- Kay is envisioning suspending classes for half a
day. Students would spend approximately two hours involved with college
assessment activities and two hours with department specific assessment
activities.
- Discussion items included; incentives and
disincentives for getting students involved, involving all levels of
students (Fr., So., Jr., Sr.), spring versus fall semester, day of the
week, student burn-out if they are involved with four hours of
assessment, surveying departments about how they would use the
department assessment time, getting feedback from division/department
chairs (from division meetings), planning an Assessment Day would be
timely with implementation of the new core curriculum.
- The Assessment Committee would have to bring a
proposal for an “Assessment Day” to the Faculty Senate for approval.
This was not discussed any further.
- The “Assessment Day” item will be revisited at a
time when Gregg is present.
- Aileen (Chair) requested the committee send her
available times for second semester so she could schedule future meetings.
Meeting adjourned: 9:30am
Recorder: Marion Askegaard
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