Members
Present:
Marilyn Guy, Betty Larson, Mary F.D. Larson, Kathie Leeper,
Ruth Lumb, Viann Pederson,
Comments
from departments regarding memo seeking assessment coordinators: There has been a bit of resistance to the
idea of appointing a departmental assessment coordinator in some
departments. However, the list of
coordinators is growing and division chairs will be asked to help us recruit in
cases where the department
Annual
report guidelines: The annual report guidelines
were revised to include the following instructions:
2. Describe your
department/program’s plan to assess these student learning outcomes. The plan should identify the specific methods
for data collection and analysis and will ideally include both direct and
indirect measures of student learning.
The plan should also include a timeline for implementation.
3. Identify the assessment
activities that your program has used in the past year.
4. Describe how your program is
using assessment results to improve student learning.
Kay
will develop a handout, including samples from current department reports, as
an attachment to these report guidelines.
Report
to Senate: Mike distributed a draft of
a report for submission to Senate at the February 16 meeting. Comments are welcome.
Summer
workshops: The committee would like to
propose summer workshop(s) as a way of encouraging faculty to work on
development and implementation of assessment plans. Proposals for workshops are due in the Dean’s
office on February 9. A draft of text is
below; comments are welcome.
The
Assessment Committee is offering summer workshops to enable faculty to develop
and implement their departmental assessment plans. The workshop will be tailored so that all faculty may participate, regardless of where they are in the
assessment process.
Monthly
workshops: This will be a discussion item at the next
meeting.
Next
Meeting: The next meeting is scheduled for
Respectfully
submitted,