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Assessment
Committee Minutes
Date: October 28, 1999
Present: Marsha Hopkins, Georgia Gudykunst, Jan Eygendaal, Judy Haberman,
Marian Gibney, Edlyn Soderman, Marian Tadano, Billie Hughes, Bill
Coppola, Yi Qin.
Marsah Hopkins chaired the meeting for Brent Jameson.
Information items:
Marian Tadano distributed information on the April 1-4, 2000 meeting
of NCA in Chicago. She encouraged members of the committee to consider
going. She also mentioned the Assessment Forum of AAHE in June. The
assessment budget can support faculty travel to these meetings. Contact
Marian Tadano if you are interested.
Documenting our work:
Billie will be working to document on the web the work we are doing.
She will pull together historical documents. Members of the committee
will need to be providing information to her on the current work being
done in assessment. The following lists areas and roles:
· Learner outcomes-Dave Gorman and Betsy Frank as chairs of
the numeracy and writing committee will need to provide copies of
the outcomes and assessment instrument as they are developed.
· Structure and participation-Brent Jameson will provide this
· Meetings and events-the chair of each committee (ESL, Writing,
Numeracy, and Assessment) need to provide a list of meeting dates.
This includes all meeting dates for this year. This will document
for future report writing the meeting schedules of our different committees.)
· Minutes of meetings-recorders of each of the committees need
to provide copies of the committee meetings to Billie
· Newsletters-We need someone to head this up. Marian Gibney
is willing to work with someone else on this project. We need to have
one newsletter out per semester.
· Cycles of Assessment-Georgia Gudykunst. This will include
timelines.
· Documents-any committee developing documents need to provide
copies
· Program evaluation-Brent Jameson
· Institutional effectiveness-Georgia Gudykunst
Focusing committee work
Marian Gibney suggested we look at the Cross and Angelo Teaching Goals
Inventory as a tool for helping us focus the development of student
outcomes. Marian Tadano indicated that she has asked Judy Boschult
to investigate the possibility of bring in Tom Angelo to work with
classroom assessment techniques.
Outcomes and processes for the Cindy Lynch workshop
* Marian Gibney to provide a copy of the Teaching Goals Inventory
to Marian Tadano who will provide copies and suggestions to the writing
and numeracy committees.
* Marian Tadano is contacting Cindy Lynch regarding working the Teaching
Goals inventory into our outcome development process.
* Numeracy and writing committees will hopefully be able to meet once
before the Cindy Lynch workshop to explore outcomes and discuss the
basic skill levels.
* At the beginning of the workshop, we will review our processes and
discuss our direction and goals.
* After the overview, we will break into subgroups (numeracy and writing)
to develop first level outcomes
The goal is to have one or two outcomes per area at the basic level
(100 level) at the end of the workshop.
Marian will be meeting with the chairs of numeracy and writing to
discuss the process for developing outcomes.
Assessment Clearinghouse
Brent Jameson will be working with the library to create a collection
of assessment resources.
Presentation to PCPC
Georgia Gudykunst and Judy Boschult will be presenting to PCPC the
same presentation they did at the board meeting. Assessment is an
important part of planning process and PCPC needs so understand how
our assessment processes fit into the college planning efforts.
Submitted by Billie Hughes
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