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Assessment Committee Meeting Minutes January 22, 2009 3:00-5:00 in Room 3603 Members Present: Claire Stuart-Quintanilla, Jane Reynolds, Marietta McDuffy, Hope Essien, Stephanie Owen, Lisa Owens, Michael Callon, Lois Collins, Nelly Calub, Sohee Jon, Beverly Anderson, Boniface Ekpenyong, Tracey Hudson, Nelida Metio, Ali Khan, Ahmed Khan, Pierre Harges, Sheila Wicks, Luc Elie, David St. John, Edna Boone Minutes taken by Stephanie Owen, Recorder I. Sign-in Roll Call II. Department representatives • Representatives from each department/program is as followed: Math: Hope Essien (Chair) and David St. John Respiratory Care: Jane Reynolds (Director) and Ijaz Biology: Lois Collins and Sheila Wicks English: Michael Callon (Chair), Lisa Owens, and Mary Beth Jone Nursing: Carmen Hovanec, Beverly Anderson, and Nelly Calub Physics/Chemistry: Edna Boone, Joshua Oladipo Library: Stephanie Owen, Fumilayo Rufai Surgical Technology: Marietta McDuffy, Neelida Metio Renal Technology: Ali Khan, Ahmed Khan Political Science: Claire Stuart Quintanilla III. Update on Faculty Resource Room • There are some issues with the electricity and hooking up the computers • Computers are here and furniture have been ordered • Will continue to meet in room 3603 until we hear we can move into resource room IV. Assessment Committee elections for officers • Will be voting for new officials in April. Each officer serves a mandatory one year term • Guidelines for consideration: Must be on the committee for at least a year. • Open positions are: Chair, Co-Chair, Team leader, Recorder, Public relations V. SLP update • Claire has a list of those who submitted SLP post-tests from Dean Javior. They are Math, English, Biology, Physical Science, Chemistry, Social Science, and CIS/Business • Renal swears they turned theirs in to their Director, as well as Mortuary Science • Respiratory Care and Phlebotomy have their scores but need to turn them in • Nursing has them but not scored yet • No results for Pharmacy, Physician’s Assistant, CNA, and Radiology • Would like to develop a survey asking what could have been done differently to ensure greater numbers? Why did only ½ of the results get turned in? • Some problems and issues: Asked: What went wrong with the process? Some of the issues were: Different post-test scoring issues whereby administration (?) used different procedures for post from prêt-test; graders did not get instructions on who/how to turn in the post-test scoring or turning the scores in; felt instructions Assessment Committee Meeting 01-22-09 Minutes taken by Stephanie Owen

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needed to be written down – need a better “script” of what needs to be done, as well as how to administer; there was some confusion on the rubric; other people just had difficulty looking for the form. • Claire asked if those programs that didn’t administer the post-test, could they still administer the test now? It would be the same students since they are all in cohort format. • Is it possible to administer if we explain the lag time, would the data still be valid especially if you administer the same question to the same cohort • Some members felt it couldn’t be done. You could only compare those scores with those administered now rather than those that were turned in last semester. • Action item: Ask Dean Javior if this is a possibility • Programs that administered pre-test, but not post-test include: Surgical technology, Physician’s Assistant, Pharmacy, EMT… • Need to double check with Dean Javior • Action item: Confirm with Dean Javior who hasn’t turned them in. • Need to address why there was a breakdown in communication Department Assessment Plan • It was determined that full committee meetings will be working meetings • Claire reminded everyone that we told HLC that we would have department/program plans done by Spring 2009 and implemented by Fall 2009 so we need to move on this immediately • For the working meetings, departments/programs will work in the following groups: Social Science, English, and Library; Respiratory Care, Child Development, Radiology, and Renal; Surgical Tech, EMT/Paramedics, Phlebotomy, and Business; Math, Physical Science/Chemistry, and Biology; and Nursing, Mortuary Science, Physician’s Assistant, CNA, and Pharmacy • Themes Claire found in previous department assessment plans were: 1) most plans were too global and broad; 2) departments and programs don’t talk about assessment within their own department or program but on a general level; 3) did not focus their plan on current courses; 4) most of the plans were just plans on how to plan an assessment plan and not actually plans; 5) many of the ones she looked at didn’t have any SLOs; and 6) no one has any specific assessment tools they plan on using. • Discussion on needing a place to save/archive syllabi. Lois does not want them emailed to her. Discussed possibility giving access to Department Chairs and Program Directors/Deans to the Assessment Committee blackboard and posting all the syllabi there. Adjournment • Meeting adjourned at 4:50.

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