Ac Minutes 10-23-08

Entire Assessment Committee Meeting Minutes October 23, 2008 3:00-5:00 in Room 3603 Jane Reynolds ran meeting, Co-Chair Minutes taken by Stephanie Owen, Recorder Total of 17members attended meeting I. Approval of last meeting minutes • So move…Jane Reynolds moved to approve minutes • Seconded by Lois Collins • Unanimous vote cast to approve minutes • After Executive Board approve of minutes, Stephanie Owen will post to blog for everyone to view so they review prior to large group meetings II. By-Laws • Have been approved and passed onto Administration III. Feedback on Assessment Day • Everyone felt it was a good experience and it was a fun time • So move…Ali Khan moved to have assessment day next semester too • Seconded by Edna Boone • Unanimous vote to approve having Assessment Day next semester • David St. John wondered if it wouldn’t be enough to have assessment day in Spring 2009 and Summer 2009 and evaluate its effectiveness to determine if we should continue to have Assessment Day on a semester basis or a yearly basis after the initial first year • Michael Callon mentioned all Assessment Day Committee members and Theater faculty participants will be given a certificate of appreciation IV. Nuts & Bolds of Post-test • Wondered if faculty need to be reminded via email about post-test week • Elaborate discussion on how some directors are observing classes and noticing instructors are not using active learning and CATS in their classes. Wonder why this is the case and where the disconnect could be that students don’t seem (or aren’t) more engaged. • Some felt it was difficult to avoid pure powerpoint and lecture because noting many students are not coming to class prepared so cannot take the opportunity to do anything else • David St. John mentioned that his class is more engaged but not doing better on tests • Wondered if there shouldn’t be an Assessment Training workshop during the next Faculty Development Week for those unsure how to incorporate active learning and CATS in their classroom teaching • Chairs need to be encouraging more adjuncts to get involved in assessing their students V. Chicago Area Assessment Group Meeting (CAAG) Assessment Committee Meeting 10-23-08 Minutes taken by Stephanie Owen

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Report out by Jane Reynolds who attended the meeting, which was held at University of Illinois, Chicago. Next meeting will be at Robert Morris • Noted that most of the members of the CAAG were administrators and deans and not faculty driven as we are • Running into common issues with assessment • Many of the members were impressed with what we’re doing at MXC with our SLP • Discussed new software that will help to store data with a discussion following about needing to determine who will have access to the data, if it will be kept online, in a book, etc. Basically, we need to determine how much sharing do we want to do • Also discussed how certain software will score SLOs and have it available to students who may use it to determine if it’s a school they’d want to attend • Lois Collins felt this could be dangerous, and we need to be careful about how the information is being used to exclude rather than include certain schools over another. Important to realize what we want to measure and how we measure Department Evaluation Plan • Everyone felt it would be nice if the Committee developed a template that departments can use to create their department plan • Asked if it would help to have the Committee monitor department process • Everyone felt this would be a good idea

Meeting adjourned at 4:10

Assessment Committee Meeting 10-23-08 Minutes taken by Stephanie Owen

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