Assessment Council: Review and Discussion

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Assessment CouncilReview and Discussion
Department Outcomes Assessments

• October 24, 2008
• Pat Hulsebosch

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A Look Ahead

• November 7 and/or November 14
• CLAST and GSPP Fellows will be leading an
  outcomes-?assessment review of syllabi
• Department Chairs and Assessment Coords
• Next scheduled meeting November 7
• November 7 CANCELLED
• Next meeting of Assessment Council November 21
  -- Summarizing assessment results
• How to accomplish that?
• What might it look like?

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• FROM CUE/CGE Syllabus Feedback Checklist
• Additional Feedback on the writing of the
  SLOs_____  The course SLOs represent a tight
  list of important global achievementsnot a list
  of every trivial skill needed to accomplish these
  achievements. 
• _____  The course SLOs are written with
  specific, explicit observable action verbs,
  commonly referred to as Bloom's Verbs.  (See
  attached resource handout.)
• _____  The course SLOs have assessment methods
  connected with them, which match the outcome
  being assessed, e.g., essay, presentation,
  report, portfolio, but not "teacher
  observation."
• _____  Each assessment names the method of
  assessment or scoring tool, e.g. rubric,
  checklist.
• _____  Each assessment names the scoring
  criteria, which align with the SLO.

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Survey MonkeyInitial Highlights (29 responses)

• Higher rated for INVOLVEMENT (Section 1)
• Higher rated Moderate or Extensive
• Assessment Handbook
• Discussions with colleagues
• Sample rubrics
• Higher rated for VALUE ( Section II)
• Higher rated Moderate or Extensive
• Conferences
• Assessment Handbook
• Discussions with colleagues

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What Assessment Professional Development Would
You LIKE
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Future Assessment Council/Development

• Good website on how other institutions are
  assessing
• Peer presentations on what others have done and
  what theyre finding (grouped by content area)
• Assessment results from GSR
• Biology
• Departmental workshops tailored to fit Dept needs
  
• Conferences
• An assessment conference at Gallaudet

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Program Outcomes AssessmentsReview and
Discussion

• Sit at a table with colleagues with common
  interests in terms of assessment
• Exchange your assessment with ONE colleague to
  start with
• Use the Outcomes Assessment Checklist to
• Discuss outcomes assessment development process
• Give feedback
• Summarize progress on outcomes assessment (to
  give to Pat)
• Exchange your assessment with another colleague
  if time
• NO ASSESSMENT?
• Meet with colleagues to problem solve moving the
  process forward