Assessment at ECC: Past, Present and Future

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Assessment at ECC Past, Present and Future

• Your Assessment Committee 2007-2008
• Jessica Carpenter, Chair Sharon Baker
• Rose DiGerlando Leticia Garcia
• Linda Hartley Peggy Heinrich
• Tim Kaar Tina Leverenzzi
• Linda McEwan Shawn Mikulay
• Michele Noel Mary OSullivan
• Mary Perkins Elaine Reid
• Jill Russell Manuel Salgado
• Nicole Scherger Carol Szabo
• Susan Timm Lisa Wiehle

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Why is assessment important?

• To guide our program, course and student service
  development in a systematic way
• To determine what our students have learned
• To determine what our students have not learned
• To improve our students learning

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Assessment at ECC Past

• General Education outcomes revised
• Program-level outcomes established
• Some course-level outcomes established
• Some program-level outcomes measured for every
  program
• Some course-level outcomes measured for at least
  one course in each program

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Assessment at ECC Present

• Programs should have completed the Annual Summary
  Report of Program/Services, available at the
  assessment committee website via e-net
• Every program should have completed an Annual
  Summary Report of Course for at least one course

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Annual Summary Report cont.
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Three Years of Data

• General Education outcome data have been
  collected for the past three years in the areas
  of Reading, Writing (essay CAAP), Quantitative
  Skills (Math Science), Critical Thinking
  (CCTST), Information Technological Literacy and
  Global Awareness
• Today we will focus on Reading, Writing and
  Quantitative Skills data.

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Data on Writing Outcomes (essay)
    Year Year Year Year
    2005 2006 2007 Total
Average score Average score 2.70 3.27 3.00 3.00
Total writing samples Total writing samples 128 150 115 393
1 Unacceptable, failing 10.9 1.3 8.0 6.4
2 Weak in composition, just barely passing 34.4 22.1 20.4 25.6
3 Sound in composition, few deviations 35.9 37.6 38.9 37.4
4 Solid in all areas, fully developed 11.7 26.2 29.2 22.3
5 Strong in all areas, particularly distinguished 7.0 12.8 3.5 8.2
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Data on Writing Outcomes (CAAP)
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Data on Reading Outcomes
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Data on Quantitative Outcomes
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Summary of CAAP Results
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CAAP Results by Number of Hours
CAAP Results, 2005 -- 2007 Cumulative Earned Hours Cumulative Earned Hours Cumulative Earned Hours Cumulative Earned Hours
  15/less 16 - 30 31 - 45 46
Writing Skills Percentile 43.1 47.5 53.8 52.5
Writing Usage/Mechanics Percentile 48.3 49.8 59.4 56.2
Writing Rhetoric Percentile 44.7 50.3 54.1 54.1
Math Percentile 54.0 65.3 70.3 67.2
Math Basic Algebra Percentile 58.1 66.9 73.4 68.8
Math College Algebra Percentile 54.9 64.5 66.6 68.6
Reading Percentile 47.8 53.0 61.2 55.9
Reading Arts/Lit Percentile 53.0 57.0 62.4 58.6
Reading Social Studies/Science Percentile 47.5 54.0 63.3 58.6
Scientific Percentile 57.1 56.8 67.3 64.5
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Assessment at ECC Future

• It is time to close the loop on General
  Education assessment and devise strategies to
  improve
• The assessment committee will be forming
  taskforces in the areas of reading, writing and
  quantitative skills first, other areas will
  follow.
• We need YOU to assist us in this endeavor!
• Expect to see focus groups and other activities
  to bring the campus together to tackle these
  issues