Tuesday, September 8, 2009

3pm, Menard 1177

 

 

 

Members Present: Bill Bade, Aaron Berkowitz, Barbara Bernardi, Sharon Cheek, Dave Cox, Taiebeh Hosseinali, Frank Marsaglia, Chris McDonald, Hugh McNiece, Judith Nichols, Eileen Tepatti

 

Guests Present: Victor Broderick, Elaine Guthals-Carrier, Cynthia Maskey.

 

Members Not Present:  Carmen Allen, Julie Clevenger, Michelle Coakes, Claire Gordon, Cheryl Heitz, Tricia Kujawa, Russ Kuster, Mary McGee, Tina Schmohe, Susan Srbljan.

 

I.                    Motion was made and agenda was approved.

 

II.      Minutes from the April 28, 2009 meeting were tabled until next meeting. Debbie Hines is to email the last meeting minutes to all members for them to review. These minutes will be presented for approval at the October meeting.

 

III.    Next Year’s Focus

·         Frank Marsaglia reviewed the projects and activities planned for the third year of participation. He noted that the establishment of routine assessment cycles will be set with the major focus of

“Tagging” in the fall semester and standardized testing for general education and program assessment will be emphasized in the spring semester along with program/course assessment in the spring semester. 

·         An Assessment Data Review team has been created to review all the information that has been collected and determine what methods this information should be used. Eileen Tepatti, Carmen Allen, Frank Marsaglia, Janice Badgett, Taiebeh Hosseinali, Susan Srbljan, Victor Broderick, Tricia Kujawa, and Ellen Watkins make up this team. 

·         Finish the six General Education Outcomes rubrics and implement a new project called GEAR (General Education Assessment by Rubrics).

·         Continue work with the electronic portfolios. 

IV.    GEARS (General Education Assessment by Rubrics) - Taiebeh noted that work has been started on the GEARS workshops from last year. She noted that the general education outcome selected was culture and global awareness and that the faculty had been selected to participate. Information was sent out to the selected faculty and Taiebeh is still receiving some replies from this invitation. She noted that some faculty had to decline either because the class was cancelled or the faculty couldn’t think of a specific assignment to tie in with that general education outcome. The way it will work is that once the assignments are completed, the team will go in and make copies of the assignments removing the student’s names. These will be scored in small groups of faculty. The rubrics may not be a perfect fit but the majority should apply. 

 

V.      Assessment Sub-Committees for next year – Frank explained each sub-committee and mentioned who was on each committee. He asked for anyone interested in becoming active in any of these sub-committees to see him or the person/people presently on the sub-committee. 

VI.    Other Business –

·         Frank mentioned that the assessment committee may have another meeting before the next Professional Development Day. 

·         Bill Bade asked if the Data Review Team could have some data available to the faculty to help them see what information has been collected due to all their efforts which may encourage the faculty to continue participating or get others not currently participating to participate. Hugh McNiece said that there is only raw data and that it probably is not something that would bring encouragement. The information will be presented once the data team decides what to do with this info and how to present it.

·         Frank Marsaglia noted that the Assessment Academy was created about three years ago, and that there is one more year left. Once the Assessment Academy is over, then the LLCC Assessment Committee will work on its own. There most likely will be another Academy team meeting before the year is up. Those comprising of the Academy team are:

·         Eileen Tepatti mentioned an Assessment Institute that is being held in Indianapolis, IN October 25-27^th. She passed around a flyer of information and asked Debbie Hines to email the committee the link regarding this regional institute. She noted that if anyone was interested in attending, they would need to respond quickly since the deadlines are quickly approaching for the hotel and meeting reservations. She suggested replying to the email sent or let her know that they would like to attend. She noted that special professional development funds have been set aside just for assessment training or activities such as this.

·         Hugh McNiece announced that CELT’s first Brown Bag is Thurs., Sept. 10^th from 12-1pm and encouraged the group to attend. This meeting will discuss Teachers and Learning.

A motion was made and approved to adjourn the meeting at approximately 4:20pm.

 

 

 

 

The meeting adjourned at 4:20pm.