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Assessment at

Assessment at. Eva Fern ández Director, Center for Teaching & Learning Associate Professor, Linguistics & Communication Disorders Making Transfer Connections Seminar on Assessment May 6, 2011 | LaGuardia Community College. eHandout : http ://qc.cuny.edu/?id=XQ7H. What we’re doing.

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  1. Assessment at Eva Fernández Director, Center forTeaching& LearningAssociate Professor, Linguistics & Communication Disorders Making Transfer Connections Seminar on Assessment May 6, 2011 | LaGuardia Community College eHandout: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=XQ7H

  2. What we’re doing • 4 divisions, 49 departments or programs, 13 research centers, ~600 ft + ~700 pt faculty, all to serve 20,000 students • Departmental, divisional, college-wide assessment activities • Strategic-plan-related activities • Programmatic assessments, e.g., of FYI Communities (some experimental, some driven by operational needs)

  3. Who’s involved Who isn’t involved? • Departmental curriculum committees: 49 departments or programs, ~150-300 faculty • Senate committees • Undergraduate Curriculum: 5 fac, 3 studts, ex-officios • General Education Advisory: 6 faculty, ex-officios • Graduate Curriculum: 3 fac, 2 studts, ex-officios • Outcomes Assessment Committee: 13 faculty, 1 staff advocates and distributes “best practices” • Soon to be formed Committee on Student Retention • Etc.

  4. Our timeline • Middle States:next periodic review report due in 2012 • Academic Program Reviews: departmental self-studies every 10 years • Specialized accreditation processes:Education Unit and Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, independent timelines

  5. Plans to use ePortfolio • Current prolific users, to assess coursework or programmatically: • Elementary & Early Childhood Education • Music • Graduate School of Library & Information Sciences • Physics • Secondary Education & Youth Services • Future users: 20 faculty currently in training • Under consideration: subset of English 110 courses

  6. Our competencies and their role in assessment • Core Areas of Knowledge and Inquiry • Reading Literature, Appreciating and Participating in the Arts, Cultures and Values, Analyzing Social Structures, Natural Science • Global Contexts • US, European, World, Pre-Industrial • Critical Academic Abilities • Writing, Mathematics, Quantitative Reasoning, Foreign Language • Capstone or Synthesis

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