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General Education Assessment Cycle. Gia Quesada (Dept. of Marketing and Supply Chain Management) Karen Smail (Dept. of Health and Human Performance) Shawn Morrison (Dept. of French, Francophone and Italian Studies) . Why Assessment?. “In God we trust, all others… must use data”
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General Education Assessment Cycle GiaQuesada (Dept. of Marketing and Supply Chain Management) Karen Smail (Dept. of Health and Human Performance) Shawn Morrison (Dept. of French, Francophone and Italian Studies)
Why Assessment? “In God we trust, all others… must use data” Williams Edwards Deming (1900-1993) Plan-Do-Check-Act
Establish Objectives • Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) • SLO were developed at faculty workshops held in early 2012.
Align Objectives to Curriculum • 2013 the General Education Committee went through the recertification of all general education courses. • Courses with GenEd Status
Align Objectives to Curriculum • Syllabi submitted for Fall 2013 cycle: 95% • Departments submitted all syllabi by Jan 25th for Spring 14: 91.10% (missing Express courses)
Systematically Measure Objectives • Signature assignments submitted for Fall 2013 courses using OAKS • 95.43% of sections submitted signature assignments • Assessment Reading Groups (ARGs) met on January 6th-7th
Analyze and Share Results • Each department will have an ARG representative in their meetings to share results and suggestions for improvement • ARGs will be meeting on February 14th to review results from Fall data and report on Department meetings • ARGs will make recommendations to each area. • Results will be posted on March 15th in OAKS and Academic Affairs General Education website
Use Results for Program Improvements • Action plans were generated in the January 6th-7th meeting by the ARGs. • ARGs will make recommendations for next assessment cycle. • ARGs will report back to all departments.
On the Road of Empoweringour Faculty • Assessment Institute in Indianapolis • 4 faculty members • SACS-COC Annual Meeting in Atlanta • 2 faculty members • AAC&U General Education Assessment Meeting in Portland • 5 faculty members
ARG Members Social Sciences Writing (ENGL) Clair Curtis (POLI) Amy Kolak (PSYC) Kevin Keenan (URST) Barbara Borg (ANTH) Bill Russell Chris Warnick Betsy Baker Cassie Thomas Math/Logic History • Scott Poole • Lisa Covert • Rich Bodek • Bryan Ganaway • IanaAnguelova • Jason Howell • Liz Jurisich • Andrew Prseworski
ARG Members Humanities Natural Science Language Miranda McManus (BIOL) Richard Lavrich (CHEM) Steve Jaume (GEOL) Linda Jones (PHYS) Emily Beck (SPAN) Devon Hanahan (SPAN) Shawn Morrison (FREN) Lisa Signori (FREN) • Larry Krasnoff (PHIL) • Jon Hale (EDFS) • Mark Landis (THTR) • David Moscowitz (COMM) • Phyllis Jestice (HIST) • Laura Turner (THTR)