EL CAMINO COLLEGE

Office of the Vice President – Academic Affairs

NOTES – 6 April 2009

Assessment of Learning Committee (ALC)

Present: J. Simon, L. Gallucci, C. Gold, R. Lewis, H. Storms, K. Holt, D. Maruyama,

D. Goldberg, I. Graff

I. Call to Order

The meeting was called to order at 2:38 p.m.

II. Assessment of Student Learning Week

A final schedule was completed for Student Learning Week which will be held in the Distance Education conference room. A few changes were made from original schedule including 1½ hour workshops daily and training workshop on Friday from 8:30 am-1:00 pm. Specific workshops Monday through Thursday include: Monday & Tuesday – forms; Wednesday and Thursday – evaluating assessment proposals. Breakfast and lunch will be served at the May 1 workshop. At the May 1 workshop, forms and rubric will be a part of the event among other things. Other items covered will be rubric, forms, deadlines, Q&A, core competency, Recommendation 2, role of division committee and new roles, and setting up an assessment of core competencies. Staff Development will send a calendar. J. Simon requests ALC reps to send a list of people on the division SLO committee. She has received the information from Humanities, Natural Sciences and Behavioral & Social Sciences. J. Simon will remind deans about including CEC representatives.

Monday, April 27 / Tuesday, April 28 / Wednesday, April 29 / Thursday, April 30 / Friday, May 1
Forms Workshop
1:30p – 3:00p / Forms Workshop
12:30p – 2:00p / Rubric Evaluating Your Assessments Workshop
2:30p – 4:00p / Rubric Evaluating Your Assessments Workshop
12:30p – 2:00p / Training Workshop for Division SLO Committees
8:30a – 1:00p
(for faculty groups to learn about forms, deadlines and processes) / (for faculty groups to learn about forms, deadlines and processes) / (for faculty to learn about our rubric for evaluating assessment proposals) / (for faculty to learn about our rubric for evaluating assessment proposals)
Personnel:
Harrison Storms
Donna Grogan
Jenny Simon
Linda Gallucci / Personnel:
Donna Grogan
Darrell Thompson
Lars Kjeseth
Linda Gallucci / Personnel:
Claudia Striepe
Donna Grogan
Rebecca Bergeman (2:30-3:30)
Jenny Simon
Ray Lewis
Linda Gallucci / Personnel:
Kelly Holt
Donna Grogan
Lars Kjeseth
Linda Gallucci / Personnel:
Claudia Striepe
Kelly Holt (?)
Jenny Simon
Lars Kjeseth
Linda Gallucci

III. Rubric for Evaluating Assessment Proposals

L. Gallucci, C. Gold, and J. Simon worked on the rubric. Language was made a little less absolute (good start column). D. Goldberg suggest to change title to Rubric Guidelines for Evaluating Assessment Proposals (replace Rubric to Guidelines). The guidelines should be used for the team to use whether the assessment plan meets the standards. J. Simon will make revisions and leave as “draft” at the rubric workshops. It was also suggested to change rubric workshop to “Evaluating Your Assessments.”

IV. Updated List of Upcoming Deadlines

Deadline dates from June 2009 through June 2010 were reviewed. The deadline dates will be left as is for now, but with the possibility of linking the deadlines to program review and course review cycles. Each course must be assessed at least twice per course review cycle; each program SLO must be assessed at least once per program review cycle. Some departments have established timelines using the current deadlines, so it was agreed to stay the course for now. We will start to clarify the fact that these deadlines may be considered more as guidelines than hard and fast rules. This makes it possible for programs to negotiate a bit if these deadlines don’t make sense.

V. Leadership Succession Plan

Will be discussed at a future meeting.

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