June 15th Session Summary

We had some awesome discussions in our session today!
We looked at the assessment work that had been done at PAC Spring 10 to identify some attributes that we want to build from --
In the Core Reaffirmation Report we justified that our students had an opportunity to learn the core outcomes using the matrices that cross-walked our course outcomes to the core outcomes (we want to keep this in mind for the future and make sure that we have a mechanism in place to do this for our new gen ed assessment effort that we will launch -- an easy way that I have seen is to include the core outcome(s) in the syllabi of core courses). Another thing that we did in the Core Reaffirmation report is to use multiple measures -- CCSSE data, Program review data, Unit Planning data, High Risk Course data.
In the Written Communication Rubric and the Speech Rubric developed and used for Program Assessment this semester, we have an idea of student learning outcomes and criteria already that we want to consider for our gen ed assessement this Fall.

A second thing that we talked about were the three approaches to gen ed assessment and we pretty much ruled out the "College-wide All the Way" approach. We talked about the "Embedded Assessment" approach and the "Faculty Cluster" approach -- we seemed to be leaning toward using Faculty Clusters with Embedded Assessment.

We touched upon resources for looking at crafting Student Learning Outcomes but ran out of time to get much done on these. Tomorrow we will have the work groups start to brainstorm a student learning outcome for their competency.