June 29th Meeting Summary

This meeting was spent reviewing a proposal of an overall plan for accomplishing gen ed assessment Fall 10 and Spring 11 with a focus on Fall 10. A sampling plan was also reviewed.
Here are the decisions that we made:
- we will use generic objectives and rubrics created by the assessment team this summer to assess Communication Skills, Teamwork, and Social Responsibility. All aspects of the rubric will be created by the assessment team this summer including the outcomes and the descriptions.
- faculty from selected sections of courses will be asked to dedicate an an existing assignment to serve the dual purpose of a course grade as well as assessing a competency or competencies (embedded assessment)
- the student artifacts for each competency will be assessed by an inter-disciplinary team of faculty (for instance, if there are 400 artifacts that need to be assessed in written communication, then 20 teams of 2 faculty each from a variety of disciplines would be assigned 20 artifacts to assess).
- we are going to ask IR for information about the courses students enrolled Fall 09 that had 48 hours or more and had completed Engl 1302 and one of the Government Core courses to get a feel for which courses on our list of 43 were most likely courses students close to graduation were taking last Fall. We are hoping to reduce the number of courses based on this information.

All the workteams are going to have their objectives and rubrics with descriptions completed by the last Summer I session for "show and share" (July 7th). All the workteams are going to share where they are on the outcomes for the rubrics at the June 30th session for feedback. The Summer I group will also brainstorm some elements of Guidelines for the faculty to give to the Summer II group for completion.