July 20th Meeting Summary

This meeting we spent some time making sure that the Summer II chairs understood what our assessment related goals are for Fall 10:
1. Close the Loop on Program Assessment done Spring 10 and address "opportunity to learn"
2. Accomplish Gen Ed assessment of Communication Skills, Teamwork, and Social Responsibility Fall 10.

We reviewed the 3 purposes of our Fall 10 assessment:
1. Gen Ed Assessment for SACs Accountability (are our students close to graduation achieving our gen ed competencies)
2. Core Assessment for THECB Accountability (are our core students close to graduation achieving the core competencies)
3. Our desire to assess to improve student learning (how well are our students close to graduation achieving the competencies and how can we work together to improve student learning of the competencies)

We examined a data summary of the students who enrolled Fall 09 and who had taken and passed Engl 1302 and Govt 2305 or Govt 2306 by numbers of majors. These data may help us identify courses that will most likely have graduates in them Fall 10 so that we can give the faculty teaching these courses a heads up about the need for an assignment that may also be used for assessment purposes.

Before the July 27th meeting everyone will edit the generic rubrics. Several members of the team will do some background work on identifying population, sampling, and timeline feasibility for assessing graduating students and will report to the group July 27th.