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” Williams Edwards Deming (1900-1993) Plan-Do-Check-Act

Overview of Assessment

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

DISTRIBUTION AREAS OLD NEW % ReductionHumanities 603 237 60.70%Writing 2 2 0.00%Social Sciences 313 33 89.46%Math/Logic 57 11 80.70%History 13 11 15.38%Natural Science 11 11 0.00%Foreign Language 13 13 0.00%

TOTAL 1012 318 68.58%

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)0 Clair Curtis (POLI)0 Amy Kolak (PSYC)0 Kevin Keenan (URST)0 Barbara Borg (ANTH)

0 Bill Russell0 Chris Warnick0 Betsy Baker0 Cassie Thomas

History Math/Logic0 Scott Poole0 Lisa Covert0 Rich Bodek0 Bryan Ganaway

0 Iana Anguelova0 Jason Howell0 Liz Jurisich0 Andrew Prseworski

ARG Members

Natural Science

Language

0 Miranda McManus (BIOL)0 Richard Lavrich (CHEM)0 Steve Jaume (GEOL)0 Linda Jones (PHYS)

0 Emily Beck (SPAN)0 Devon Hanahan (SPAN)0 Shawn Morrison (FREN)0 Lisa Signori (FREN)

Humanities0 Larry Krasnoff (PHIL)0 Jon Hale (EDFS)0 Mark Landis (THTR)0 David Moscowitz (COMM)0 Phyllis Jestice (HIST)0 Laura Turner (THTR)

Any Questions and Feedback?