Assessment Committee
Minutes
Minutes of April 14, 2004
1:00 p.m.
Assessment Committee meeting was held in the Oak Room C-209
of the College Center.
Present at the meeting were Cynthia Harris, Joe Dusek, Ileana Rodriguez,
Ed Forst and John Augustine. Absent were
Alpha McMath, Pamela Harmon, Tom Porebski and Michael Flaherty.
NCA Online Accreditation:
Ileana Rodriguez reported on the progress of
the focus visit from NCA regarding our request for the online AA and AS
degrees. She reported the team was quite impressed with the outstanding
faculty and students that participated in the focus visit. The exit interview
resulted in the NCA team recommending the accreditation of both online degrees.
One exception to this is that failure or lack of appropriate faculty assessment
of the online components. The team recommended immediate effort on our part
to remedy this deficiency. Ileana emphasized the importance for an assessment
tool to quantitatively capture student outcomes and learning.
Mentors for Annual
Assessment Report 2004
John Augustine
reviewed the mentoring assignments putting in the last few empty spaces.
The assignments will be typed up and distributed. Each committee member
will make telephone contact with the appropriate chair or coordinator to
determine if anyone needs help with their assessment reports.
Assessment Questionnaire:
Based upon Cynthia Harriss questionnaire,John
Augustine distributed amongst the members a modified version
of this form. The committee members were asked to recommend changes or adoption
of new survey questions. The survey will be used in conjunction with the
Assessment Plan to assist in pin-pointing the appropriate use of resources
to specific level of the institution. The
survey will be ready to distribute in the fall workshop. The committee will
make arrangements to meet during the summer to facilitate this survey to
be completed.
Joe Duseks Assessment Report:
Because of the lack of time, Joes Assessment
Report was tabled to the next meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:30
p.m.
Minutes prepared by: John Augustin