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 Harris’s 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 Dusek’s Assessment Report:

Because of the lack of time, Joe’s Assessment Report was tabled to the next meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:30 p.m.

Minutes prepared by: John Augustin