Assessment Committee Meeting 01-29-09, updated 2/17/09 2Minutes taken by Stephanie Owen
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Number of students who participated in the SLP multiple times becauseoverlap of courses
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Pre-test: 27 students took the test 3x in various courses
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Pre-test: 207 students took the test 2x in various courses
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Pre-test: 906 students took the test once
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Lessons learned:
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Serious lack of communication:
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Student ids should have been matched for each grader (scoring sheetsshould have been matched ahead of time)
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More training for graders needed (too much variation)
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Some scores between graders were too close
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Graders unclear on what constitutes a 2 score (1 being bad, 2 beingokay, 3 being good, 4 being excellent), a lot of inconsistencies
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#2 had the greatest variations because, perhaps, the holistic rubricwas too holistic and needed to discuss more what constitutes a 1, 2,3, o4 4
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Some graders forgot about grading sheet and in certain areas thatneeded check marks, graders put numbers
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Some graders gave
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scores instead of using whole numbers
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Some graders entered in zero when zero should not have been used
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Reasons for inconsistency during post test
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Attitudes, burnout, forgetting may have played a large role indifferences
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No accountability for action
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No clear instructions (step-by-step) given to graders
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Recommendations
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Call meeting with Career program chairs (invite them to nextexecutive board meeting) and discuss the importance of havingmembers attend meetings
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Need to have on-going face-to-face interaction
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Next go to Program Deans: Alta Williams and Michael Gorman
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Need to discuss how to “release” the SLP data
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Do we want a written report, made available on line?
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Suggest inviting anyone interested to the next full assessmentcommittee meeting where Dean Javior will “reveal” the data of SLP
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Also present at a college wide meeting
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Each department will be given a synopsis of their department data byDean Javior
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Departments are given a template of reporting method addressingdifficulties of the SLP
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Departments then report out to Assessment Committee on how they plan to address those problemsVI.
Department Assessment Plan mechanics
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People need to be made clear of nuts and bolts of plan and the template
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Goal is to split into groups during assessment committee full member meetings and work on template questions
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