The Fall Faculty Workshop will focus on assessment of student learning. This brief survey form has been designed to assess the interests and concerns faculty have about the implementation of the institution's assessment plan. The estimated time to complete this form is 5-10 minutes.

Instructions: Please circle the response which best fits your view.

1. How familiar are you with the institution's printed assessment plan (dated April 1997)?

a. Not at all

b. Heard something about it (6)

c. Skimmed it (9)

d. Read it (2)

e. Worked on it (7)

2. For what aspect of the plan do you feel personally responsible?

(check all that apply)

a. None or don't know (1)

b. My courses (21)

c. My discipline (program or unit) (20)

d. General Education (8)

e. Institutional goals (7)

3. Which statements reflect your general views about the assessment plan?

(check all that apply)

a. I understand why it is necessary. (18)

b. I don't understand why it is necessary. (2)

c. I understand the basic approach and agree with it. (10)

d. I do not understand the basic approach. (3)

e. I understand the basic approach and do not agree with it. (2)

f. I have not formed an opinion about any of this. (2)

4. Which statements reflect your questions and concerns about implementation of the plan?

(check all that apply)

a. I do not have any questions or concerns. (3)

b. I do not have time to do this work. (13)

c. I do not know enough about assessment and/or assessment methods. (7)

d. We do not have adequate resources to do this work. (13)

e. My colleagues do not agree enough to proceed with this work. (7)

f. I do not understand my role in assessment. (2)

5. Comments you wish to make about assessment or the institutional plan.

We need secretarial help here.

Thanks Bert! Thanks Erica!

I wish we'd had this before we'd done all the assessment work last year.

Please help the music faculty get to writing a plan. Only a strong directive from above will make senior faculty in the discipline see the value of doing this.

I was concerned with the statement about "which option you are considering." What one option? It depends on the course/activity/project. Can we see examples of what "they" have in mind?

Let's discuss!

Assessment of education is a never-ending, two-way evaluative process between faculty and students. Students need to have full participation in assessment, not just having two members on the committee.

I see a hierarchy in this plan. This was not apparent in the explanation of what the plan is about, and what we need to do to address it.

We must do it.

6. Suggestions you have for subsequent workshops on assessment of student learning.

An opportunity for our faculty to discuss what we now need to be doing to satisfy our assessment plan.

Start at IEO. Assume difference of opinion. Background talks too much time to go over. We needed more stuff on Implementation! I wanted more about other plans.

Actual assessment techniques.

Specific forms examples so we know exactly what is needed.

More specific examples/case studies of assessment projects here or elsewhere.

More examples of easy/not-much-time assessment ideas.

Please focus on how not why.

More substance.

A workshop that consists of representatives from every hierarchical level, namely:

legislature who demands it,

the NCA body,

administrators,

faculty,

and last but not least students!

While the epistemological and psychometric theory issues are interesting, we all know them. We need to spend less time pissing and whining and just do it thoughtfully. Something I wish had been covered was assessment of non-class activities (i.e., internships, service learning, etc.). It's in these areas where we need advice on assessment.

More work on our own plan (i.e., general small group discussion on general education goals, objectives, implementation or how are we going to quantify our outcomes?).

Keep the discussion to assessment of student learning.

Implementation

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