2012-2013
- Jonathan Fohrman (Convener)
- Jill Baker
- Julianna Barnes
- Leela Bingham
- Ed Helscher
- Madeleine Hinkes
- Angela Liewen
- Pamela Luster
- Laurie Mackenzie
- Marichu Magana
- Michelle Parsons
- Mariette Rattner
- Chris Sullivan
- Susan Topham
Purpose
To facilitate meaningful dialogue and assessment practices which support the ongoing improvement of student learning and institutional effectiveness. To provide planning, support, facilitation, communication, and leadership that will enable the achievement of college goals pertaining to learning assessment.
Goals
1. Assuring compliance with accreditation requirements, and adequate documentation of evidence
2. Envision what would constitute “Sustainable Continuous Quality Improvement” at Mesa College, provide guidelines/benchmarks and support for its implementation, including:
- Develop a draft plan for sustainable continuous assessment, which identifies the timeline and key components of a complete cycle, encompassing the varied levels of assessment from course to institutional
- Identify, review and recommend assessment tools for campus, faculty and department use in order to support effective practices, and better integrate the use of learning assessment into our campus processes
3. Define the objectives and/or duties of the Learning Assessment Facilitator role, and provide collaborative support for their achievement
4. Modify web presence (incl. enhance resources and user-friendliness of web page)
5. Facilitate the sharing and discussion of effective assessment practices across SLOs &AUOs, for example, Community of Practice
6. Assessment of unmet needs
7. Evaluation of Mesa’s assessment resources and systems/mechanisms/structures, and provide recommendations in support of continuous improvement
8. Establish meaningful institution-level learning assessments (e.g., at the level of general education, and the institution as a whole)
9. Analyze findings of institution-level learning assessments and summary reports and recommend actions in support of continuous improvement
Objectives for 2012-2013
1. Survey / assess needs
- Review & discuss ACCJC SLO assessment standards, evaluate and propose action plans as needed
- Review & Discuss SLO Survey Results
2. Define LAF role
3. Develop FAQs
4. Run an institution level ILO assessment report from TaskStream
- Evaluate results and make recommendations to PIE regarding future institution-level learning assessment
5. Review assessment models from other colleges, devise and implement assessment of ILOs, GE, etc.
6. Review ACCJC Rubric, and define how SCQI could best be achieved at Mesa / utilize stakeholder input
7. Website Development
8. Evaluate scope and longevity of Task Force, continuation into future vs. replacement by committee
9. Fine tuning of TaskStream
- Develop wish list
- Support an enhanced ability to retrieve data from TaskStream in a useful format
10. Evaluation of TaskStream
11. Support the planning and implementation of campus-wide opportunities for the sharing of effective practices, discussion and analysis of findings, future institutional planning in this sphere
Endorsed at a 9/18/12 of the Learning Assessment Task Force (attended by: Ed Helscher, Michelle “Toni” Parsons, Angela Liewen, Marichu Magana, Madeleine Hinkes, Laurie Mackenzie, Pamela Luster, Denise Whisenhunt, Jonathan Fohrman)