Update on Harvesting Gradebook

In a Chronicle story about the release of the NILOA report “More than you think, Less than we need”  George Kuh says “What we want is for assessment to become a public, shared responsibility, so there should be departmental leadership.”  Kuh, Director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, goes on, “So we’re going [...]

On TAs and their role in Assessment

A Liaison reports that the graduate school has expressed it may be inappropriate for TAs to be asked to participate in program assessment. OAI addressed that issue with this note: Ultimately we need to communicate the understanding that teaching, learning, and assessment cannot be disaggregated. I think it is a shared understanding that a college [...]

Recap of the Planning Request

The Plan We Need The goal of the plan is to establish the team and strategy to be implemented in the spring. We are working to be sure ALL programs and ALL teaching faculty, adjuncts, and TAs can report some level of involvement in the program outcomes work, including, minimally, identification of program outcomes on [...]

Planning for Spring 2010 University-wide Assessment Activity

Planning for Spring 2010 University-wide Assessment Activity Attached are 2 images of the white board created during this meeting —— Forwarded Message From: Joshua Yeidel Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:22:11 -0700 To: ctltmessages Subject: Planning for Spring 2010 University-wide Assessment Activity Our 11AM “Rain King Design” meeting reviewed the actions needed to be ready [...]

October 27 Agenda, Planning Guide, Template Draft

Handouts for October 27 meeting.  We decided to revisit the template.  More summary will follow. (Agenda one is Larry’s; 2 includes revisions following discussions with OAI leadership.) From: James, Larry G Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:59 AM To: Brown, Gary Subject: Agenda

After Beta Rain King, Liaison asks Purpose of Initiative

A liaison asks in the online forum: “With this experience behind us, I would ask for a quick rehash of the goals for the assessment of assessments. We may be better prepared to comment at this point.” I suggest this response. 1.      Establish an institutional system of assessment aligned with NWCC&U principles 2.      NWCC&U further requires us [...]

Academic Effectiveness Liaison Council Meeting, Tuesday, October 27

Academic Effectiveness Liaison Council Date: October 27, 2009 Start Time:  2:00:00 PM End Time:  3:00:00 PM Dialing Instructions: 5707955 Origin: Pullman (French 442) Location: Spokane (SHSB 260), Tri-Cities (TEST 228), Vancouver (VCLS 308J) Details: Academic Effectiveness Liaison Council Special Request: Room reserved from 12:00 – 12:30 for set up. Event Contact: Donna Cofield     5-4854 [...]

External Interest in Rain King from TLT Group

Program review rubric From: Stephen C. Ehrmann [mailto:ehrmann@tltgroup.org] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 12:06 PM To: Larry Ragan; Abdous, M’Hammed; Jim Zimmer Cc: Gary Brown Subject: Program review rubric Hi, I mentioned to each of you that Gary Brown and his colleagues were in the early stages of using Flashlight Online [TLTGroup's re-branding of the [...]

Status on completion of the sample assessment

Gary, In anticipation of your meeting with Larry today, here is the status on completion of the sample assessment. This is a summary of the activities of the Liaisons in trying our harvesting system of assessment of assessment. (Note: Only 2 of 9 College liaisons and 4 of 6 OAI staff tried the system since [...]

Curriculum Mapping from Learning Outcomes Goals

In our first presentation First Presentation of Harvesting Feedback as Accreditation System we struggled with how to represent the curricular map. We used this chart in the Prezi Each program goal is a column, courses are rows, aspirations for how well the program goal is met in the course is a number and color in [...]