Assessment Report Card for Provost’s Council (May 2010)

We might anticipate response to this report to be presented to the Provost’s council by the Vice Provost tomorrow. attached file Assessment Report Card 5-10-10

Updating and Advancing Accreditation Self Studies

Program Assessment Points and Liaisons: Thank you for the work you and your colleagues have done and are doing on assessment so far, and thanks for the feedback.   We continue to need your help addressing the many entities that have an interest in WSU’s commitment to student learning outcomes. There are audiences at the [...]

A Leader Asks, What is the Rain King Chronicle

It’s our blog of the story, or history of this assessment initiative we’ve launched.  We summarize and don’t name names (except our own).  Bits of notes go in this chronicle, for instance the liaison who told us “it is inappropriate for us to share our rubrics.” It’s not just about keeping a history, which we [...]

Update for Program Points on Assessment Status

A sample reminder for programs falling behind in the assessment work: Just a quick note to catch up.  I last recall you were working on an assessment planning report, and we had talked about what we thought was a pretty good plan.  Let us know if there is more we can do to help you [...]

Faculty Senate

At Faculty Senate, Thursday, February 18th, concerns were expressed about the assessment initiative.  The concerns largely reflected, we are informed, questions about who was being asked to do this. On Monday, February 22nd, we have been invited to provide a report.  I have proposed we share the HEC Board report we are preparing this week.

Liaison Writes at Deadline

A Liaison writes…. Gary, I am leaving town for the weekend but if you let me know on Monday who missed the deadline, I’ll remind chairs at our 10:30 am meeting that you need these asap. I talked to [the dean about problematic program] … [snip] do we have to enroll someone from the faculty [...]

Responding to Liaison Concern Regarding a Non-responsive Program

December 17, 2009 We’ve contacted all points and have had good responses from most.  The rebuttal “nobody told me” will not hold.   What will follow, should a program elect not to participate in this process, is simply an “absent” or zero rating on all 4 dimensions.  Non-responsive programs will receive ongoing invitations to work with [...]

Note from Liaison

December 15, 2009 A College Liaison liaises…. Gary, People are beginning to send me the undergrad assessment reports.  How should these be submitted to you?  I am not keen on being the middle person so I would prefer guidance/directions from you as to how these can be sent directly to OAI and cc’ed to me. [...]

December Agenda Shared with Liaisons

Suggestion for you to send to Liaisons In particular, the note was shared: The new OAI website is up http://oai.wsu.edu and we are assembling resources there that will be helpful to you and program contacts in creating the plans that are due Dec 18. Especially note the three links on the right end in the [...]

Liaison Exchange–Toward Greater Rigor

Notes from October exchange with College Liaison: 1. The College Assessment Committee meets this Thursday and I would like to begin addressing the program report that you’d like by the end of the semester. Should we limit our focus to degree learning outcomes? Or, should we include other outcomes, as well. For example, the tables [...]