February 2014

 Founded  Located in Crystal Lake, IL.  offers six associate's degrees and 17 Associate of Applied Science degrees.  About 400 AA, AS and related degree graduates each semester.  Serves about 7,000 credit students annually, 37% full time.

 Until 2013 MCC used the CAAP test as a graduation requirement for AA and AS degrees.  CAAP measures Math, Writing, Scientific Inquiry, and Critical Thinking.  However, MCC’s general education goals are Critical Thinking, Effective Communication, Ethical Awareness, Technological Literacy, and Information Literacy.  CAAP did not give us the feedback we needed.

 In addition, students took the CAAP test as a graduation requirement, but it had no grade or meaning to the student, and the results didn’t always reflect student learning outcomes.  MCC was spending money on an assessment and not using the data for meaningful transformations.

 CAAP  Not utilized, didn’t map to Gen Ed Objectives  Writing our own test  Difficult to validate  Curriculum Map/Course Sequence/Individual Tracking of Student Assessment  Time intensive  E-Portfolio  Time intensive

 Will it be a graduation requirement or voluntary?  Which programs/courses will complete it?  Will all graduates complete it (transfer, reverse transfer?)  How will e-portfolio completion be enforced?  For purposes of graduation, how will completion be defined?

 What happens to students that aren’t aware of the requirement?  What happens to students deciding late they will graduate that haven’t collected artifacts?  What happens to students that transferred the majority of credits and have no artifacts?  Who will provide training for students and faculty on e-portfolio construction?  How will students be notified of the requirement / when does it go into effect?

 What type of submission components will be allowed (text, picture, audio, video)?  What type of software platform is needed to support an e-portfolio?  What type of assignments will be considered? (Pre-determined list or students choice?)  Will there be a cover letter requirement?

 How will students submit the portfolio?  How will the Credential Evaluators know a portfolio has been submitted and meets the requirement?  How long will students be able to access the portfolio?  Will there be a way to provide a template to standardize e-portfolios?

 Can a rubric be developed to score all e- portfolio formats and subject areas?  Can e-portfolio’s be consistently scored and evaluated?  Who will score e-portfolio’s?  Will all e-portfolio’s be scored or simply a subset?  Will all e-portfolio’s be scored or only the cover letter?  How will missing general education components be handled (i.e. ethical awareness)  Will scores/feedback be provided to students?

 What data will be tracked and reported?  Where will data be reported?

 In spring 2013 MCC changed to an e-portfolio graduation requirement for AA, AS, and related graduates.

 Beginning with students who enter MCC in fall 2014:  “Students seeking a degree of AA, AS, AES, AFA or AGE will be required to complete an E-portfolio of work demonstrating their achievements in the five general education goals of the college”

 In addition, in summer 2013 MCC switched from Angel to Canvas for its LMS. One feature of Canvas is the e-portfolio system. This will be used for the graduation e- portfolio.

Before we ask students to make their own E-portfolios, we have to train faculty and staff.  Faculty training at professional development training days, and in small workshops during the semester.

 Canvas “Graduation E-portfolio” page for all students and faculty.  Embedded video instructions  Text instructions  Planned workshops  Faculty-led practice

 The MCC Assessment Team, which comprises faculty, staff, and administration members, will develop a rubric to evaluate the student work

GoalArtifactExceedsCompetentAproachingMarginalNo Artifact Critical Thinking Information Literacy Effective Communication Ethical Awareness Technological Literacy

Definitions: Exceeds: The artifact demonstrates knowledge or skills beyond the expectations of a two year degree seeking student. Competent: The artifact demonstrates knowledge or skills at the expected level of a two year degree seeking student Approaching: The artifact demonstrates knowledge or skills below the expectations of a two year degree seeking student but shows some features near competent level. Marginal: The artifact demonstrates knowledge or skills below the expectations of a two year degree seeking student

 Students must fill out an intent to graduate form.  Students have to send the link of their e- portfolio to both the credentials evaluators and the Assessment Team

 Students will have graded work to represent their outcomes in each of the five general education goals:  Critical Thinking  Effective Communication  Ethical Awareness  Technological Literacy  Information Literacy  In addition, they will write a cover letter.

 Data will be collected and presented to the college, beginning spring  Transformations from the data will be developed by departments.

 Student cooperation with data collection.  Accuracy of data collected.  Ability to generate meaningful transformations.  Influence on student graduation rates.  Transfer students and reverse-transfer graduates.