1. Comprehensive Assessment Plan
Mission: To improve student learning by creating and sustaining a culture of dialogue, reflection and action based on student work.

2. Comprehensive Assessment Plan
Essential Elements
Grounded in an ongoing and evolving commitment and curiosity by faculty to student learning
Align with college’s mission…”Changing Lives Through Education”
Move the college towards the future it envisions
Operate within the college’s set of declared values: caring, collaboration, diversity, innovation, integrity and quality

3. Notes From the Field…
Successful Assessment = Faculty Engagement and Collaboration
Faculty Led
Assessment is a Process
“Spread Effect”
Cultural shift -- Faculty authority, ownership, leadership

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Faculty Inquiry Group (FIG): A temporary coalition of faculty investigating a shared interest around student learning: reflection, dialogue and action
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Faculty Inquiry Groups collecting and analyzing evidence around student learning and making changes to curriculum at the classroom level.
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Examples:
1. Science Lab Project
2 . Assessment Loop Form Debrief Groups

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Faculty Inquiry Groups collecting and analyzing evidence around student learning and making changes to curriculum across a Program or Department.
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Examples:
History
IS Program

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Faculty Inquiry Groups collecting and analyzing evidence (direct and indirect) around student learning across the institution and making recommendations for institutional improvement
Examples:
Critical Thinking & Writing Rubric Groups
Information Literacy & Civic Engagement Assignments
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Assessment committee serves as a place of convergence where assessment information is discussed and synthesized into recommendations for future actions regarding student learning.
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9. Annual Cycle for Whole College Dialogue
Fall Quarter
President’s Day
Collaboration Day
End of Quarter
Reflections
Spring Quarter
Collaboration Day
Making Learning
Visible Symposium
Winter Quarter
Collaboration Day
Faculty Retreat
End of Quarter Reflections

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Habit of Mind: Reflecting on student learning becomes a part of everything we do
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….the vision is that all faculty eventually become involved in a Faculty Inquiry Group
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11. An Invitation to Create a FIG for Fall 2010
What do you observe about student learning at the classroom, program or institutional level that you are curious or concerned about that might become a possible FIG for next year?
Write each idea on a post-it and discuss them at your table.