1. Assessment Committee Update to Faculty Senate February 18, 2015

2. Outline Who is involved? What we are doing? Request for input

3. Who is serving on AC? Heidi Steltzer (Sciences, chair) Erich McAlister (Sciences) Shawn Meek (Arts and Humanities) Mika Kusar (Business) Michael Martin (Arts and Humanities) Rebecca Austin (Social Sciences) Kim Hannula (ex-officio) Lisa Snyder (ex-officio)

4. Planning and conducting assessment of Liberal Arts Core at FLC 2014-2015 DateTasks Oct 2014Faculty senate tasked the AC to complete LAC assessment in 2014-2015 Oct-Dec 2014AC met 2-3x per month to develop an approach for LAC assessment. Dec 2014Faculty submitted writing samples Jan-Feb 2015Creating resources for scoring, recruiting scorers, and training scorers Feb-Mar 2015Scoring writing samples for Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Mar 2015Complete report on Fall 2014 term LAC assessment Apr-Jun 2015Complete Spring 2015 term LAC assessment

5. Method for LAC assessment at FLC Faculty teaching capstone senior courses submit writing samples for each student/group within their course at the end of the term. Writing samples are scored for critical thinking and problem solving, using the AACU LEAP rubrics. Writing samples are selected through a stratified random sampling approach Stratification is by area (Science, Social Science, Arts and Humanities, Business, Teacher Education) and within areas by faculty to increase chances that selected writing is not all from one faculty, as is possible. Data will only be analyzed across areas and faculty – assignments are de-identified

6. Data on submissions for Fall 2014 AreaTotal # writing samples# selected samples Arts and Humanities10 Business11 Social Science4715 Science4415 Teacher Education00 Number of writing samples is affected by the 1) number of students/courses taught 2) whether assignments are completed individually or as groups and 3) if suitable assignment is included in the capstone course, i.e. writing, in English, critical thinking and problem solving can be assessed.

7. Who is scoring Fall 2014 writing samples Michael Martin (AH)* Michele Malach (AH) Gordon Cheesewright (AH)* Rebecca Austin (SS)* Brad Clark (SS) Cathy Hartney (Hon) Gary Gianniny (S) Melissa Knight-Maloney (S) Erich McAlister (S)* Paul Clay (B) *are individuals also serving on the AC or the LAC **individuals were asked to serve by faculty on the AC Thanks to all involved.

8. Request for input Service commitment for scoring for LAC assessment LAC assessment is required by HLC and must be completed each year Commitment includes training (~2-3 hours) and scoring (~10 hours) About 20 scorers are needed each year

9. Request for input – how to plan for scorers Option 1: Volunteer Option 2: Requirement for faculty serving on LAC Council and Assessment Committee Option 3: Jury-service type system (AC recommendation) All faculty after completing 2 nd year service become eligible for selection Random selection, document service completed, not called again to serve until all other faculty have served Can’t be called in term when instructing for a course being assessed Can defer by one term ~110 faculty eligible, ~20 scorers needed per year, service about 1x every 5 years Option 4: Service requirement for LAC assessment is included in faculty expectations statement; chairs document this is completed.