Projects+and+Discussion

Hi Everyone--I can't believe it's time for our second round! Looking forward to seeing everyone on Sunday eve--or Monday for sure!!

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Julie

My project is focusing on the development of Faculty Learning Communities in General Education with the initial goal of developing outcomes for GE in order to change the institutional culture to see GE as a program. Ultimately, the plan is to create dialogue and training on co-curriular collaboration with GE and other programs, while creating authentic assessments.

Here's my contact info: Julie Marty-Pearson Julie.Marty-Pearson@sjvc.edu 661-319-5890

Mac and Errin

The transition of some institutions from national to regional accreditation highlights important differences in assessment standards. This project examines institutions that have successfully navigated from national to regional accreditation and the key metrics that campus leaders utilize to monitor ongoing compliance.

Stacy Gomes: Revise, align and assess clinical outcomes to mission, vision, values, and inter-professional competencies. Pilot test in Livetext.

Veronica: This is what I am proposing to create an online course covering the following topics:
 * history of outcomes assessment
 * Bloom's taxonomy: what it really means
 * How to write good SLOs
 * Curriculum mapping
 * Assessment methods (direct & indirect; how to link to Bloom's)
 * "Authentic" assessments
 * How to gather data (sampling)
 * Getting meaningful results (conducting meetings, dialogue moments, creating questions to answer)
 * Creating viable, specific "use of results" plan

It would be worth more like 15hours of flex because I envision reading assignments, discussion questions, scenarios to respond to or analyze, a couple of short tests and possibly even having participants revise a course's SLOs and create a new assessment plan. Veronica Jaramillo jaramiv@elac.edu

**Melanie Booth**: My project is focused on helping our library develop a learning assessment plan and (ideally) pilot one assessment project this fall. I am learning a lot of really interesting things about assessment in libraries by doing my lit review; if any of you want to know more about this, I'd be happy to share. mbooth@marylhurst.edu Update: Here is my project plan - the lit review might be of interest to anyone who is supporting assessment in their academic libraries.