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How do we use our assessment data?

We conduct a Collegewide assessment review workshop to discuss our data, rubrics and guides.

At the Convocation in August, we included a schedule of our professional development workshops in the packets each counterparts group receives. Calendar invites were also sent directly to faculty members through Outlook for the data review meetings.

In these sessions we:

  • Reviewed challenges to the assessment
  • Walked through our assessment journey to remind everyone how far we have come
  • Discussed our rubrics for Oral Communication, Cultural Sensitivity and Quantitative Reasoning
  • Discussed participation rates
  • Reviewed the assessment data

  • Explained how the data may be used to drive curricular changes

  • Facilitated faculty breakout sessions to gather feedback about the challenges to submitting artifacts, discussing the assessment data and ELO rubrics, and gathering feedback on the workshop itself 

  • Showcased all the resources that are available to assist in every step of the assessment process
  • Sent a follow-up survey to the entire College to gather additional feedback so all stakeholders' voices could be heard

What do we do with all the knowledge we receive from our workshops?

What we learned:

Our action plan:

Some are unaware of how quickly an assignment can be aligned.
  • We revamped our instructions to include a quick reference guide with links to longer instructions. 
  • The subject line in the faculty notification email will be edited to show aligning only takes five clicks or 30 seconds.
Some are unaware that this is a mandatory process outlined in the contract.
  • We added the links and contract language to the FAQ section on our website and the notification email, and we will include them in all future presentations.
  • We met with the Dean’s Council so they understood it was mandatory.
  • Through this meeting, we partnered with the Dean’s Council to send ELO reminders to faculty members as part of their regular semester reminders/meetings with faculty throughout the year.  
Assistance is needed to find the best ELO assignment.
  • We will continue to promote our Lib guide, which contains how-to videos and sample assignments used by Tri-C faculty that align with each of our seven ELOs and our DEI courses. 
  • Our communications will continue to include the contact information for our full CLOA membership. Anyone on CLOA can assist with creating or editing an assignment to better align with an ELO.
  • We host ELO workshops at the beginning of each year that include a walkthrough of alignment resources. Recordings of the sessions are made available on our KWeb site for future reference.
  • There are also breakout sessions in the ELO workshops that allow faculty members to find the best assignment in a group of sample assignments and to practice editing assignments that are not an exact match.
  • There is a working session at the end of the ELO workshops where faculty can meet with CLOA to discuss their actual assignment.
Unsure of the "Why"
  • Institutional assessment gives us data to prove our students are learning these specific skills that will help them in their lives and careers. 
  • Faculty teaching these skills in a wide variety of courses enable our students to learn and practice these skills frequently throughout their time with us.  
  • In our workshops we discuss the College's accreditation levels and explain that our ELOs are in alignment with both ODHE as well as the HLC.   
  • We created two documents to showcase how important our ELOs are in the real world, from the workforce to everyday life. 
Unsure of what happens to the assessment results
  • We will add our yearly workshop schedule where we discuss the results in the faculty notification email. Loop closure sessions will be held in the spring semester after collection ends for an ELO. 
  • We will also resurrect our yearly assessment newsletter. This is emailed to the entire College and contains assessment terms, a yearly wrap-up of assessment activities and a place to offer suggestions/ask questions/volunteer.  
Rubrics need more opportunities for
review
  • CLOA will review the rubric feedback from our workshop sessions along with representatives from courses that are mapped to ELOs and anyone else at the College who would like to be on the review team. 
  • CLOA will regularly compare our ELOs with ODHE and HLC to make sure we are staying up to date.  
Additional information requested in our faculty notification emails.
  • A quick reference guide with links to the longer instructions, if needed
  • The subject line in the faculty notification email edited to show aligning only takes five clicks or 30 seconds
  • ELO workshops schedule and recordings of previous sessions 
  • Showcase of how important our ELOs are in the real world, from the workforce to everyday life
  • Addition of the contract language
  • Reiterating in notification emails important assignment information for all individual ELOs
Adjuncts may not be receiving all notifications.
  • We created template language for deans to include assessment questions during their review meetings with all faculty.
  • Deans can now email faculty who haven't aligned an assignment by midterms and finals week.
  • We are asking Adjunct Services managers to add assessment reminders to their newsletters. 
Course-level assessment planning meetings additions
  • We met with 50 disciplines in AY 2022/2023 to create their course-level outcome plans.
  • We reviewed outcomes for all courses in a discipline and created meta outcomes for faculty to use if they choose.
  • As the meetings progressed, we made small tweaks to the informational portion of the meetings to be more inclusive of all situations disciplines may encounter.   
Common Reading, (re)Imaginings and Cocurriculars
  • Annual end-of-year loop closure narratives 
  • Any cocurricular events

The Yearly Assessment Process

Selection Process

1. The Learning Outcomes Assessment office gathers all courses that are mapped to an ELO for the semester. Being mapped to an ELO means faculty have identified that a course has an assignment that applies to an ELO and have mapped the course by updating Official Course Outlines in CIM.

2. Next, all CRNs for those courses are asked to submit student work, which will now become known as artifacts. Artifacts are exact, ungraded copies of student work that will be assessed for ELOs after the semester ends. It does not affect the student grade in any way.

Faculty Experience

3.  Faculty are then notified well in advance of the start of the semester that their CRN has been chosen. Faculty are given instructions on how to align the assignment to the ELO in Blackboard. There are also instructions regarding verbiage for their syllabi and creating/uploading the assignment in case they don’t usually use Blackboard. CLOA members reach out to each individual faculty member to help them align, choose and upload the assignment.  

4. Faculty upload the assignment to Blackboard as they usually would. The only difference is adding the alignment (a few short clicks). Students submit the assignment as they normally would. The student experience is exactly the same whether the assignment is aligned or not.

Assessment Process

5. The semester artifacts are collected, and CLOA and other faculty members begin to assess each artifact using a standardized rubric for each ELO. Each artifact is assessed by three separate assessors. The process of assessing is done in Blackboard. 

6. After all assessments are complete, LOA aggregates the results and distributes them to the College through newsletters as well as a dedicated page for results on this website.

Results/Loop Closing Process

7. Lastly, all stakeholders at the College are invited to join in our Closing the Loop discussions. All are invited to these sessions; you don't have to teach a course mapped to a certain ELO to join the discussion. In these sessions, we discuss the ELO, the rubric, its application in the classroom, data from the assessments from the last academic year and how this data drives curricular change. 

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Amanda Nolan
amanda.nolan@tri-c.edu

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