From: Philbin, Robert

Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:42 AM

To: TSJC, All Staff

Subject: Oct26 All-Faculty Workshop

Friday, October 26 will be an All-Faculty Workshop from 10am-2pm with lunch provided.  The purpose is to review and update all program-level assessment plans.  Because a program is more than the sum of courses that make it up, the program-level assessment assesses those program-level goals.

We will meet by program area to review and update program-level assessment plans. The 'Status of TSJC Program Assessments' web page at www.trinidadstate.edu/AISL/aps/status.htm consists of a table with each program constituting one row of the table.   The columns are Program Name, Status, Responsible Administrator, Faculty Lead, AISLC Contact, and Degree Options - Campus, respectively. If you find any errors in this table, please notify via e-mail me and everyone involved.

The Status field shows two things: a number and a letter.  These represent the level to which the program-level assessment plan exists and an estimate of the implementation level, respectively.  The keys for these fields is at the top of the Status web page.

Our goal for the Oct 26 workshop is to get all plans to 5 AND to develop plans that will:

a.    generate useful data - for curriculum adjustment and future planning, i.e., strategic planning;

b.    be easily implement-able.  Developing good and useful data need not add a lot to your workload.

c.    be easily reported.  I am open to ideas to improve the online assessment form ( www.trinidadstate.edu/AISL/reports/asp/form.html )so that it can be used to report course-level as well as program-level assessments.

I will send, via e-mail, the submitted data from each program area to assigned faculty lead within the next week.

Please do two things with this:

(1) Forward via e-mail to me, the assigned AISLC Contact, and all faculty involved in your program area.

(2) Prior to 10/26, review the data and your existing program-level assessment plan.  I will use the forwarded e-mail to communicate with each program area.

By the way, you can look up any data in the reporting database by using http://www.trinidadstate.edu/aisl/reports/asp/search.html

We have scheduled four hours for the workshop because this is the approximate maximum time required to review and update a program-level plan.  Many of you will be done sooner.  Some will be almost done before the workshop starts, so you will only have to come to the beginning to have the AISLC accept your plan documents.

Robert Philbin

Professor of Physics/Math, www.trinidadstate.edu/mathsci

Assessment Coordinator, www.trinidadstate.edu/AISL

Trinidad State Junior College

Trinidad, CO 81082

719.846.5518

PS    If you know of anyone who teaches at TSJC but did not get this e-mail, please forward to them.