Assessment Information Quick Run-down

Why do we do assessment?

*Assessment is done to ensure that student learning is occurring and excellence in teaching is happening. When we do assessment we are measuring several things:

*How well students can read, comprehend, apply what they have learned, perform the skills necessary for their certificate/degree, graduate and get a job (in a nut-shell).

So how do we do assessment?

*There are many ways that we can do assessment. There is an outline of 5 Student Learning Outcomes and Goals that have been designated as a guide for each faculty to assess their student learning. Here they are:

1. Read and Comprehend College-Level Coursework

2. Explain and Defend Ideas Orally and In Writing

3. Examine Ideas Using Critical Reasoning

4. Solve Problems Using Logic, Mathematics, Computers and Creative Thinking

5. Demonstrate Responsible Citizenship

*Once you have decided what you would like to assess, you choose how you are going to do that. You can give a chapter test, embedded essay questions, project, portfolio, skills based exam, etc… etc… etc… You are all doing some kind of assessment with your students to ensure that they are learning the material necessary in your courses. You get to choose one or two of those pieces to use for your assessment.

*Once you have decided what goals you are going to use and what assessment you are going to do, you grade the assessment in terms of a 1, 2, or 3.

1 – Unsatisfactory

2 – Satisfactory

3 – Exemplary

We can think of these in terms of 1 – D or F, 2 – B or C, 3 – A

What do we do with this information after we are done?

*Two different pieces of information needed –

*First from ALL faculty we will follow an Excel spreadsheet template and they will enter in the S# and score for each student that completed the assessment.

*Follow spreadsheet template that we have provided you – This is the easiest for Bob because he has to cut and paste and put together all of the information that we send him.

*You will find the template if you go to trinidadstate.edu - Academics – Faculty – Assessment - Course-specific, Embedded GEO Assessment Instruments – this scoring template.

*After you have filled in your spreadsheet, you will send it to Bob Philbin. With your spreadsheet you will send a quick rundown of the kind of assessment that you did and how you graded the students.

*For example: GenEd Goal 1. Read and comprehend college-level work

Task assigned: Students read chapter on Roles of a Teacher and then answered questions about those responsibilities. 

Questions included:

1) List the 4 major categories of responsibility for a classroom teacher;

2) Identify qualities they possess of a teacher from a quality child care center;

3) Conclude accurate data from a graph of number of child care centers who exemplify quality.

*Second – Trac-dat information from department heads, division chairs, directors, or a designated person: Tracdat entries regarding information on courses and programs.

*Trac-dat information should at a minimum be outlined to measure the following three areas:

*Program Level - Completers of each program – Graduation/Completion Rate

*Course Level – Students can perform the skills necessary for their program (GenEd level assessment from the above 5 student learning outcomes-goals)

*VE-135 – Information on graduates entering the job force – employment

*Again a how to guide has been written for you in order to help you enter your information into Trac-dat