Transcript : Assessment at ECC Past, Present and Future Your Assessment Committee 2007-2008:

Assessment at ECC: Past, Present and Future
Your Assessment Committee 2007-2008:
Jessica Carpenter, Chair
Rose DiGerlando
Linda Hartley
Tim Kaar
Linda McEwan
Michele Noel
Mary Perkins
Jill Russell
Nicole Scherger
Susan Timm
Sharon Baker
Leticia Garcia
Peggy Heinrich
Tina Leverenzzi
Shawn Mikulay
Mary O’Sullivan
Elaine Reid
Manuel Salgado
Carol Szabo
Lisa Wiehle
Why is assessment important?
• To guide our program, course and student service
development in a systematic way
• To determine what our students have learned
• To determine what our students have not learned
• To improve our students’ learning
Assessment at ECC: Past
• General Education outcomes revised
• Program-level outcomes established
• Some course-level outcomes established
• Some program-level outcomes measured for every
program
• Some course-level outcomes measured for at least
one course in each program
Assessment at ECC: Present
• Programs should have completed the Annual
Summary Report of Program/Services, available at
the assessment committee website via e-net
• Every program should have completed an Annual
Summary Report of Course for at least one course
Annual Summary Report cont.
Three Years of Data
• General Education outcome data have been
collected for the past three years in the areas of:
Reading, Writing (essay & CAAP), Quantitative
Skills (Math & Science), Critical Thinking (CCTST),
Information & Technological Literacy and Global
Awareness
• Today we will focus on Reading, Writing and
Quantitative Skills data.
Data on Writing Outcomes (essay)
Year
2005
2006
2007
Total
Average score
2.70
3.27
3.00
3.00
Total writing samples
128
150
115
393
10.9%
1.3%
8.0%
6.4%
34.4%
22.1%
20.4%
25.6%
35.9%
37.6%
38.9%
37.4%
11.7%
26.2%
29.2%
22.3%
7.0%
12.8%
3.5%
8.2%
1: Unacceptable, failing
%
2: Weak in composition,
just barely passing
%
3: Sound in composition,
few deviations
%
4: Solid in all areas, fully
developed
%
5: Strong in all areas,
particularly
distinguished
%
Data on Writing Outcomes (CAAP)
Data on Reading Outcomes
Data on Quantitative Outcomes
Summary of CAAP Results
CAAP Results by Number of Hours
CAAP Results, 2005 -- 2007
Cumulative Earned Hours
15/less
16 - 30
31 - 45
46+
Writing Skills Percentile
43.1
47.5
53.8
52.5
Writing: Usage/Mechanics Percentile
48.3
49.8
59.4
56.2
Writing: Rhetoric Percentile
44.7
50.3
54.1
54.1
Math Percentile
54.0
65.3
70.3
67.2
Math: Basic Algebra Percentile
58.1
66.9
73.4
68.8
Math: College Algebra Percentile
54.9
64.5
66.6
68.6
Reading Percentile
47.8
53.0
61.2
55.9
Reading: Arts/Lit Percentile
53.0
57.0
62.4
58.6
Reading: Social Studies/Science
Percentile
47.5
54.0
63.3
58.6
Scientific Percentile
57.1
56.8
67.3
64.5
Assessment at ECC: Future
• It is time to “close the loop” on General Education
assessment and devise strategies to improve
• The assessment committee will be forming
taskforces in the areas of reading, writing and
quantitative skills first, other areas will follow.
• We need YOU to assist us in this endeavor!
• Expect to see focus groups and other activities to
bring the campus together to tackle these issues