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Educational Program Assessment

Educational Program Assessment. Fall 2013 Convocation Kris Ogden. Goals. Review Educational P rogram A ssessment A nnual S chedule Providing and Reviewing G eneral E ducation and Program Assessment Data Next Steps. Outcomes for Today.

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Educational Program Assessment

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  1. Educational Program Assessment Fall 2013 Convocation Kris Ogden

  2. Goals • Review Educational Program Assessment Annual Schedule • Providing and Reviewing General Education and Program Assessment Data • Next Steps

  3. Outcomes for Today • Identify your role in educational program assessment. • Access the schedule of important dates and deadlines. • Apply assessment results in evaluating programs. • Acknowledge a better understanding of general education outcomes and program outcomes.

  4. Program Coordinators A faculty member academically qualified in the field will be assigned to degree and certificate programs. The primary responsibility of program coordinators is for program coordination, as well as curriculum development and review.

  5. Program Coordinators

  6. Program Heads Certain programs, particularly in Allied Health, are mandated by outside accrediting agencies to have a designated program head. 

  7. Program Heads

  8. Department Coordinator A faculty member qualified in the field will be assigned to coordinate the department.  The overall purpose of a Department Coordinator is to ensure quality instruction within the field of study. 

  9. Department Coordinators

  10. General Education Task Force • Affirm the general education competencies as defined by the VCCS • Identify CVCC general education student learning outcomes • Review results of the CVCC’s general education assessments • Identify the extent to which associate-degree graduates have attained general education outcomes • Identify action steps for continuous improvement

  11. Annual Schedule

  12. CVCC Assessment Cycle

  13. Schedule

  14. Schedule (cont.)

  15. Assessment Results Tiger, Bud Blake

  16. General Education • General education is that portion of the collegiate experience that addresses the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values characteristic of educated persons. It is unbounded by disciplines and honors the connections among bodies of knowledge. The associate degree programs within the VCCS support a collegiate experience that focuses on seven goal areas. The general education goal areas outlined are to be introduced in the foundational courses and enhanced in program and elective courses. ~ VCCS Policy Manual Table 5-1A

  17. General Education Goals • Communication • Critical Thinking • Cultural and Social Understanding • Information Literacy • Personal Development • Quantitative Reasoning • Scientific Reasoning

  18. General Education Assessment Results • ETS Proficiency Profile – Abbreviated form • Skills Subscores • Reading • Writing • Critical Thinking • Mathematics • Context-Based Subscores • Humanities • Social Sciences • Natural Sciences • Associate Degree Graduates

  19. Skills • Mathematics • Solving arithmetic problems with some complications such as embedded ratios and proportions. • Writing • Recognizing the most grammatically correct revision of a clause, sentence or group of sentences. • Reading • Recognizing factual material explicitly presented in a reading passage.

  20. Skills (Cont.) • Critical Thinking • Determining the relevance of information for evaluating an argument or conclusion. • Discerning the main idea, purpose, or focus of a passage or a significant portion of the passage.

  21. Program Viability In order to meet the SCHEV/VCCS viability standard using a 3-year average, programs must eithermeet the FTE or the graduate standard. 

  22. Graduate Survey Results Spring 2013

  23. Students Earning a Transfer Degree

  24. Other Program Outcomes • Success rate on certification exams • Job placement • Transfer rate • Success after transfer • The top five colleges and universities for General Studies AA&S transfer and graduation are: Lynchburg College, Liberty University, James Madison University, Old Dominion University, Virginia Tech • Between 2006-2012 74% of General Studies AA&S graduates enrolled in a 4-year college.

  25. Next Steps

  26. You want me to do what?

  27. You want me to do what? • Communicate • Innovate • Collaborate • Document, Document, Document

  28. Documentation • E-mails or documentation of other types of communication • Examples of assignments • Summarized Results • Rubrics, Portfolio Assignments • Meeting Minutes • Members present, including titles • Date (including year), time, location • Spell out acronyms

  29. Important Links • CVCC Employee Manual https://employee.cvcc.vccs.edu/Manual/Pages/Home.aspx • IE Website http://www.cvcc.vccs.edu/iesp/ • VCCS Policy Manual Section 5 http://www.vccs.edu/Portals/0/ContentAreas/PolicyManual/Sectn5.pdf • CVCC College Catalog http://www.cvcc.vccs.edu/Academics/Catalog/default.asp • SACS COC http://www.sacscoc.org/pol.asp

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