Forging Assessment Communities

1. Forging Assessment Communities Using Rubrics Effectively Susan Wood, Assessment Coordinator Doña Ana Community College

2. Assessment = Scholarship “Your state university has been offering instruction in writing for decades, but is that university any better now than before at teaching people to write? Over the years, it has doubtless enlisted wonderful individual talents in that task, but does it now know more—corporately—about how to accomplish it? If it practiced a scholarship of teaching, it would (Marchese, 2000).”

3. Bridging Theory and Practice Assessment-friendly Communities Technology of Assessment (RUBRICS) Theory of Assessment

4. Steps to building Assessment-friendly Communities Start with a learning challenge Call for volunteers to address the challenge Express individual educational values and expectations connected to the challenge Identify/establish commonly held criteria to assess

5. Assessment Community Rubric

6. Three Examples: Using Rubrics -- Effectively? • Example one:Creation of English Program Rubric • Example two:First attempt to create and use a WAC Rubric • Example three:Second attempt to create and use a WAC Rubric

7. WAC Taskforce Accomplishments • A tool to help teachers design writing assignments • A tool to help teachers assess their writing assignments • A writing-across-the curriculum rubric to evaluate student-writing campus-wide

8. General Education Assessment Committee CXC Subcommittee MXC Subcommittee GEAC CTXC Subcommittee EXC Subcommittee