Spring Assessment Week 2025
HIGH NOON FOR ASSESSMENT: IT'S TIME TO GET REAL
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Assessment Is Wicked Good #CurriculumThatCounts
After you’ve ridden your one-hour trail, hitch your results to the GAUCHO 2025 Assessment Survey and help us turn our GEAR gold! The last day to mosey into town with your submission is May 9th—let’s strike gold by then, pardner!
How to Ride with the Assessment Posse
How to Ride with the Assessment Posse
The goal of Assessment Week is to:
demonstrate that every member of our community shows up at high noon to support student learning improvement,
strengthen our academic and cocurricular program and institutional assessment efforts,
complete all reports that document our work for internal and external stakeholders, and
make progress on our Knowledge, Excellence, and Action Assessment Strategic Commitments.
This event is for every employee dedicated to improving student success...
to identify 1 assessment task related to their position at the college...
and spend 1 hour working on that task during Spring Assessment Week.
Your One-Hour Roundup
Your One-Hour Roundup
We’re calling on all employees to saddle up and complete the activity for their crew—Faculty Frontierfolk, Program Pardners, or Roundup Riders—then ride on over to submit the GAUCHO 2025 Assessment Survey to be added to the High Noon Honor Roll. This is a one-hour ride, and the insights gathered are pure gold—helping us document our assessment work and improve the student experience.
Ride 1 of these 3 ranges!
Pick the best range that allows you to do something meaningful for YOU!
Faculty Frontierfolk
For all Residential and Adjunct faculty teaching in any Academic Program.
Program Leads: Complete Phase 1 of your program map.
Contributing Faculty: Review & reflect on your map and identify a current assessment that supports a PLO. OR Share any meaningful assessment story.
All Faculty: Complete your ILOs.
Learn more here: Faculty Frontierfolk
Need Help? Visit the High Noon Helpdesk!
Program Pardners
For all Staff, Faculty, and Administrators who support Academic or Cocurricular Programs.
Review & reflect on a relevant academic program map.
OR Review & reflect on the cocurricular program map draft to provide feedback on its structure and potential use in your area.
Learn more here: Program Pardners
Need Help? Visit the High Noon Helpdesk!
Roundup Riders
For all Staff and Administrators supporting the college operations that make teaching & learning possible.
Assess your work! Consider the assessment-intervention-reassessment steps and reflect on a work task or process you’ve improved or could improve.
OR Visit the Triple L Ranch and lasso one of their range jobs.
Learn more here: Roundup Riders
Need Help? Visit the High Noon Helpdesk!
Visit the Triple L Ranch
Visit the Triple L Ranch
Wrangle any 3 activities to lasso your prize, or finish your Program Map and you’re an instant winner! Swing through the doors of the Triple L Ranch and see if you luck holds in the Lucky Lasso Lottery.
🤠 Ride with your crew: Complete your Frontierfolk, Pardners, or Riders task
🔥 Saddle up to the High Noon Helpdesk or swing by a DAC Campfire Chat
🐎 Reflect on how CTLE’s Teaching in the Wild West fuels your assessment journey
📽 Tune in to a live or recorded assessment roundup (see the Triple L Ranch page for pickin's)
📚 Mosey over to the GCC Library’s Anniversary Party and reflect on how its tools can support your work
📜 Read the Tuesday Tidbits Daily Dispatch for the latest from the assessment trail
🎩 Tip your hat to a colleague and recognize their contribution to assessment
🌵 Blaze your own trail by wrangling an assessment task that fits your role
🎯 INSTANT WINNER: Stake your claim by completing your Program Map
High Noon Helpdesk
High Noon Helpdesk
Our assessment wranglers are standin’ by, ready to lend a hand. See the schedule below for our 🔥DAC Campfire Chats, 🎓GCC events, or 🇺🇸National Assessment Week events.
Visit the ☀️High Noon Helpdesk: General Store with any trail troubles or curiosities. You may be scratchin' your head about how to complete your Spring Assessment Week task, use assessment data, respond to artificial intelligence, meet federal compliance requirements, or more.
Come ‘round the ☀️High Noon Helpdesk: Chuckwagon for our special fixins when the bell rings. You may be hankerin' for information about Academic or Cocurricular Program Mapping, updates to next year's Course Assessment form, or how we will use our ILO data to support General Education.
Click on any event to learn more!
+ Copy to my calendar is available in the lower right corner of the event details pop-up.
Stake Your Claim: Assessment Survey
Stake Your Claim: Assessment Survey
Complete the GAUCHO 2025 Assessment Survey to be added to the High Noon Honor Roll.
Roll Call from the Range
Roll Call from the Range
147 riders have saddled up and submitted the GAUCHO 2025 Assessment Survey!
Heard 'Round the Range
Lovin that there new GAUCHO website.
The processes made me think about "holes" we may have in our BARR curriculum.
I listened to the Two Profs in a Pod: Reaching All Students podcast. I think about how the college executive team can lead by providing resources for faculty to develop and deploy assessment strategies to help each student starting where they are such as frequent, low stakes testing to inform teaching strategies.
A key focus of my work has been operationalizing funds and growing donor retention [...] By prioritizing stewardship and ensuring that available funds are being actively used to support students and programs, we are strengthening relationships with our donors and honoring their intent.
I learned 11 things I should know about assessment. In particular number 7 was interesting to me because I work in Student Affairs.
Associate in Arts, Emphasis in Communication – I read the major (8124) description and was surprised! I was especially shocked to see that, in my own field, we claim to prepare students for roles like Social Media Coordinator, yet there aren’t any classes I would confidently point to that actually teach social media, coordination, or organizational skills.
Trail Talk: Daily Dispatches
Trail Talk: Daily Dispatches
2025.04.03 President's Message Spring Assessment Week.pdfPresident's Message
2025 It’s High Noon for Assessment at GCC! GCC Employee Intranet.pdfEmployee Intranet Announcement
2025.04.09 VPAA's Message Spring Assessment Week.pdfVPAA's Message
The Code of the Assessment West
The Code of the Assessment West
Knowledge of Assessment: In order for assessment to lead to meaningful learning improvement, we need to understand what assessment is and how to do it. GCC is also committed to the Transparency Framework, making assessment efforts visible to internal and external stakeholders.
Excellence in Assessment: Broad participation in assessment by full-time and part-time employees throughout Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and Administrative Services helps us generate a more representative sample of learning outcome data upon which to act.
Action from Assessment: We ask you to play your part in serving our students by utilizing assessment data to improve the student learning experience. We also ask for your support as CART works to support program-specific and college-wide action to improve our Program and Institutional Outcomes.
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