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Big Finish! Conduct Fall Assessments
Big Finish! Conduct Fall Assessments
Before the end of fall term, remember to conduct any student learning outcomes assessments you are slated to administer in your courses, and report students’ results to your unit. Need help? Contact Academic and Organizational Effectiveness
Unit leads, use your unit’s Three-Year Assessment Plan, located in your unit’s planning and assessment folder, to make notes about your outcomes assessments during the year. In your plan, find the blue-headings marked “2024-25 Activities, Results & Next Steps” by scrolling over from where you listed your selected outcomes and assessments.
Jot down notes about fall term activities. Did assessments happen as planned? What did the results look like? If your unit faculty have already reviewed results, what did you learn/decide? Doing this now or early Winter term will save you time in the spring.
Looking for assessment help? CAI is at your service!
Looking for assessment help? CAI is at your service!
The Center for Academic Innovation faculty are here to help with your outcomes assessment projects.
Here are the top three ways CAI faculty can help:
Canvas: You can automate outcomes assessment for your unit by linking assessments to course and/or program outcomes. CAI faculty can show you how. Once you do that, you’ll be able to see your students’ results over time, and you can look at those results in disaggregated formats. Usually faculty find this step is much less complicated than they expected, reports CAI’s Lauren Funderburg.
Outcomes: If you’re interested in revising outcomes for a course or for your program, CAI faculty can help with that too. Changing outcomes is less involved than changing a course or program, and typically just requires approval from your dean (and, for CTE, advisory committee).
Assessments: CAI faculty can help you talk through an assessment you would like to create or change, and (see #1) they can also help you get it set up in Canvas to automate results reporting.
If a project comes to mind, just reach out to the CAI faculty during their M-F office hours 9-10a or 2-3p at https://chemeketa.zoom.us/j/5033997873, or drop them a line to schedule another time to work on your project.
All information about their services appears on this CAI page, and these faculty are ready to help!
Lauren Funderburg, Faculty Support, lauren.funderburg@chemeketa.edu
Beth Hale, Technology Facilitator, beth.hale@chemeketa.edu
Bill Hamlin, Faculty Support, william.hamlin@chemeketa.edu
Colin Stapp, Technology Facilitator, colin.ensminger.stapp@chemeketa.edu
Click the image to access the CAI Support page.
General Education Outcomes Update
General Education Outcomes Update
Last spring, LOAC approved Chemeketa’s new General Education Outcomes, now in our college catalog,
Curiosity
Creativity
Critical Thinking
Communication
Competence
Compassion
The outcomes outline faculty’s shared educational vision for students as they complete general education coursework at Chemeketa. LOAC developed these outcomes in consultation with groups across the college over the course of two years of research and conversation.
Now LOAC is working to expand the impact of these outcomes on the student experience.
Following a successful proof-of-concept pilot last spring, students graduating with an AAOT will be asked to take a self-assessment regarding these outcomes throughout this academic year. The assessment design follows LOAC’s research into self-assessment as a learning strategy and similar designs at other colleges. Students rate the extent to which they feel they developed in these outcomes during their Chemeketa experiences.
Once the assessments have been collected throughout the year, LOACs General Education Outcomes subcommittee envisions broader faculty forums to review the results and strategize ways to emphasize and expand student gains in these outcomes. They also are exploring when to formally introduce students to the outcomes and potential methods to administer the self-assessment at a midpoint in a degree plan.
Stay tuned for updates in each LOAC newsletter this year.
LOAC: Have fun and make a difference!
LOAC: Have fun and make a difference!
Does making decisions about how Chemeketa approaches outcomes assessment sound interesting to you? Think about joining your awesome colleagues on LOAC! There are current CTE openings, and more openings on the horizon for 2025-26.
Having outcomes, and assessing the extent to which students are reaching them, are accreditation requirements, but each college is free to design its own approach to this work. At Chemeketa, faculty make those decisions so that our system design focuses on helping faculty teach and students learn.
For this approach to work, we need ongoing faculty involvement. If assessment sounds at all interesting to you, and you want faculty to continue to lead it, put LOAC on your list of your next possible service activities. We meet approximately 6 hours a year to decide directions for outcomes assessment. Most members serve on a subcommittee, but that is optional. Another options would be to serve on a subcommittee to be part of a smaller project, if you are interested in being involved but do not have capacity to serve on the full committee.
Contact this year’s LOAC Chair Nolan Mitchell for details, or write academiceffectiveness@chemeketa.edu to ask questions or let us know you are interested.
LOAC in the national spotlight: “Faculty Take The Lead”
LOAC in the national spotlight: “Faculty Take The Lead”
LOAC’s successful faculty-led design for making decisions about outcomes assessment for Chemeketa was featured at the annual Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, IN this October. Mary Ellen Scofield, who leads LOAC’s Communications subcommittee, told the LOAC story and explained its design in an early (7 a.m.!) presentation “Faculty Take the Lead: Shared Governance for Effective Outcomes Assessment.” Assessment professionals from across the country and beyond attend this event, and a few of them even got up early to come hear the tale.
If you’re curious, here are the presentation materials: text, slides, and handout. Special thanks to the humanities faculty who helped Mary Ellen prepare the presentation, including Art faculty Deanne Beausoleil, English faculty Tammy Jabin, Communications faculty Josie Wood, as well as Josie’s COMM111z 11:30a T-TH class, who graciously listened to a draft.
Assessment Almanac, in brief: Success!
Assessment Almanac, in brief: Success!
Success! The faculty below had success working with CAI to automate collecting their outcomes assessment results through Canvas this fall and summer. These programs now collect their outcomes assessment results through Canvas and will be able to review the results in Tableau after the term ends and over time in both aggregated and disaggregated formats.
Joleen Schilling - Horticulture
Rebecca Salinas-Oliveros - Cooperative Work Experience
Ashley Northam - Speech Language Pathology Assistant
Brian Covey - Automotive Technology
Curious about other faculty’s assessment successes? Read previous Assessment Almanac editions here
About the Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee at Chemeketa
About the Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee at Chemeketa
Faculty-led LOAC works with college departments and committees to design guidelines, processes, and infrastructure that support manageable, meaningful, useful outcomes assessment and results, shaped by faculty to support teaching and learning. Learn more at the LOAC Google Site. Check out our new “Definitions” page to help you get acquainted with outcomes assessment at Chemeketa!
Illustrations by Storyset.com
*Acronyms: These departments support LOAC/outcomes assessment and are mentioned many times in this newsletter. Feel free to reach out with questions!
*Acronyms: These departments support LOAC/outcomes assessment and are mentioned many times in this newsletter. Feel free to reach out with questions!
AOE: Academic and Organizational Effectiveness. This department manages our outcomes assessment plans and evidence. Contact academiceffectiveness@chemeketa.edu
IRR: Institutional Research and Reporting. This department, part of AOE, processes outcomes assessment data into Tableau reports. Contact colton.christian@chemeketa.edu
CAI: Center for Academic Innovation. This department manages support for faculty professional development and Canvas outcomes assessment. Contact academicinnovation@chemeketa.edu
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