The Senate Coordinating Committee has charged the Assessment Committee with developing a process for receiving and responding to departmental assessment plans.  This document includes a rationale and a process that the committee hopes will be helpful to departments and programs as they seek to improve through a deliberate and informative assessment process.

Rationale
The Assessment Committee’s role is to provide support and encouragement to departments and programs during any stage of the assessment process.  The goal is to provide useful feedback to departments and programs. Seeking feedback from the Assessment Committee is voluntary and optional, encouraged, but not required in the assessment process.

The Assessment Committee will provide advice and support regarding departmental assessment efforts and will comment on what departments are doing, not on their results.
Assessment at Concordia College is continually evolving, striving to move in directions that provide optimal information for departmental improvement efforts.  Assessment is a continual and ongoing enterprise; therefore, the Assessment Committee seeks to assist departments and programs throughout the assessment process.

Process
Departments are invited to solicit feedback from the Assessment Committee at any stage of the assessment process, from early drafts to data collection and analysis.  Departments may submit information to the Assessment Committee requesting written feedback.  Another option is that one or more representatives may choose to attend an Assessment Committee meeting to describe their process and to seek assistance.

It is not necessary that assessment plans are complete.  The members of the committee are eager to provide feedback during the development and implementation phases of departmental assessment.

The Assessment Committee will view departmental assessment data only if requested by departments.  For example, assessment results may be presented in order to solicit suggestions for analyzing the results, revising the plan, or for collecting further data.

The Assessment Committee is not authorized (nor are the present members of the Assessment Committee willing) to make judgments regarding departmental and programmatic assessment plans.  The Assessment Committee is not an approval body for assessment plans, but rather serves in a role as advisors/consultants.

The Assessment Committee is not a depository for assessment reports.  It functions as a peer feedback mechanism through which departments and programs can receive help and assistance with their assessment plans.
All information submitted to the Assessment Committee is confidential unless departments decide otherwise.
 

1999-2000 Assessment Committee:
Nick Ellig
Mark Jensen
Joan Kopperud
Morris Lanning
Susan Larson
Chuck Paulson
Andrew Ronnevik
Kay Schneider
James Springer
Michael Wohlfeil
 
 

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