Concordia College Assessment Mini-grant Recipients
2008-2009
Concordia College Assessment Mini-grant Recipients
2008-2009
Nursing: Funding for Assessment Technologies Incorporated (ATI).
Religion: Funding for departmental assessment retreat.
Concordia College Assessment Mini-grant Recipients
2007-2008
CSTA: Create rubrics, analyze data collected in spring 2007, revise past methods, revisit objectives/outcomes/measures.
English: Identify goals, outcomes, and strategies for assessing IWC portfolios.
English literature: Assessment of program.
Nursing: Implement Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI) assessment and review program to prepare students for NCLEX exams.
Philosophy: Review portfolios, develop evaluations of portfolios, and prepare summary of findings.
Religion: Refine assessment plan.
Concordia College Assessment Mini-grant Recipients
2006-2007
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Business: Four subgroups/subdisciplines of
faculty members will use rubrics to review assessment information,
including exams, papers, cases, presentations, and preceptor
evaluations. Chemistry: Discuss the new faculty line in light of the external review, the new College curriculum, the departmental learning objectives, results of this year’s ETS Major Field Test, and results of the American Chemical Society Standardized tests. Evaluate the newly designed curriculum goals/learning outcomes and consider how they may impact the department. Classical Studies: Tabulate, interpret, and discuss assessment information (including exams, surveys, and portfolios) collected over the past year. Education: Develop an assessment feedback form for classroom supervisors at all clinical levels. English: Engage in syllabi review with the intent of more effectively conveying goals/student learning outcomes and improving students’ understanding of the expectations for English courses. French: Faculty will participate in a retreat to develop and implement an assessment plan. Math/Computer Science: Revise mission statements, modify assessment plans, create assessment timelines, and plan for implementation of the new assessment efforts in fall 2006. Music: Develop and implement a plan to assess private music lessons. Nursing: Review and revise current documentation of our departmental assessment and provide evidence of how the department follows through and utilizes assessment findings. Philosophy: Review portfolios, develop a written assessment of each student, and prepare a summary report for department-wide discussion. Political Science: Develop a rubric for the assessment of take-home written exams in the 411 course, to use the rubric to assess the exams, and to have discussions about your findings. Social Work: Measure, analyze, discuss, and report program on your assessment plan. Sociology: Develop strategies and implement them in response to external consultant's recommendations. Spanish: Develop new procedures for implementing the case study and administer modified oral proficiency interviews. |
Concordia College Assessment
Mini-grant
Recipients
2005-2006
Biology: Purchase major field test.
Chemistry: Discuss field exam and ACS exam results in the context of external review and curriculum revision.
Classical Studies: Faculty will meet for three days to determine learning outcomes and develop an assessment plan to assess the outcomes.
Education: Develop new assessment methods to assess scientific-based reading instruction.
English: Review assessment information, draft a new curriculum, and develop curriculum proposals for submission to appropriate committees.
Nursing: Faculty retreat for administration, analysis, and communication of results of two assessment surveys and standardized tests. The department would like time for developing/enhancing the assessment plan for the graduate nursing program.
Philosophy: Review portfolios, use a rubric to evaluate the portfolios, develop a written assessment of each student, and prepare a summary report for department-wide discussion.
Principia: Establish inter-rater reliability for the assessment of final projects and write a comprehensive report of results.
Psychology: Discuss the past year's assessment results, compare these results with previous years, and consider possible curriculum changes.
Religion: Honorarium for a colleague to conduct interviews and write a report of results.
Social Work: Disseminate the alumni survey and employer survey, for data entry, analysis of results, and discussion of changes to be made as a result of the assessment activities.
Spanish: Prepare report of assessment results.
Concordia College Assessment
Mini-grant
Recipients
2004-2005
Nursing: Discuss assessment results for the two surveys and the standardized tests and design assessment strategies for the new graduate program.
Philosophy: Review the current assessment plan, evaluate the plan's design and execution, and consider new initiatives.
Principia:
Establish
inter-rater reliability for the scoring method, assess 52 final projects, and
write a report of results.
Social Work: Dissemination of the alumni survey and
employer survey, for data entry, analysis of results, and discussion of changes
to be made as a result of the assessment activities.
Women's Studies: Review of the current assessment
plan, review of other institutions’ assessment plans, and possible revision
of the assessment plan for the Women’s Studies Program.
Concordia College Assessment
Mini-grant
Recipients
2003-2004
Chemistry: Administration of ETS field test. Review the past year’s assessment results, modify the assessment plan for the Seminar course, and discuss a new format for the capstone course
English: Assessment of writing portfolios and discussion of how results can be used to modify the major.
Family and Nutrition Sciences: Review assessment results,
evaluate new assessment tools, develop new assessment methods, and discuss
uses of assessment information.
French: Review upper-level student papers and conduct oral
proficiency interviews.
Health/Physical Education: Review of assessment data, review findings of the self study process, and development of initial steps in implementing curricular changes.
History: Review the research logs (to assess bibliographical research skills) for History 410 Research Seminar. Discuss the implications for curriculum and teaching methods.
Music: Develop an assessment plan for the Music Department, including a computerized exam and aural exam.
Nursing: Revision of one year and five year alumni surveys, revision of assessment plan to reflect new initiatives, analysis of critical thinking test results, and analysis of data from standardized tests, preceptor evaluations and employer surveys.
Sociology: Hire external consultant to conduct focus groups of graduating seniors.
Spanish: Discuss self study findings, review assessment plan, and modify curriclum.
Women's Studies Program: Review the current assessment plan,
review other institutions’ assessment plans, and possibly revise the assessment
plan for the Women’s Studies Program.
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Concordia College Assessment
Mini-grant Recipients
Summer and Fall 2002
Chemistry: Develop the seminar course as an assessment/capstone course, discuss the results of the ETS field test, and assess the results of the ACS tests.
English: Gather, interpret and discuss assessment information and discuss modifications to the curriculum.
Health/Physical Education: Analyze and discuss assessment information collected during 2000-01 and 2001-02.
Math/Computer Science: Discuss results from current assessment activities and to develop plans for implementing assessment in 2002-03.
Social Work: Supplies, postage, student data entry and faculty stipends for implementing assessment plan.
Sociology: Discuss assessment results, possible modifications to the curriculum, and possible alternate and/or additional methods of assessing student learning in the major.
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Concordia College Assessment
Mini-grant Recipients
2001-2002
Biology: Purchase major field exams.
Chemistry: Discuss results of several assessment activities, discuss modifying seminar course to include assessment activities, and compile a report of assessment activities.
Computer Science: Revise student learning goals, align those goals with upcoming assessment activities, and develop plans to implement assessment in 2001-02.
Communication Studies and Theatre Art: Assessment of students' ability to think theoretically and express themselves using discipline-specific vocabulary in "theory" courses.
English Writing: Assess students' poetry, manuscript, and nonfiction writing portfolios.
Family Nutrition Science: Review
alumni survey results and other assessment results for each of the three
FNS
programs. Develop a plan to continue assessment
and curriculum revision for 2001-02.
History: Implement assessment
of the senior capstone course. Hold a faculty retreat to discuss results
of the
assessment, define strategies for improving
students' skills, and develop an alumni survey.
Library: Identify, based on ACRL
standards, information literacy standards for integration into a sample
of Discourse
classes. Develop strategies to pilot test newly
designed information literacy assignments in several sections of Discourse
fall semester of 2001. Conduct analysis
of surveys and bibliographies to assess library instruction.
Math: Revise student learning goals, align those goals with upcoming assessment activities, and develop plans to implement assessment in 2001-02.
Nursing: Administer, analyze,
and communicate results of two surveys and two tests which are components
of
the department's assessment plan.
Physics: Implement portfolio assessment for majors and minors.
Principia: Develop and administer a survey of student learning outcomes to assess the Principia film series.
Psychology: Evaluate assessment
data, re-evaluate the assessment plan, and work to ensure that faculty
ratings of
critical thinking measures are consistent.
Social Work: Purchase alumni survey
instruments, purchase values inventory instruments, reimbursement for
mailing
costs for alumni survey, and sponsor membership
in BEAP.
Spanish: Create primary trait analysis for use in analyzing pre- and post-business writing samples. Conduct assessment of the study abroad program at the University of Navarra, including revision of a questionnaire and development of primary trait analysis for assessment of literature papers.
Theatre: Implement assessment of student portfolios
for theatre majors.
