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Progress towards compliance:
Craven continues its progress in identifying and assessing program outcomes demonstrated by its students by April 30, 2007 as demonstrated by the following:
Summer 2006
A task force of deans,department chairs, and program directors and subcommittee of the Institutional Effectiveness Committee held brainstorming sessions to identify gaps in information currently available about program success (student demographics, progress toward goal, etc.). Those groups also identified future measures by the college to gather relevant information about student learning plans.
Current advisory committee membership was compiled from program faculty, chairs, and directors, and transferred to the Institutional Effectiveness office. This office will update these lists by September 1, 2006 for a Presidential appointment letter and invitation to early November College wide meeting.
Craven created a halftime position of Assessment Coordinator reporting directly to the Chief Academic Officer to support the development and assessment of general education and program outcomes. A full-time faculty member was selected to serve in this role through reassigned time.
All program directors, department chairs, and division deans were provided the text Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education, by Barbara E. Walvoord (2004) to be used as a resource for their work with faculty.
Sample program outcomes from other colleges were compiled, and shared with Instructional Deans, Chairs, and Directors at a meeting of the Instructional Administrators on August 3, 2006. Their responsibility in assisting faculty in articulating the outcomes, and identifying assessment tools was explained.
Fall 2006
Opening Day for the College (August 17, 2006) will include a session for all fulltime faculty to focus on "Program and General Education Outcomes and Assessment". Specifically, the Chief Academic Officer will provide an overview of Learning Outcomes and Assessment, and then the Assessment Coordinator will provide program faculty an overview of components of student learning outcomes, a primer on how to write outcomes, a list of possible assessment methods (direct and indirect) and a template for documenting the outcomes and assessment. Faculty will be provided the following resources for this working session: mission/purpose of unit, North Carolina curriculum standards, external program accreditation requirements, syllabi, brochures, etc.). By the end of the session, program faculty will have a broad understanding of program outcomes and assessment, and the next steps involved.
Beginning August 24, each program's faculty and Chair/Director will meet with the Assessment Coordinator at least twice to develop/revise program outcomes and means for direct assessment, with drafts due to Division Deans by October 6, 2006, and to the Chief Academic Officer by Friday, October 13, 2006.
Approved program outcomes and assessment tools and other progress will be shared with the Institutional Effectiveness Committee by October 24, 2006.
At the College wide Advisory Committee meeting in early November, each program's advisory committee will review and provide input to each individual program's outcomes and assessment. Input will be considered and revisions to outcomes and means for assessment will completed by Friday, November 17.
Program outcomes will be published on the Craven Community College Web site and on course syllabi in January 2007 and in the 2007-08 General Catalog.
The program review process will begin Spring 2007 for selected programs and evaluation will occur on a three-year cycle. Results will be communicated to faculty and instructional administration, with the data gathered informing college goals, and driving budgetary allocations for fiscal year 2007-2008.
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