3357:12-14-75-1-Assessment of Student Learning Procedures (Assessment Committee)

PROCEDURE GUIDELINES

Every academic program on campus and selected co-curricular programs, irrespective of enrollment, will submit an annual assessment of student knowledge, including College-wide outcomes, program outcomes, and course-level outcomes.

This annual assessment is due on the first Monday in June.
In addition, each program or activity will align assessment activities with the current college-wide outcomes.

College-wide outcome data will be generated every semester for the academic programs. During the first week of the semester, the Director of Assessment will run a report identifying which courses scheduled within that semester have a College-Wide Outcome assessment listed on the syllabus. This list will be delivered to the Dean. The Dean will notify faculty of the presence of a CWO on their syllabus for the course they are teaching. Faculty will complete the rubric in Blackboard within that semester.
Each fall, faculty will receive the college-wide student outcomes results from Blackboard for their program students from the previous Fall and Spring Semesters. This data will be collected and distributed by the Chief Academic Officer’s office.

Faculty will be expected to add this data to their Program Review Assessment annually. Additionally, analysis of the College-Wide Outcome trends for their programs must be addressed on the annual Program Assessment Report, just as the trends of the program outcomes are discussed and analyzed.
Co-curricular activities and College-Wide Outcome data will be generated continually during program activities, but will be submitted to the assessment committee annually. They are due on the first Monday in June. The assessment committee will review these reports collectively at the beginning of the Fall Semester.

All reviews by the assessment committee will result in follow-up letters to the departments/programs and their supervisors. The follow-up letter will address the strengths of the program/department assessment activities/results, opportunities for improvement, and any needed follow-up with the assessment committee in light of the review.

In general education courses where students are completing a transfer degree in that discipline, the outcomes assessed will be to determine how best the course(s) prepare the students for transfer in their field of study. This type of assessment is analogous to the technical program, Assessment Reports, which are due the first Monday in June.
Faculty in general education support courses may assess students according to the predominant purpose of the course. For general education courses where the majority of students are in other programs and the course is a support course, the outcomes may be assessed to determine how best the course supports the technical programs the students are enrolled in. This will normally be done by either deploying one of the college-wide outcome rubrics or developing support course outcomes with the technical programs.

Procedure Owner	Academic Services, CAO
Procedure Reviewers	Academic Services, CAO
Related Policies	Assessment of Student Learning Policy (Assessment Committee)
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