faculty driven assessment karla guilford shipp tidewater community college virginia beach, va
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Faculty Driven Assessment
Karla Guilford Shipp
Tidewater Community College
Virginia Beach, VA
TCC Facts
• 14th largest public two-year community college in the U.S.
• The second largest provider of undergraduate public education in Virginia
• Largest undergraduate African American enrollment in Virginia higher education—7th largest associate degree producer among two-year colleges for African American students
• The 164th largest associate degree producer in the U.S. among two-year institutions
• 12 nationally accredited degree programs
• 55% White, 34% African American, 11% other minorities
• 56% receive financial aid
Four Campuses
Chesapeake Virginia Beach
Four Campuses
Norfolk Portsmouth
Dr. Daniel DeMarte
The man with a dream.
Our Mission • Revamp Assessment at TCC
from the Ground Up
• Get everyone at TCC involved and on board
• Develop an Assessment Plan
• To complete 10 years of assessment in 5 years.
Assessment at TCC
• SACSCOC Accreditation Requirement
• SCHEV/VCCS Core Competency Assessments
• Transfer & Career Technical degree program TCC graduates
• Select group of TCC graduates for non-random standardized test (from JMU)
• No faculty/curriculum connection nor student stake = no measure of student learning
Before
The Plan
• Develop the foundation and implementation of a strategic plan - for evaluating and assessing student learning outcomes in 7 core competencies - approved in policy by the State Board for Community Colleges
– a critical part of the College’s reaffirmation of accreditation by SACS
Pitfalls
• No common Course Outlines
• Outlines without measurable learning outcomes
• How to use VCCS Competencies
Solution
• Faculty Workshop: Creating Measurable Course-level Learning Outcomes
• Faculty discussions and collaboration
• Standardized format for all courses taught at TCC
• Mapping of General Education competencies in all course outlinesFall‘11
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”So that we are all on the same page, how
should we assess our methods?
Answers1. Make one assignment for every course.
2. Use Portfolios
3. Make our own rubrics
4. This too shall pass.
Solution
AAC& U Value Rubrics
College Wide Faculty Training
Spring ‘12
AAC&U presentationIntroduction of RubricsRubric revision breakout sessions for Written Communication, Quantitative Reasoning and Information Literacy (IL)Pilot assessment for Written Communication & IL in fall ‘13Student work products = projects, essays, papers, e-portfolios, etc.
First Scoring Session
Results
• Teacher assignments did not cover content of rubrics
• Did not train adjunct faculty
• i-INCURR Curriculum Portal implementation
• Fall and Spring Learning Institutes focus totally on Assessment
• Development of the TOOL (Tidewater Online Outcomes Logistic)
’12-’13
Present Day
Assessment • All notifications/work products
are electronically submitted
• General Education Assessment Resource System (GEARS) is set up
• Faculty Assessment coaches work directly with campuses
Rubric Result Uses • Program Reviews
• Division Goal setting
• Individual Professional Development plans
2014-
2015
Conclusion