Assessment Committee Goals
2003 - 2004
1. Develop a division-wide commitment to doing high-quality, on-going, and comprehensive assessment programs. This is an educational task, one that informs, demystifies, and demonstrates the payoffs of assessment.
- Provide in-service programming to Department Heads.
- Develop a plan for in-service training, workshops, etc., to all staff involved in assessment.
2. Develop an understanding of the current status of assessment activities. This involves doing an inventory of present assessment activities.
- Ask Department Heads to complete a report on the type (s) of assessment currently in place. The Committee will provide the format of the report.
- The Committee will act as the assessment clearinghouse.
3. Develop a division-wide plan of assessment. This is a task involving coordination, education, and consultation.
- Assess programs not people.
- Individual Committee members can serve as consultants to colleagues within the division.
- Plan will include in-service education, suggestions for strengthening current assessment activities within the Departments, as well as suggestions for expanding assessment activities.