1. Academic Assessment Plan:
“under construction”
Robert Carey, Shelley Dixon, Anastasia
Pratt, Rosalyn Rufer, Jordan Wright
Virtual Fall Academic Conference
October 24, 2012

2. Agenda
Purpose and Charge
Accomplishments Thus Far
Proposed Timeline
Request for Feedback

3. Purpose and Charge
• Advance academic plan
• Connect to college learning goals
• Engage college community
• Promote a “culture of assessment”
• Make visible the invisible – “closing the loop”
• Add value – internal and external audiences
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4. Student Learning Outcomes and Internal
Audience
Reflect on student learning Studies reflect primary learning
outcomes – engage in goals – i.e. Academic Plan and
continual improvement AOS
Faculty
Provide support to Develop
faculty for process Guidelines and
of continual OAA AOS assess
improvement Quality programmatic
student learning
Student
Learning
Reflect on learning and relationship
to professional Primary
and personal goals Students
Mentors Work with students to
cover learning goals
in DP
Demonstrate learning
through assignments

5. External Audiences
• Middle States
• SUNY
• Community
• Government at all levels

6. Accomplishments
Inventory of
what is
already
available
Alignment of
Goals
Communication
and
Outcomes
Academic
Assessment
Plan
Area of
Front-End Study and
Assessment Program
Participation

7. Inventory of what is already available
"making the invisible visible”
AOS/Program
Informal,
Pre and post
Center-level
No consistent workshop
Trainings for
practice across assessments
Adjuncts and
the College of knowledge
Practices for
at the library
Center personnel

8. C-PIE
National
Survey of
SALE Survey
Student
Engagement
GEAR and Course
Fact Book Completion
Reports reports

9. Communication
Implementing the
Plan
Determining the
on-going
leadership
Getting buy-in
Creating a plan
for
communication

10. Area of Study and Program Participation
How often do you and your peers review and revise AOS/Program guidelines?
Do your AOS/Program guidelines contain any specific assessment methods/tools, e.g., rubrics, capstone
studies, projects, etc?
Does your AOS/Program include specific concentration/major guidelines?
Does your AOS/Program include SUNY General Education requirement guidelines?
Do your AOS/Program peers communicate as a group in addition to the required ESC annual meetings?
Do your AOS/Program guidelines reflect the college level learning goals?

11. Front-End Assessment
1) What do we need to • Learning Objectives and Goals
know about a student as • Skills
the student begins an • Motivation for seeking college-level
application and orientation learning experiences
(semester long) process?
2) What do • Admissions/Information Sessions
students, prospective and • Orientation
admitted need to know-- (as it is now versus a semester-long
and when in the process do process of orientation)
they need to know it? • Educational Planning

12. Alignment of Goals and Outcomes
Levels of Achieving
Outcomes Rationale Alignment
Contexts for Implementation Assessing
outcomes Aligned
assessment Learning
and Outcomes
alignment

13. Levels of Alignment
College Mission
Strategic Plan
Academic Plan
College-Level Learning Goals
Program-Level Outcomes
General Education
LC/Individual Courses

14. Rationale for Alignment
One College
Maintaining Freedom and Ensuring Security
For Students For Mentors
Maintain Know that LC’s are
individualized consistent with college-
learning wide and AOS goals

15. Gaps
– Student responses. The information available from the
National Survey of Student Engagement and SALE surveys is
incomplete for these purposes.
– More participation from AOS, Programs, and Centers.
How can we effectively reach the entire College community?
How can we encourage responses to survey questions?

16. Proposed Timeline
• VFAC – October 2012
• Initial rough draft to CUSP and GSPC – Dec/Jan 2013
• Center discussions – Jan/Feb 2013
• Revised draft – presentation at All College – March 2013
• Final draft to provost – June 2013

17. Request for Feedback
• Communication Plan
– Commons website
– Task Force members
– AOS groups
– Updates through Exchange

18. Task Force Members
Bob Carey Mark Miyake
Nan DiBello Bridget Nettleton
Shelley Dixon Anastasia Pratt
Greg Edwards Heather Reynolds
John Eisler Dawn Riley
Marnie Evans Roz Rufer
Jonathan Franz Jim Savitt
Sabrina Fuchs Abrams Michael Spitzer
Linda Hamell Sharon Szymanski
Rebecca Hegel Peggy Tally
Dongho Kim Angela TitiAmayah
Mindy Kronenberg Amy Tweedy
Marjorie Lavin Jordan Wright
Thalia MacMillan Jim Wunsch
Mary Mawn