1. AGENDA
EIGHTH AMCOA MEETING
FEBRUARY 29, 2012, 10:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M.
HOSTED BY: NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE
I. Welcome: President Lane Glenn, Northern Essex Community College
II. Updates and Foci of Next Two Working Sessions: Peggy Maki (Please
sign up for leading a group, contributing an institutionally developed
scoring rubric that demonstrates critical thinking or quantitative
reasoning, or submitting an exit-level student sample)
III. Update on the Fourth Statewide Assessment Conference: Jim Gubbins
IV. Summaries of Two Assessment Experiments: Susan Chang, Director of
Assessment, Framingham State University, and Joanne M. Preston,
Dean of Humanities, Bristol Community College (Summary of all six
experiments is posted on Yammer.)
V. Summary of New Davis Proposal: Pat Crosson, Senior Advisor for
Academic Policy
VI. Introduction of Faculty Participating in Today’s Working Session and
Group Leaders; Orientation to Today’s Working Session Focused on
Assessing Exit-Level Student Writing: Peggy Maki

2. MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THE FOLLOWING EVENTS:
Dates and Foci of Next Two Meetings:
March 26th: Working Session on Scoring Critical Thinking
May 1st: Working Session on Scoring Quantitative Reasoning
Fourth AMCOA Conference:
April 23, 2012: Statewide assessment conference at UMass-
Boston: “Improving Student Learning: Gathering, Distributing
and Acting on the Evidence,” 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.