Meeting Topic: Information Literacy Assessment Committee

Attendees:

Time/Date/Location: 

12 PM, Oct 18, 2013, DB225

Agenda

1. Blueprint
2. Updates from Assessment Steering Committee
1. Assessment canvas course - our contribution - what should we build? volunteers?
2. other training materials? - should we build pre/post test on canvas for easy admin?
3. Syllabus statement about assessment
4. Spring activity, “You have data, now what?”
5. Possible changes to assessment committee structure. 1 assessment committee and 14 department assessment coordinators
3. Updates from any other departments doing Info Lit Assessment?

• English – they are interpreting their results now (having assessed ENG101/102 last year) and will be recommending action

• Counseling – they are designing instrument for assessing one-on-one sessions with students (referrals to social services, for instance). Elena met with counseling faculty the week of Sept. 16 to discuss further. Jan Binder also attended.
  

• Behavioral Science – Andrea will follow up with Marian.

• Biology – Elena will follow up.

• Liberal Arts – they are also interpreting results.
  

• Health/Wellness – Elena called to their dept meeting Sept 30
  

• Communication, ESL, Education – they are looking at info literacy. CRE courses, though, will only be looking at critical thinking.

Action Items

• Future meeting dates: Nov 8, Feb 14, Apr 11