Minutes March 10, 2017, 12:00 – 2:00pm LRC 201

Present: Thad Russell (co-chair), Sarah Harris (co-chair), Joshua Geist, Priscilla Pereschica (advisory), Ryan Barry-Souza (advisory)

Regrets: Joseph D’Agostino, Ramyar Alavi-Moghaddam, Carol Enns, Linda Flora, Anne Morris, James McDonnell

1. Call to OrderThe meeting was called to order at 12:00pm.

2. Comments/Questionsa. Regarding Items on the Agenda

No comments/questions.b. Regarding Items Not on the Agenda

No comments/questions.

3. Actiona. Review/approval of minutes from February 10, 2017

Because a quorum of members were not present, it was agreed by consensus to review the minutes electronically. Minutes were approved electronically with five yes votes and one abstention.

4. Unfinished/Ongoing Businessa. Research and Decision Making Assessment Planning

i. Direct Assessment Method: Sample CollectionSarah provided an update on sample selection and funds torecruit faculty raters. Funding has been confirmed for thisyear, with ongoing funding to be determined by actionableresults.

The committee reviewed potential recruitment materials to be sent to students in the sample, including a recruitment email and the Canvas website. The committee suggested re-titling the website “Research & Decision Making.” One committee member logged in to the site in a student role to provide feedback. The committee suggested limiting the submission types to file uploads and website links, and made some suggestions to limit and simplify the amount of descriptive text in the Canvas site and the emails. Following revisions, students in the sample will receive an

Members

Co-Chairs: Thad Russell Sarah Harris

Faculty: Ramyar Alavi-Moghaddam-ICT Joseph D’Agostino-PE Carol Enns-PHIL Linda Flora-SCI Joshua Geist-LARTS James McDonnell-FINA Anne Morris-NURS

Advisory: Priscilla Pereschica-Research Office

2016-2017 Initiatives

1. Provide training, resources,and incentives for faculty tocomplete outcomesassessment and completemapping to ILO’s

2. Create and publicize anassessment cycle forinstitutional learning outcomes

3. Review and revisecommittee bylaws to increasemembership and participation

4. Conduct standard business

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invitation to join the project and submit work by mid-March. The committee also briefly discussed the possibility of aligning GE assessment with ILO assessment in future in order to coordinate data collection.

b. Committee Bylaws Revision Sarah updated the group on revisions created in response to feedback from the prior meeting. The group suggested updating the definition of quorum to “more than 50%” instead of “50% plus one.” We then agreed through consensus to send the updated version of the bylaws out to the membership for electronic vote. The revised bylaws were subsequently approved via email, with six yes votes.

5. New Business a. Dialogue Day Report Sarah gave an update on the Dialogue Days general session. Twenty faculty members participated with a lot of positive feedback from participants; the committee will plan to continue this event each Dialogue Day, with a fall convocation day used to focus group and discuss ILO assessment, Fall DD for distribution and closing the loop on that assessment, and a Spring session for assessment planning. DD Reporting forms are out to participating divisions, and once they are returned Sarah will create a larger report of the day’s events. b. Fall Convocation Planning Sarah discussed the idea of planning a convocation session similar to this past Fall’s session with multiple presenters, and asked the group to think of faculty who might be interested in presenting. Potential presentation topics suggested included the learning mastery gradebook and data disaggregation.

6. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned.

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