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T IDEWATER C OMMUNITY C OLLEGE Closing the General Education Assessment Loop: Beyond Faculty Pedagogy Kellie Sorey, Associate Vice President for Academics Jennifer Ferguson, Director of General Education Assessment & Transfer Partnerships


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Closing the General Education Assessment Loop: Beyond Faculty Pedagogy

TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Kellie Sorey, Associate Vice President for Academics Jennifer Ferguson, Director of General Education Assessment & Transfer Partnerships

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Assessment Drivers

VCCS General Education Assessment SACSCOC Findings

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Pilot Program

  • Assessment Coaches
  • Rubric development
  • Course selection/faculty notification
  • Small sample size
  • GEA Assessors-training
  • Paper collection
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Assessment Findings

Scientific Reasoning

Dimension Overall Career/Tech Transfer

Argument or Topic 1.78 (.81) 2.00 (.80) 1.69 (.81) Selection N=29 N=8 N=21 Existing Knowledge, 1.41 (.77) 1.28 (.94) 1.48 (.70) Research and/or Views N=29 N=9 N=20 Methodology 1.81 (1.05) 1.75 (1.13) 1.83 (1.06) N=24 N=6 N=18 Analysis 1.62 (.81) 1.57 (.79) 1.64 (.83) N=29 N=7 N=22 Conclusions, Limitations 1.33 (.78) 1.17 (.83) 1.41 (.77) And Implications N=29 N=9 N=20

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  • Cumbersome notification, collection and assessment

process

What have we learned about process?

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  • More assessors (more training opportunities)
  • Greater sample size
  • Increased credit hours—30 to 45
  • Assess less, reflect more

What have we learned about process?

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  • Too many competencies checked

What have we learned from data?

Competency Supporting Courses Written and Oral Communication 1080 Critical Thinking 1171 Cultural and Social Understanding 503 Information Literacy 902 Quantitative Reasoning 596 Scientific Reasoning 471 Personal Development 418

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What have we learned from data?

Pre-Review/Change Post Review/Change Written Communication

  • Written Communication

50 Oral Communication

  • Oral Communication

5 Critical Thinking 79 Critical Thinking 64 Cultural and Social Understanding 60 Cultural and Social Understanding 52 Information Literacy 52 Information Literacy 29 Quantitative Reasoning 20 Quantitative Reasoning 12 Scientific Reasoning 26 Scientific Reasoning 27 Personal Development 17 Personal Development 10

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  • Communication - split
  • More assessors, more training
  • New Faculty Academy
  • GEARS & Participation from Instruction

Committee

  • Batten Centers
  • Academic Standards Policy
  • General Education Course Approval Process

What have we learned from data?

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What have we learned from data?

  • Awareness campaign
  • Faculty ownership
  • Institutional resources
  • Dynamic, Methodical and Slow Process
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  • General Education Committee
  • Annual/formal course outline review
  • Educational opportunities (Batten LI)
  • Interrater Reliability
  • Authentic Assignment Tool

What’s new?

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  • Revision of Assessment Cycle
  • Benchmarks
  • Rubric Revisions
  • Content Experts
  • Discipline-specific workgroups
  • Remote Assessor Training

Where are we going?

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Where should we be going?

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Questions

Kellie Sorey

ksorey@tcc.edu (757) 822-1065

Jennifer Ferguson

jferguson@tcc.edu (757) 822-1923

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