[Factc] Is Meaningful Assessment Merely a Mythology?
Jennifer Whetham
jwhetham at sbctc.edu
Wed Feb 13 10:03:16 PST 2019
Assessment Matters
Creating Assessment Processes that Satisfy Accreditors and Delight Faculty
Assessment, Teaching, and Learning Retreat
Winter 2019
March 7th and 8th, 2019
Rainbow Lodge, North Bend
Draft Agenda: http://bit.ly/2RIN01c
Registration Deadline: February 22, 2019
Thursday, March 7th, 2019
10:15 AM to 10: 45 AM Check In
Sign In and pick up your badge and packet at the front desk. On the back of your badge will be your assigned room.
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM Category Queens Take on Assessment
Learn about a groundbreaking discipline called "Category Design" as we collectively examine the purpose, tasks, and criteria of assessment through an entirely different lens from another sector.
1:15 PM to 3:00 PM Making Outcomes Assessment Transparent
Before the Session: Participants will prepare a 1 to 2 page description of your assessment process using the
transparent assignment template<http://bit.ly/2JHAaNH> (Purpose, Task, Criteria for Success). Session Objective: Participate in a facilitated design charette to give and receive meaningful feedback on your "TILT-ed" outcomes assessment process.
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM But What do You WANT? Insider Information to Prepare for Your Accreditation Visit
"Insider" Analea Brauburger, ALO at Tacoma and Trained Accreditator for the NW Commission, will review the most recent assessment science and the most up-to-date information about the levels of student learning outcomes assessment as defined by the NW Commission, as well as outline a basic strategy to prepare and coach your visitors on your accreditation visit(s).
7:00 PM to 8:30PM Seminar Discussion
"Seasons of Academic Life: Honoring Our Collective Autobiography<http://bit.ly/2p2Jqm0>." This beautifully written piece by Lee Knefelkamp is old, but it is not dated. Bill Moore will facilitate a seminar discussion designed to support us collectively drawing out and discovering profound truths about the unfolding of faculty identity over a long career in ways that will inform both assessment of learning outcomes and professional development.
Friday, March 8th, 2019
8:30 AM to 10:15 AM Reflect and Process Feedback from the Charette
Structured time and a process to share, reflect, and process the feedback from the charette with your campus team (professional development, assessment, IR, admin, etc.)
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM Reconnecting to Mission and Vision
Jen and Bryce will share back a draft mission, vision, values, objectives for this group based on feedback from Fall Retreat poster/sticker activity.
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From: Jennifer Whetham
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 4:58 PM
To:
Cc: Jackie Eppler-Clark (jeclark at sbctc.edu<mailto:jeclark at sbctc.edu>) <jeclark at sbctc.edu<mailto:jeclark at sbctc.edu>>; Bill Moore (bmoore at sbctc.edu<mailto:bmoore at sbctc.edu>) <bmoore at sbctc.edu<mailto:bmoore at sbctc.edu>>
Subject: CPD: Not Just Course Degree Program . . . It's College Professional Development!
My very dear teaching and learning friends.
Two Questions:
1. Have you had a chance to register for the Winter ATL Retreat March 7&8, 2019, at Rainbow Lodge?
2. What about the Spring ATL Retreat June 26-28, 2019, at Spokane Community College?
Analea Brauburger is working with me to create a robust sequence of provocative discussion questions, activities, and slide decks. Analea is an "Assessment Insider" in two key ways:
1. As the dean of organizational learning, Analea oversees curriculum and development and currently serves as ALO at Tacoma and . . .
2. Analea is a trained accreditor for the NW Commission.
In addition to recently completing the training and joining the "secret society" of the NW Commission, Analea also attended the annual NW Commission Meeting in November 2018, where she got the inside scoop on how NW will be transforming as a result of their own accreditation process (the accreditors are going through their own accreditation process . . . how very metacognitive!)
She will be also attend the (First-Ever!) NW Commission and National Institute of Learning Outcomes (NILOA) Workshop in January 2019.
Our purpose is to offer professional learning experiences during the Winter ATL Retreat that will support your assessment efforts both immediately AND create a solid foundation for extended work during our first-ever-in-Jen's-time-at-SBCTC ATL Summer Retreat.
Folks charged with professional development . . . .you should attend too!
As Charlie Blaich and Kathy Wise of the Wabash Center for Inquiry said at the Teaching and Learning National Institute (TLNI) a few years ago . . . Assessment is the best site for professional development that centers teaching and learning.
To paraphrase a great quote from the brilliant Emily Lardner, VPI at GHC-we'll be thinking in a variety of ways about CPD as "Course, Program, Degree," and also as "College Professional Development."
Therefore, we'll be taking a close (and brand new!) look at Course, Program, Degree from a variety of vantage points-
* Applying Assessment Science Old and New
* in the context of your Guided Pathways Redesign (ensuring student learning in your metamajors)
* The Best Way to Prepare for Your Accreditation Visit;
I hope you all will join us to talk about these very important aspects of an organizational approach to student learning!
Peace,
Jen
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From: Jennifer Whetham
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 8:41 AM
Subject: Assessment Matters: Register Now for the 2019 ATL Retreats in March and June!
2019 Assessment, Teaching, and Learning Retreats!
A System Level Community of Practice for Visionaries Leading Assessment and/or Professional Development Efforts
Winter 2019 Retreat
Assessment Matters I: Creating Assessment Processes that Satisfy Accreditors and Delight Faculty
March 7th and 8th, 2019 at Rainbow Lodge in North Bend
Draft Agenda: http://bit.ly/2RIN01c
Registration Deadline: February 22, 2019
Summer 2019 Retreat
Assessment Matters II: A Deeper Dive
June 26, 27, 28, 2019 at Spokane Community College, Spokane WA
Agenda at a Glance: http://bit.ly/2qxqVqC
Registration Deadline: May 31, 2019
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Jennifer Whetham (pronouns: she/her/hers)
Assessment, Teaching, and Learning
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
jwhetham at sbctc.edu<mailto:jwhetham at sbctc.edu> * o: 360-704-4354 * c: 206-310-1291
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