Members present:
Sue Falco, Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska, Barb Hiles, Connie Jo, Kim Litwack, Jeff Merrick, Robin Mello, Janice Miller, Amy Otis-Wilborn, Deb Padgett, Ron Perez, Kim Pietsch, Charles Schuster, Susan Stalewski, Thomas Walker, Linda Anderson-Courtney, Anthony Ciccone, Connie Schroeder, Dev Venugopalan

Guests:
Kathleen Koch

Dev Venugopalan discussed briefly the recent American Association of Colleges and Universities General Education Assessment Workshop that was recently attended by six UWM faculty members. He distributed the goals and strategy developed by the group at the conference (see web site attachment – General Education Assessment Workshop Report).

He also announced that WEAVE is now live online and, using a test sample developed by WEAVE, went through the major components of WEAVEonline activities: Mission Statements, Outcomes/Objectives, Measures, Findings, Action Plan, Analysis, and Annual Reporting. UWM Assessment Council members were given instructions on how to log-in to WEAVE and an email address for help (see web site attachment – UWM WEAVEonline). Training on the use of WEAVE will be available to schools and colleges.

Tony Ciccone and Connie Schroeder presented an abbreviated series of assessment workshops to help faculty and staff begin the development of program goals, student learning goals, measurement mechanisms, curricular maps, and methods of closing the loop. A number of attachments were distributed (see web site attachments).

UWM Assessment Council Workshop – May 30, 2007 (powerpoint presentation)
Assessment typologies – direct and indirect
Biosciences Assessment
Sample rubric – Communications 101
and
Rubric templates and scoring guides – available at
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/july/rubrics/Rubric_Template.html

There was a discussion of the timing of these activities. The Council was reminded that the NCA follow-up report is due in April 2008. Schools and colleges are encouraged to enter data into WEAVE as soon as possible.

The appointment of individual school/college/department assessment coordinators has been discussed with the Academic Dean’s Council and a letter asking Deans to appoint coordinators is forthcoming.