ILLC Meeting Notes 5-24-17

Meeting Details

• Date:  5/24/17
• Time:  11:10 am to 12:00 noon
• Place:  35-319B

Business

1. Announcements and approval of notes 5/10/24  from last meeting
2. Upper Division Assessment Discussion
   • Review of potential courses and college partners  400-level courses (PDF)
   • ENGR - Possible senior project/and what leads up to final project (One-year project)  No concrete artifact, but deliverables throughout the year, many diverse projects, would need to look at individual projects, Fall quarter is when the students do the literature search.
   • We only want senior level students, at or near graduation, so we would strike non-seniors from list.
   • Courses on the list have been suggested by department chairs and associate deans.
   • Katherine will reach out to Doris Derilian in CAFES/FSN 415
3. Lower Division GE Assessment (15 min)
   • ENGL 145, 149 – Winter, Spring target courses
   • Is there an issue on 2013-14 samples, same type of assignment
   • Majority of ENGL 145  have similar assignments,  but the last half of class in more researched-based, Carol Curiel, who teaches ENGL 145 has an annotative bibliography as part of the process, or there could possibly a separate assignment for a research log.
   • Would we want to review artifacts collected from 2013-14 in ENGL 145 and 149?  No.  The group felt that Information access points change quickly, and more recent papers would be better.  Things have changed quite a bit since 2013, and the product would show the difference.  
   • Assignments have not changed that much and can help with developing the rubric.
   • ENGL 149 has changed quite a bit. There was no reflective component in ENGL 149 for Critical Thinking.  Chelsea Milborne, instructor is now working on developing content.  One assignment  is a recommendation paper.
   • ENGL 134 has an introduction to information literacy in their final paper but ENGL 149 would be a better assessment of freshmen in this area.
   • A3 courses has information literacy in its outcomes and it a perfect target
   • Kaila is developing aresearch log which could be utilized.
   • Carol Curiel is on the composition committee, led by Brenda Helmbrecht.
   • Carol will help collaborate with colleagues that teach ENGL 149 to provide student sample work for ENGL 145.  Other faculty members could include Amy Wiley, Courtney Brogno, and Patricia Kusnetsoff.  Martin Elstin could be a possible faculty candidate for providing samples fromENGL 149.
4. Rubric Development 
   • We are planning a one-day workshop in early July to work on the rubric, utilizing the AAC&U rubric and the Champlain rubric for reference. 
   • We would need possible samples and assignments from ENGL 149  and ENGL  145, as well as uppper-division courses.  Is it possible to contact instructors this quarter, or include faculty that teach upper-division courses?  (We may be able to draft the rubric and get their feedback via e-mail.)
5. Looking Ahead: 
   • Send doodle poll for possible dates for one-day workshop:
     (Carol Curiel, Katherine O'Clair, Bruno Giberti, Jack Phelan, Kaila Bussert)
     Do we need any more faculty, or is this a good core group?
   • Complete rubric
   • Possible meeting with Composition Group, make possible contact with Brenda Helmbrecht to define assessment mission on ENGL 145/149.
   • Set up steps for Assessment Collection:
     Fall: Collect samples from ENGL 145 and 149:  Paper or digital
     Need letters to faculty and students
   • Fall:  CENG - will have to target which senior project classes we will work with in fall, and make contact with instructors (Fall?)