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Office of Assessment: Assessment Day 2009

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - Hammond Student Center

Program

8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Coffee (Hammond G Lobby)

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Shirley Wagner, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Voluntary System of Accountability (Ellis White Lecture Hall)

9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Standardized Measures Aligned With VSA (Ellis White Lecture Hall)

9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Cheryl Casper and Bill Wynne, MAPP (ETS) Ellis White Lecture Hall (Click here to view their presentation in MS PowerPoint format.)

9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Sandra Stewart, CAAP (ACT) (Click here to view her presentation in MS PowerPoint format, or here to learn more about CAAP.)

Note: A third test, the Collegiate Learing Assessment (CLA) is also approved for VSA use. However, it offers only one format, and that format makes such high demands on computer resources that it is not being considered for use at FSC. Learn more about CLA here, or click here to view a sample presentation in MS PowerPoint format on its score reports.

10:15 – 11:00 a.m. College Breakout Sessions (I)

Session A: College Wide Assessment Resources (Alumni B)

Terry Carroll, Retention Rates and Graduation Statistics. (Click here to go to the FSC Institutional Research site.)

Steve Wall Smith, Alumni and Graduation Surveys. (Click here to view the Alumni Survey presentation in MS PowerPoint format, and here to view the Graduation Survey presentation in MS PowerPoint format.)

Session B: Strengthening Existing Assessment (Alumni C)

Linda McKay/Carla McGrath Nursing Surveys. (Click here to view the Nursing presentation in MS PowerPoint format.)

Laura Baker TK20 in History. (Click here to view the History presentation.)

11:10 – 11:55 a.m. College Breakout Sessions (II)

Session A: College Wide Assessment Resources (Alumni B)

Steve Wall Smith, Alumni and Graduation Surveys. (See Session A above for links to presentations.)

Terry Carroll, Retention Rates and Graduation Statistics. (See Session A above for links to information.)

Session B: Getting Started (Alumni C)

Gus Aryee, Sociology. (Click here to view the Sociology presentation in MS PowerPoint format.)

Steve Taylor and Frits Lander, Computer Science. (Click here to view the Computer Science presentation in MS PowerPoint format.)

12:00 p.m. Lunch in Holmes Dining Commons

1:00 -1:30 p.m. Overview of the Mission and Strategic Planning Process (Percival Auditorium)

1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Facilitated Discussion Sessions: Developing our Mission and Core Values (Assigned Percival and Thompson classrooms)

Who Are We/What are Our Core Values?

2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Facilitated Discussion Sessions: Developing our Vision and Strategic Plan (Assigned Percival and Thompson classrooms)

Who do We Want Be/How Will We Get There?

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