Activities of the Assessment Advisory Committee 1994-95

September 6 1994 - Full committee met and discussed a pilot study.
September 14 1994 - Action plan for committee outlined.
September 27 1994 - Harry Matthews requests search committee to review applications for Coordinator of Assessment.
September 27 1994 - Full committee met and divided into sub-committees.
October 4 1994 - Written Communication Sub-Committee met and discussed goals, feedback loop and plan.
October 11 1994 - General Education Sub-committee met and discussed the need for faculty involvement in assessment and dissemination of assessment results.
October 20 1994 - Written Communication Sub-committee met and discussed methods of assessment, including the use of portfolios and commercially-developed instruments.
October 25 1994 - Committee discussed budget and timeline and sampling issues.
November 2 1994 - Committee met and decided how to obtain an representative sample and designed an assessment plan.
November 9 1994 - Committee met and discussed course-embedded assessment and data sources, including alumni survey.
November 10 1994 - Process for assessing Written Communication developed.
November 15 1994 - Committee met; sub-committees presented reports on commercial instruments to assess general education, a schedule for assessment with regards to program review.
November 30 1994 - Sub-committee B met to set a timeline and identify which assessment methods were already in place at USC.
December 21 1994 - Interim report sent to the Provost. Requires Acrobat Reader.
January 18 1994 - The Provost accepted the recommendations of the Assessment Advisory Committee.
January 23 1995 - Questionnaire administered to committee members.
February 1 1995 - Full committee met and included members from the regional campuses; Written Communication assessment plan was approved by the Provost; questions about general education would be added to the CSEQ. Adobe Acrobat required.
February 8 1995 - Sub-committee A met to begin implementing Written Communication assessment and flow chart for pilot project was drafted.
February 9 1995 - CSEQ items relevant to general education were identified.
February 15 1995 - Sub-committee B met and broke into three sub-groups, addressing policy, informing faculty and the feedback loop.
February 22 1995 - Sub-committee A resolved the problem of using Orientation and Testing to collect a freshman writing sample, determined how to identify a sophomore sample, refined the directions of the freshman and sophomore assessments and discussed the Sophomore Writing Assessment Process.
February 23 1995 - College of Science and Math faculty invited to attend Assessment Advisory Committee meeting.
Spring 1995 - Computer Skills survey administered to freshmen in UNIV 101.Adobe Acrobat required.
March 1 1995 - Sub-committee B met to discuss publishing an assessment policy and addressed concerns about adding questions to the CSEQ.
March 15 1995 - Sub-committee B met with the Deans of Liberal Arts and Science and Math to discuss faculty involvement in assessment.
March 15 1995 - Role of committees clarifed and importance of the Provost's support noted.
March 22 1995 - Sub-committee A decided to implement freshman writing assessment in the Fall of 1995, in all UNIV 101 classes; they also discussed future plans to assess students' computer skills.
March 23 1995 - Institutional Planning and Assessment asks the Committee on Scholastic Standards and Petitions to disseminate the university-wide assessment criteria and plan.
March 24 1995 - University Provost reminds Deans to distribute report from the Assessment Committee to faculty.
March 24 1995 - Minutes from the Assessment Advisory Committee begin to be distributed to academic deans.
March 31 1995 - Membership of Assessment Advisory Committee reviewed for following academic year.
April 5 1995 - Sub-committee B announced full endorsement from the Provost; addressed the need to work on the Electronic Communiation element of the general education a goals; and a preleminary plan was presented for the feedback loop.
April 10 1995 - Academic assessment section was written for inclusion in the Undergraduate Bulletin.
April 10 1995 - Draft of the "Criteria for the Assessment of USC General Education" sent to the chair of Committee on Scholastic Standards and Petitions.
April 12 1995 - Sub-committee A met and discussed the assessment of Written Communication in UNIV101 classes.
April 19 1995 - Sub-committee B met and spoke about the ACT as an instrument to assess general education.
April 20 1995 - The committee's revisions to the academic assessment section of the Undergraduate Bulletin were sent to the Undergraduate Provost's office.
May 16 1995 - Progress report sent to the Provost.
April 19 1995 - Academic Assessment section revised for the Undergraduate Bulletin and USC's Policies and Procedures manual.