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The Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness Committee met on Dec. 15, 2020.<\/p>\n
The meeting minutes are as follows:<\/p>\n
Dr. Margaret Geehan opened the meeting at 1:00pm.<\/p>\n
1. Middle States Update<\/strong> 2. Assessment Definition Addendum \u201cIn short, assessment is an inclusive process that incorporates academic inquiry and creates accountability in all areas of educational decision-making with the objective of assuring and confirming the quality of higher education within the bounds of available resources and timelines.\u201d<\/p>\n 3. Future Core Indicator Review<\/strong> 4. Employee Satisfaction Review Survey Review The Employee Satisfaction survey was discussed for the remainder of the meeting. The group spent time discussing why many faculty members (and some staff) skip some possibly identifying questions on the survey. It seems to be that they skip questions because they are afraid someone will be able to identify who wrote what on the survey and perhaps retaliate if they wrote something negative.<\/p>\n This committee wants to encourage more people to answer the surveys fully and honestly. Dr. Geehan commented that she has heard people say that they don\u2019t do it anymore because nothing changes. Vice President Gloria Baez said it is important that more people respond so that it is not always the same group responding year after year. The group agreed. One possible way of doing this may be to word the beginning of the survey, or the message with which it is sent out to people, differently. Wording such as \u201cwe used last year’s survey to modify things to be more how employees wanted them, so please fill out this year\u2019s survey to help us to continue changing things for your benefit,\u201d might encourage more people to fill it out. Dr. Geehan noted that the annual VP\/ExD summary of assessment reports, starting in March, will have questions that ask specifically how their areas used the Employee and Student Satisfaction Surveys results for continuous improvement.<\/p>\n Lastly, the committee also spent a good deal of time discussing the wording of the question\/survey statement \u201cI am satisfied with the level of data-informed decision making at the college.\u201d It was revised to something more like \u201cI am satisfied that the college makes data-informed decisions,\u201d or \u201cuses data to make decisions.\u201d This made the wording of the statement more clear and concise, and will hopefully cause more survey-takers to answer not based on what decisions they like, but on whether they think data is taken into account when decisions are\u00a0 made. A separate question can then deal with a person\u2019s satisfaction regarding said decisions. Dr. Baez in particular advocated for changing this question.<\/p>\n The meeting adjourned at 2 p.m. The next meeting will take place at a time TBD.<\/p>\n AIE Members <\/p>\n Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:45:13 +0000 by\u00a0c.gerardi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness Committee met on Dec. 15, 2020. The meeting minutes are as follows: Dr. Margaret…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDr. Geehan let the group know that she didn\u2019t have much in the way of Middle States updates. She said she and Joe Stenard would have more on that front after an important meeting with their Middle States liaison on Dec. 16. Three of the seven Working Groups have held their final meetings for the fall 2020 semester and have been formally charged and “commissioned” by the Core Team. Others are scheduled.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Brian Vlieg\u2019s addendum to the definition of \u201cAssessment\u201d in the 2014 Institutional Effectiveness Plan was reviewed by the group. A screenshot of this can be provided if requested. Having reviewed the original definition in the plan, it was decided that the definition was excellent and relevant, and Brian created an addendum as follows:<\/p>\n
\nThe group agreed to postpone this review in order to review the survey to ensure it was ready to be distributed in early spring 2021.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Edits were made to various questions on the survey and the ways they were worded. (A screenshot is available of this as well.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Gloria Baez
\nClem Campana
\nColleen Ferris
\nPat Gaston
\nMargaret Geehan
\nCaitlyn Gerardi
\nAntoinette Howard
\nMatt Howe
\nAlan Joseph
\nDennis Kennedy
\nPat Klimkewicz
\nJim Macklin
\nMargaret Mann
\nKaren Paquette
\nKathy Petley
\nChrissy Smith
\nJoseph Stenard
\nAinsley Thomas
\nBrian Vlieg
\nDennis Wax
\nRonalyn Wilson<\/p>\n