Timeline for the Assessment of the Engaged Citizenship Curriculum
- February 12, 2014 – Faculty will consider the revisions to the student learning objectives for The Arts designation.
- January 2014 – ECC Evaluation Panels are developed to read and score student artifacts collected in the fall using rubrics for Critical Thinking (Reasoning), Written Communication (Expression), Global Perspective (Perspectives) and Civic Engagement (Engagement).
- January 2014 – The relationship of the revised Course Learning Objectives of the Engaged Citizenship Curriculum to the Institution—and Program—Level Learning Objectives, given the adopted changes
- January 15, 2014 – Faculty unanimously approves the revision of the student learning objectives for all designations in the Engaged Citizenship Curriculum except for The Arts, which were amended and are on the agenda for the February Faculty meeting.
- Fall 2013 – Students upload documents to collection portals for Critical Thinking (Reasoning), Written Communication (Expression), Global Perspective (Perspectives) and Civic Engagement (Engagement). Over 1000 papers are uploaded by more than 800 students. Papers will be evaluated in Spring 2014 against Institutional-Level Learning Objectives.
- November and December 2013 – Open meetings to discuss the proposed revisions to the Student Learning Outcomes of the ECC. Suggestions are made for changes and are accepted by the General Education Director. The Arts Student Learning Outcomes are pulled from the proposal for further discussion.
- October 2013 – Revised Student Learning Outcomes of the Engaged Citizenship Curriculum are sent to the Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee.
- August 17, 2013 – Academy team report to the faculty on Institutional—and Program—Level Learning Objectives and the plan to revise the Course-Level learning objectives for the Engaged Citizenship Curriculum.
- Summer 2013 – Director of Academic Assessment and the General Education Director meet to finalize draft of the revisions of the Student Learning Outcomes of the Engaged Citizenship Curriculum. Draft is reviewed by chair of the Assessment and Program Review Committee and the past two General Education Directors.
- May 20, 2013 – Susan Hatfield runs a workshop on assessment for the faculty. The Simpson Academy team proposes Institution-level Learning Objectives as a way to get a handle on the assessment of the Engaged Citizenship Curriculum.
- Spring 2013 – Monthly meetings of “Coffee, Tea and the ECC”—a group of faculty and administrators who use recommendations made by the faculty at large to draft a revision of the Student Learning Objectives of the Engaged Citizenship Curriculum and build an assessment plan for the general education program. Collected and published information on how to write learning objectives.
- March 2013 – Simpson Academy team submits a project update and receives responses from the HLC Academy mentors.
- November 2012 – Accepted to the HLC Academy. Sent a team to St. Charles, Illinois for and Academy Roundtable: Murphy Waggoner, Patricia Calkins, CoryAnne Harrigan, Tracy Dinesen, John Benoit. Submitted a plan for SLIC: Student Learning Improvement Plan to the HLC Academy for the Assessment of Student Learning.
- November 14, 2012 – Submitted application to the HLC Academy for the Assessment of Student Learning. The proposal was to use as our Quality Initiative in the Open Pathway our experience with the HLC Academy in the development of a assessment plan for the Engaged Citizenship Curriculum.