COUNCIL ON ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT (CAA)
MINUTES, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
UNH 105 1:30-2:30
Members present: Richard Matyi, (Chair), Henryk Baran, Brian Gabriel, Kristen Hessler, Bruce
Szelest, Kevin Williams, Bin Yu
Members absent: Brea Barthel, Sue Faerman, Theresa Gasper, Aaron Major , Dana Peterson,
Christine Wagner
1.
Introduction of members.
The Chair began by welcoming all members to the Council.
2.
Minutes of the May 12, 2010 meeting were reviewed and approved.
3.
Update from the CAA Chair
The Chair referred to bylaws that require GEAC and PRC to be chaired by teaching
faculty. Henryk Baran agreed to chair PRC; because no other current members of the
CAA who are teaching faculty were willing to chair GEAC, Richard Matyi agreed to
serve as chair on an interim basis.
5.
Discussion of upcoming program reviews
The Director of Assessment (DA) listed programs with upcoming program reviews in
2010-2011: Public Administration (site visit October, 2010); Economics, Art, Women’s
Studies, and LACS (Spring, 2010). Anthropology, Journalism and Liberal Studies
received extensions until 2011-2012. The DA will bring a schedule of 2009-2010
program reviews for the PRC to the October meeting. The question arose of whether
documents should be reviewed electronically or on paper; it was agreed that documents
would be posted to the Wiki, and that the confidentiality agreement developed last year
would continue to apply. The DA will add all PRC members to the Wiki page
permissions, and send them the link to the Wiki page.
6.
Review of updated Gen Ed assessment forms
The DA presented the new forms for the Mathematics and Oral Discourse learning
objectives. These forms incorporate the structure of last year’s pilot forms (including
separate line items for a general variety of assessment tools) as well as combining Form 1
and Form 2 into a single form. CAA members suggested a few minor changes to the
forms. Henryk Baran suggested that obtaining participation for the Oral Discourse
sections will be difficult and suggested assessing Oral Discourse in the Spring; the
Council agreed.
7.
Update on the 2010-2011 CAA handbook
The need to update the CAA handbook was raised; the DA will have a revised draft
prepared in time for the October CAA meeting. It was agreed that the handbook should
be online this year rather than printed.
8.
Scheduling of CAA meetings for 2010-2011
It was agreed that scheduling of future meetings would be done via Outlook.
The meeting adjourned at 2:30 pm.
Minutes respectfully submitted by Joel Bloom
