LLMC Assessment Page

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This page and its links are designed to help LLMC Faculty collect and share information about ongoing assessment efforts in the department.


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General Education Assessment

Here is a list of current general education assessments.  You can refer to these to get a sense of what other people are doing.
ENGL 150:  Introduction to Literature
ENGL 222: Mythology
ENGL 231: Non-Western World Literature I
ENGL 232: Non-Western World Literature II
ENGL 254: Survey of English Literature I
English 255: Survey of English Literature II
English 261: Survey of American Literature I
English 262: Survey of American Literature II
PHIL 105: Critical Thinking and PHIL 110: Introduction to Philosophy

Links to English 131 and 132 are not available due to formatting, but see Richard Berkey to discuss his interesting assessment projects for those courses.

Here is an ongoing collection of links to handouts and sites that may be helpful to understanding and considering our assessment:
    1.  The two general education goals we are assessing for literature courses.
    2.  The two general education goals we are assessing for writing courses.
    3.  A handout on critical thinking.
    4.  What the accreditation team has asked Mesa State to do in terms of assessment.
    5.  A somewhat  recent AP article on the literacy of college students that forbodes more assessment rather than less in the future.
    6.  A link to a listing of Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education .  These principles show up quite a lot in the assessment world and I think most of us would agree that they make a good starting point for talking about what makes good educational practice.  In future days we may be more able to use these as a means of examining what we do in the classroom.
    7.  The most recent rubrics used by the department to assess ENGL 111 and ENGL 112 essays.

Eventually, this page will also contain our collected data, as well as relevant action we choose to take based on the data.

English Program Assessment
1.  The assessment report from last year.
2.  The assessment plan for this year.

Spanish Program Assessment

1. The assessment plan for this year.

Mass Communication Program Assessment

1. The assessment plan for this year.

Faculty Evaluation Documents

Data from the Spring 2006 General Education Literature assessments and from the 2006 Composition Assessments.
These are formatted as a saved Excel worksheet.  If you'd like a prettier, and probably more useful, copy I would be happy to e-mail you the Excel file.


If you have ideas about assessment or would like to contribute information (handouts, links, etc.) that would be useful to the department as we consider our assessment program, please contact Kurt Haas at khaas@mesastate.edu or 248-1104.