AMCOA Planning Group recommendations

“Partnerships” should be an overarching theme for all four conferences. o There are a number of partnerships that need to occur as part of assessment: academic -co-

curricular, faculty-IR and Assessment, campus-community., etc.o This theme is recommended as being of importance to achieving our individual and collective

assessment and improvement goals.

If possible, the conference should be organized with concurrent sessions so that everyone can attend all the sessions.

The conference should begin with a Keynote address (Peggy?) to frame the theme of “partnership.”

Discussion session: “LEAP and Beyond” o Include an initial discussion about LEAP and the Lumina Degree Profile at this conference, with

follow up in subsequent conferenceso The BHE has recommended that Massachusetts become a LEAP state, but there is still uncertainty

about what that means for campuses and the system

Presentation Session: Collaborative models for faculty-IR-assessmento These roles require very distinctive skills sets. How can they work together most productively?

What collaborative models are working for campuses? o What are the particular difficulties on smaller campuses when two or more roles are filled by the

same person?

Discussion session with Jonathon Keller, DHE o An invitation for him to speak about the challenges of mining and reporting data, particularly in

the context of the expectations of the Vision Project

Presentation session: Identifying models for using NSSE/CSSE data o How can this data be triangulated with other data to support change? What models have campuses

used to mine, review and report on this data?

Presentation session: Reviewing the selection of commercially developed assessment instruments as well as data gathering, analyzing and reporting instruments available

o Although the Working Group has not endorsed standardized testing as part of the Vision Project, campuses that want to use commercially developed tools have a multitude of choices.

o Which ones have been used? Which ones have been supported by faculty? How well have they worked?

Additional topics were generated, but were thought more suited to the conferences that will involve faculty more directly. They are:

Developing models that would link curricular and co-curricular learningo Describing Best Practice models of collaborationo Identifying ways to increase collaboration and learning about the benefits of doing so.

Articulating Achievement Levelso Determining what a shared outcome would look likeo Exploring the pros and cons of moving towards shared criteria/benchmarkso Developing a process for moving that forward that with another institution

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o The requirements for reporting are not yet clear, but sharing information about what and how information could be collected to serve this and other assessment purposes at the same time would be helpful.

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