The Assessment Teams

In Fall 2008, the Assessment Coordinator perceived the need to restructure the Academic Assessment Committee and collaborated with the Executive Vice President to devise a plan to establish teams that would concentrate on the many facets of assessment. The teams established were the General Education, Program, and Institutional Assessment Teams with faculty and staff members from the College's academic disciplines and college departments.

The General Education and Program Assessment Teams are faculty-driven teams. The General Education Team consists of faculty members representing the disciplines that provide general education course courses such as Math/Science, Social Science, Communication/Arts, Pre-College Level, and On-Line Learning. The Program Assessment Team consists of faculty from the disciplines that provide degree specific courses such as Business, Nursing, Allied Health, and Technical Programs. The Institutional Assessment Team is represented by staff from a variety of departments on campus such as Adult Basic Education, Library, Student Services, and the Business Office. The teams work to evaluate current assessment processes and to make recommendations for improvement.

It is the mission of the assessment teams to see that meaningful academic and institutional assessment is an ongoing process at National Park Community College. The teams leave to each academic division and department the full freedom to devise, implement and test the discipline-specific outcomes embedded in courses, programs, and services - thus protecting the academic freedom of every faculty and the departmental expertise of each staff member.

In Summer 2011, the Assessment Teams were redesigned. Currently the Assessment Team is only one group of administrators and faculty comprised of the Executive Vice President and faculty members who attended the Higher Learning Commission July 2011 workshop, Making a Difference in Student Learning: Assessment as a Core Strategy. The team will continue to grow as other faculty attend the next assessment workshop in early 2012. The Assessment Team has been charged with creating an Assessment & Student Learning Committee of faculty who are interested in assessment. The Assessment Tream began taking steps in Fall 2011 towards creating interest among faculty with a series of Assessment and Student Learning Roundtables.

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