Bakersfield College Assessment
Workshops and Campus Conversations
Workshops
Ruth Stiehl workshop
April 28, 29
Dr. Ruth Stiehl provided training concentrating on program level SLOs and program mapping. Copies of her books and an enlarged mapping tool for use while mapping your own program can be obtained from Bonnie Suderman.
Norena Badway Workshop
June 8th, 2005
Dr. Norena Badway presented a full-day workshop on the Assessment Cycle, emphasizing how to choose a starting point for the SLO cycle, writing SLOs, and starting to plan effective assessments. She especially stressed the importance of “closing the loop”, or using the data to make improvements in instruction, curriculum, or student services. Groups were able to work together to develop an assessment plan for one course or program. The plans may be viewed below:
ACDV B50 Reading for Academic Success
Chem 11 Inorganic, Organic, & Biochemistry
Chicano History 30B
COMM B1 Public Speaking
Counseling Program
CRIM B1 Intro to Criminal Justice
ENG 60 and ESL B2
History 17A
Introduction to Library Research
MATH A Elementary Algebra
Multimedia Workshop (Summer Institute)
PSYCH 1 AB
Spanish 1 AB
Supportive Services (DSPS)
Dr. Badway’s PowerPoint
Mary Allen Workshop
August 18th
Dr. Mary Allen presented a full day interactive workshop that started by covering the basics of the assessment plan as a review. She then provided valuable information on the steps to implementing various tools as well as their pros and cons. Tools included in this workshop were published tests, locally developed tests, embedded assignments, portfolios, surveys, interviews, focus groups, and rubrics.
For a copy of her materials and PowerPoint, or to borrow a copy of her book, contact Bonnie Suderman.
Campus Conversations
Dr. Janet Tarjan/Students
April, 2005
A group of BC and Delano students made a presentation based upon what instructors do to help or hinder student learning. This was based upon a statewide student focus group in which they participated at Lake Tahoe. The students have been asked to present this information at several conferences in the upcoming year.
Participant Application Results
Portfolios
March 8, 2006
This Campus Conversation included an overview of portfolios, their strengths and weaknesses, and steps to setting up a system. Presentations were made of currently used portfolio systems by Ann Tatum and Denise Mitchell of English (course level portfolios) and Bernadette Towns of Child Development (program level portfolio system).
Child Development Program Level Portfolio System
Capstone Projects
March 22, 2006
Capstone projects were featured in this Campus Conversation. Presentations included an overview of the process to develop capstone projects and presentations by Tom Moran (ASL), John Gerhold (Music), and Chef Coyle (Culinary Arts).
Music Capstone Project
Culinary Arts Capstone Project
Surveys
March 23, 2006
This Campus Conversation included a description of surveys as well as steps to develop effective surveys and pitfalls to avoid. Clark Parsons presented the REMARK system for survey development and results tabulation.
Examples of REMARK results
Condensed Item Analysis Report
Rubrics
March 29, 2006
Clark Parsons presented steps to develop rubrics as well as an overview of different rubric styles. Brenda Freaney and Sheena Bhogal presented the English 60 rubric and discussed their example of a norming packet.
Norming Packet (PDF FIle)