Fifteen full-time and part-time faculty from the areas of English, Math, Trades, Business, Health Sciences, Intensive ESL, Science, and LAW are joining together for three evenings this quarter in order to draft four different rubrics, one for each of our Campus-wide Outcomes. The teams of 3-4 faculty started this project two weeks ago with a kick-off session at which they learned about rubrics and the four Campus-wide Outcomes. Then they focused on working within their teams to build rubrics for their chosen Campus-wide Outcome. When they are finished, each group will have produced a tool that will identify what each competency of each Campus-wide Outcome looks like at different levels of "beginning," "emerging," "developing," and "mastering." These rubrics will then be further tested and revised in other venues like the Summer Assessment Institute.

The hope is that this project will initiate a discussion about what student achievement of the Campus-wide Outcomes may look like at different levels and across the disciplines. While we currently have competencies that outline different ability areas for each Campus-wide Outcome, we haven't yet looked at what these competencies might mean for a beginning student vs. a more advanced student or for students in different disciplines. In addition, project participants hope that these drafts are helpful starting places for other faculty who want to develop a more specialized, course-specific rubric for one of the Campus-wide Outcomes. Since developing a rubric for your own course can be a lot of work, the tools that these teams build may give other faculty language they can tailor and adapt for their own courses.

Expect to see the completed drafts of these rubrics in late February, and be on the look out for invites to further discussion and revision of these tools.

For questions about this project, please contact Julie Moore, LOC Chair.