Learning Assessment Committee

Purpose

The Learning Assessment Committee is charged with developing and recommending procedures and best practices that provide the college with measurable data to assess student learning. The Learning Assessment Committee will assist academic disciplines to develop plans for assessment strategies, rubrics, and methods for using data to make changes in the delivery of course material to promote student success through the following actions:

  • Make formal recommendations on the best practices for data collection, assessing results, and making changes to promote student success in General Education.
  • Make formal recommendations on the best practices for data collection, assessing results, and making changes to promote student success in academic disciplines.
  • Work with the Division of Teaching Innovation, Professional Faculty Development Committee, and Online Learning to develop training for all faculty in implementing assessment strategies, developing and using rubrics, and making course modifications.
  • Serve as individual faculty committee members as their discipline’s assessment liaison and has responsibility to keep the department involved in the assessment process.
Jennifer Patterson, Ph.D

Jennifer Patterson
Professor of Business, Chair of the Learning Assessment Committee

Meeting Minutes

Mission Statement

Florida SouthWestern State College’s Learning Assessment Committee is dedicated to sustaining excellent academic programs and learning environments. We are also committed to mission-based, comprehensive, and data-driven assessment for the purpose of continuous institutional improvement and effectiveness through general education, program, and course level assessment. The work of the committee ensures that this statement of commitment to assessing institutional effectiveness is exemplified through the support, encouragement, and innovation of learning assessments in our classrooms.

The Learning Assessment Committee is committed to:

  • Making formal recommendations on the best practices for developing and refining assessments. data collection, assessing results, and making changes to promote student success in academic disciplines.
  • Working with the Division of Teaching Innovation, Professional Development Committee, and Online Learning to develop training for all faculty in implementing assessment strategies, developing and using rubrics, and making course modifications.

Members

Name Position Primary Campus
Jennifer Patterson Professor, Business and LAC Chair Thomas Edison (Lee)
Caroline Seefchak Professor, Education Thomas Edison (Lee)
Eric Seelau Professor, Psychology Thomas Edison (Lee)
Jane Charles FProfessor, Library Thomas Edison (Lee)
Krissy Cabral FProfessor, Criminal Justice Thomas Edison (Lee)
Mary Conwell Professor, Paralegal Studies Thomas Edison (Lee)
Renee Hester Professor, Academic Success Thomas Edison (Lee)
Richard Worch Professor, Public Safety Administration Thomas Edison (Lee)
Dolores Batiato Professor, Business Thomas Edison (Lee)
Terry Zamor Professor, Mathematics Thomas Edison (Lee)
Thomas Donaldson Professor, History Charlotte
Meghan Carlson Professor, Mathematics Collier
Amy Trogan Professor, English Thomas Edison (Lee)
Tami Such Dean, School of Health Profession Thomas Edison (Lee)
Marius Coman Professor, Physics Collier
Jennifer Summary Professor, Communications Studies Thomas Edison (Lee)
Colleen Moore Professor, Nursing Charlotte
Joseph van Gaalen AASPIRE Thomas Edison (Lee)
Jessica Godwin AASPIRE Thomas Edison (Lee)
Veronica Ruiz AASPIRE Thomas Edison (Lee)