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.
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 |
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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) |
Membership
- 2022-2023 Membership (PDF)
- 2021-2022 Membership (PDF)
- 2020-2021 Membership (PDF)
- 2019-2020 Membership (PDF)
- 2018-2019 Membership (PDF)
- 2017-2018 Membership (PDF)
- 2016-2017 Membership (PDF)
- 2015-2016 Membership (PDF)
- 2014-2015 Membership (PDF)
- 2013-2014 Membership (PDF)
- 2012-2013 Membership (PDF)
- 2011-2012 Membership (PDF)
- 2009-2010 Membership (PDF)