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- Title
Community College Strategies.
- Authors
Chaddock, Diane K.
- Abstract
At Southwestern Michigan College, an academic outcomes assessment strategy has produced faculty-led initiatives to revise and improve instruction in English composition. Southwestern Michigan College is a rural, comprehensive community college in the southwestern corner of Michigan, serving about 1,800 full-time equivalent students. Since its inception in 1964, the college has regularly evaluated its programs and student learning, but in the early 1990s the need for a formal, clearly defined plan for measuring academic outcomes was recognized. Results from the English Proficiency Examination process are evaluated each year by the English Committee, which is composed of faculty from the Communications Department. Evaluation of these results has shown that while at least 90 percent of the students taking the English Proficiency Examination are able to pass. In Spring 1999, an outside facilitator was brought to the college to facilitate a two-day workshop involving English composition faculty from the Communications Department and the Developmental Studies Department. One of the primary goals of this workshop was to identify, level, and validate the skills being taught in each English composition course, including those in the developmental sequence. This was considered essential if we were to provide a seamless transition from one course to the next and to prepare students properly for the workplace or for their transfer program.
- Subjects
MICHIGAN; UNITED States; UNIVERSITY faculty; STUDENTS; ENGLISH composition test
- Publication
Assessment Update, 2000, Vol 12, Issue 3, p8
- ISSN
1041-6099
- Publication type
Article