PROGRAM REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Minutes of: April 24th 2003

http://www.southernct.edu/~podnar/PRAC
 

Present: C. Coron, C. Durwin, H. Podnar, W. Shyam.

Started: 10:00am.

The members reflected on the visit to the Psychology Department Implementation meeting. The visit certainly helped to increase understanding of the current Assessment process. The meeting presented some areas of future action on the departmental and administration side. The members expressed their interest in following the progress of the implementation in the future.

A decision was made to take a more active approach into searching and defining an assessment model that might serve as an alternative to the current process. The majority of the search activities took place on the Internet, and several institutions with excellent assessment web-site presentations attracted PRAC members' attention.

PRAC members are now looking at these institutions: • Southern Illinois University @ Edwardsville   www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/
• University of Washington   www.washington.edu/oea/oeahome.htm
• University of Illinois @ Urbana - Champaign   www.oir.uiuc.edu/assessment/
• University of Central Arkansas   www.uca.edu/divisions/academic/assess/
• North Carolina State   www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/
• Southern Connecticut State - Graduate School model   www.southernct.edu/grad/

The meeting continued, with the discussion about the PRAC membership regarding the UCF 3-year membership cycle. All of the members expressed interest in continuing with the activities, regardless of their membership status. The agreement was reached that the assessment activities should continue, with the PRAC's increasing presence.

Adjourned at 10:50am
 

Recorder: H.Podnar