1. Forging Assessment Communities Using Rubrics Effectively Susan Wood, Assessment Coordinator Doña Ana Community College

2. Assessment = Scholarship “Your state university has been offering instruction in writing for decades, but is that university any better now than before at teaching people to write? Over the years, it has doubtless enlisted wonderful individual talents in that task, but does it now know more—corporately—about how to accomplish it? If it practiced a scholarship of teaching, it would (Marchese, 2000).”

3. Bridging Theory and Practice Theory of Assessment Technology of Assessment (RUBRICS) Assessment-friendly Communities

4. Steps to building Assessment-friendly Communities Start with a learning challenge Call for volunteers to address the challenge Express individual educational values and expectations connected to the challenge Identify/establish commonly held criteria to assess

5. Assessment Community Rubric masteredemergingstruggling Call for volunteers Diverse individuals agree upon challenge and step forward A few individuals acknowledge challenge and step forward No group emerges to deal with challenges in an organized way Express values Diverse individuals feel comfortable expressing educational values and are willing to listen to others Individuals want to but are hesitant to express educational values and find it difficult to listen to others Individuals are unable to express educational values and are unwilling to listen to others Identify common criteria The group agrees on a core set of commonly held criteria The group struggles to agree on a core set of commonly held criteria The group is unable to agree upon a core set of criteria

6. Three Examples: Using Rubrics -- Effectively? Example one: Creation of English Program Rubric Example two: First attempt to create and use a WAC Rubric Example three: Second attempt to create and use a WAC Rubric

7. WAC Taskforce Accomplishments A tool to help teachers design writing assignments A tool to help teachers assess their writing assignments A writing-across-the curriculum rubric to evaluate student-writing campus-wide

8. General Education Assessment Committee CXC SubcommitteeMXC Subcommittee CTXC SubcommitteeEXC Subcommittee GEAC