Spring 2001 * Volume 3 * Number 2

HOPE COLLEGE'S UPDATED ASSESSMENT PLAN

The Assessment Committee spent a significant amount of time during the 2000-2001 academic year working on an updated plan for the assessment of student academic achievement at Hope College. The plan was constructed with input from a variety of sources, including committee members, department chairs, various members of the Dean's Council, and the advice provided to us by Jack Rossmann. Some of you will remember Jack as the consultant from Manchester College that we brought to campus last year to evaluate our assessment program.

read more of this article...

A SECOND YEAR OF WRITING ASSESSMENT AT HOPE COLLEGE

by Dr. Richard Ray

Last Fall I reported to you that the Assessment Committee had completed a first round of writing assessment (see here). The purpose of this report is to let you know what we found when we conducted the second round of this project. The second round of the writing assessment project was conducted in exactly the same manner as the first, with one exception that I'll describe below. Students in six senior seminar sections were asked to write a 2-3 page "Life View Paper Proposal." They were provided with written instructions for what to include in the proposal. Students submitted two copies: an anonymous copy that was given to the Assessment Committee for analysis and a copy with the student's name on it that was turned in to the professor to be used in any way he or she deemed appropriate. One hundred and six usable papers were submitted for analysis. Students also provided the following information on a form that was readable by the Frost Center's survey scanner:

read more of this article...