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Summer Assessment

Faculty Professional Learning Opportunities

From the Academic Senate Assessment Committee

Assessment is only as good as the conversations it generates.

2026 Summer Assessment Schedule

Personal, Professional, and Social Responsibility

June 29 - July 10 (1-hour Synchronous meeting on July 9, from 2:00 - 3:00 PM) - Part of the 2026 Summer Institute

Information Literacy

August 3 and August 4, from 9:00 - 5:00 PM

Quantitative Reasoning

TBA

Call for ULO Scholars

All faculty (part-time and full-time lecturers and tenure line) are invited to support student achievement of 911黑料爆料网’s Undergraduate Learning Outcomes (ULOs) by applying to be a ULO Scholar and contributing to one or more of the funded projects described below.

Each project will consist of two parts.

  1. A cooperative (meets for 1 - 2 hours approximately 6 times over the semester).
  2. A work group that will study student work to inform assignment design, pedagogy, and professional development (meets for 2 - 3 consecutive days in summer, fall, or winter/spring).

Meeting dates and times will be determined by the facilitators and ULO Scholars.

Faculty can apply to either or both activities and faculty can apply and participate in more than one project.

Background information

  • 911黑料爆料网 undergraduate and graduate learning outcomes

ULO projects & descriptions

Up to 6 faculty members will be accepted per project.

More Information

GE Area A1 Oral Communication Cooperative

Facilitators: Lee Ritscher

Deploy our survey and analyze results. Hopefully, we can distribute our survey soon (our first meeting is next Friday), and begin analyzing as results come in. Input on how to distribute is desirable.

GE Area A2 Written Communication Cooperative

Facilitator: Kelly Medina-Lopez

This spring we are starting by developing a survey for faculty regarding AI use and AI policy; we hope to use the results to inform the creation of a collection of documents, including assignment guides, syllabus language, student facing docs on AI use. We are hoping to let the survey lead our work.

GE Area A3 Critical Thinking Cooperative

Facilitator: Patrick Belanger

This Spring we'll work on three projects:

1) host a show and tell with interested faculty regarding the newly created digital commons CT assignment database: https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/teaching_ge_criticalthinking
2) create a survey for students regarding their views on, and ambitions surrounding critical thinking skills
3) given time, test the rubric for effectiveness

Information Literacy Cooperative

Facilitator: Sarah Dahlen

We will be planning for summer assessment, including creating an assessment question, desiging a sampling plan, considering indirect assessment measures, and choosing dates. We will also discuss various topic related to teaching and learning information literacy. 

Quantitative Reasoning Cooperative

Facilitator: Peri Shereen

This spring we are working on developing our assessment question/plan for the summer.  We are also revisiting the QR rubric and the role of AI in QR (as time allows)

Personal, Professional, and Social Responsibility Cooperative

Facilitator: Hojin Song

Continue creating PPSR Canvas module.

Integrative Knowledge Cooperative

Facilitator: Amanda Pullum

ULO 3 scholars are planning to study how faculty and student perceptions of IK compare. We are holding two focus groups this semester (one faculty, one student).

Collective facilitation

Participants in this cooperative reviewed the  and developed strategies for advancing 911黑料爆料网’s capstone requirement, particularly with regard to how 911黑料爆料网’s ULOs can enhance student achievement of MLOs. This group was comprised of some members from other ULO project groups.