Committee meeting Feb 3rd 2006

Attending: John Santore, Zon-I Chang, Toby Lorenzen , Lee Mondshein

Committee business and decisions:

This semester we will do a "dry run" of collecting data on the required classes for the future site visit. Each computer science faculty member who is teaching a required Computer science class will compile documentation (according to ABET format) to show that we do teach and asses the core body of knowledge units that are required. (And that we do so in the courses that we have agreed to teach them in). It is expected that such a major undertaking will have some snags and problems, which is why this semester is a dry run. The materials will be examined on a monthly-ish basis by John and Dick Quindly at least. The folders will be placed in a public place so that everyone can see the techniques used by their colleges and add anything that seems interesting to their own collection and presentation styles.

We will be using copies of the original papers in compiling the documentation. It was decided that we should return the students' original work to them, and just use copies for our documentation. This requires us to make our comments stand out from the original student work on  the assesment documents. The department will get each faculty member yellow hi-lighters to make their comments particularly visible. The department will also get colored stickers to use to mark the good|average|poor student papers.

The materals will be revied periodically twice before the semester ends by John, Toby and the department chair. The reviewers will examine the materials and note which knowlege units they think have been proven so that the professors doing the evaluation will have some feed back from an outside source about what appears to be proven.

John's proposed  a draft of a recitation section syllabus to the group and recieved feed back for changes to make.