Ozarka College
Composition One 
Departmental Assessment Plan 
Course: 	 Comp. I		 									Date:     January 2010   .

Planning	Analysis	

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the course, students should know
	Assessment Sources	Expected Results	Actual Results	Relevant Information	New Strategies/ Adjustments	
1. Use writing to influence other people in various rhetorical situations for various purposes
	 portfolio	 	 Great disparity between my.ozarka grades and portfolio grades	Differences in how we interpret the objectives affects how students understand them and how they write to demonstrate that they understand them.	 	
2.  Develop flexible strategies (including collaborative writing) for generating, revising, and proofreading
	 	 	 	 	 	
3.  Write effective essays that exhibit appropriate unity, coherence, support, vocabulary, and the conventions of standard written English.

4.  Demonstrate critical reading skills
	 	 	 	 	 	
5.  Correctly cite a source to support a point
	 	 	 		 	
6.  Address diversity issues
	 	 	 	 Disagreement on the level at which students should understand diversity—differences in definition of the word—

	 Have some meetings to calibrate our understanding of the term

Reword the objective to more clearly state the scope and level at which students should understand

Assignment where students use a source or two to specifically address a diversity issue.	

Need more time to score essays

Students may get bored with this essay since it’s less creative.

We will work on creating this document throughout the January and February departmental meetings in preparation for the Feb. 27 meeting.